Céline Struger: Steel, Ceramics, and Water as Non-Human Archives

Vienna-based artist Céline Struger combines archaic ceramic heads with industrial steel and water to explore non-human agency and material memory. Her sculptures, such as EQUALIZER I and II, mount rough, excavated-looking ceramic faces on steel pipes through which water flows, suggesting that sites and objects retain spirit beyond human use. Works like TROSTBLUMEN / Solace Flowers (2025) feature rusting steel panels with phosphorescent pigment that glow in darkness, while TRANSVERSE ORIENTATION (2025) runs water-filled trays across a threshold. MOTH AS IN MOTHER II (2025) presents a stoneware profile on a black steel rod. Struger's method treats rust, ceramic, and steel as carriers of inherent information, grounding themes of post-capitalism, mythology, and collective consciousness in material decisions rather than stated positions. Her recent exhibition Spiritual Warfare took place at ADA artistic dynamic association in 2025.