​The installation “Clique” consists of five objects – The Caring One, The Crouched One, The Reliable One, The Striking One, and The Reeling One. Through her work, Mimi Kohler raises poetic questions about the contrasts between nature and technology, organic and technological warmth, the interaction with life and nature, and the dynamics of human social structures. Furthermore, there is an intellectual connection to the artistic concept of estrangement, as exemplified by Meret Oppenheim in her work “Breakfast in Fur,” a key piece of Surrealism. An echo of Picasso’s Bathers can also be felt here – body and community appear in a new order. (Text: Jan-Hendrik Pelz)

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The work Clique was first shown in the exhibition Echopraxia at Museum Schloss Untergröningen. Thematically, the exhibition engaged with the idea of the echo. Does an echo resound throughout art history? What inspires, who copies? The exhibition aimed to highlight the artistic inspiration that artists draw from the works of others - whether from contemporaries or artists of times long past. Image quotations are a well-known method that has been used in artistic practice for centuries.