Das Fundbüro

This is lost property, it is collected on some shelves on the left-hand side as you walk in, on the right is a large mural of Daria who lives here. The colour scheme is red and black and white, cosy, fashionable, quite like how a young girl might choose her bedroom to be. This is Stephanie Bothor’s project, beginning in 2004 for 5 years, she will develop the character of Daria, her thoughts, stories, memories in drawings, little sculptures, paintings, books. Born out of a collection of people’s lost property, her story evolves in the space. Fusing studio and fantasy at once, the intensity growing with the visitors who come by, Daria being a fracturing and melting together of us all. The artist worksin the space, eager to engage with visitors and discover something about who has come to look too. You are Daria’s guests, as are the other artists who are invited to intervene in the space, holding exhibitions of their own.