MUNICH, GERMANY.- Osram Art Projects presents Seven Screens, on view through October 24, 2007. After the intermezzo of the US artist Diana Thater at the Munich Opera Festival - in collaboration with the Bavarian National Theater and the Pinakothek der Moderne - we are looking forward to continue the project of the Munich art duo Haubitz+Zoche from 1 August on.

The title of the video installation by Haubitz+Zoche is “2027”. This relates to the year in which Fritz Lang’s film “Metropolis” was set. Metropolis was released precisely 100 years ago in 1927, a thought-provoking period of time considering the various nightmare visions of the future that we all face today.

A reference to Lang’s urban dystopia that finds resonance today are the slow floating dream-like images of various model houses. Here there is a link between revolutionary architecture, modern functionalism and post-modern use of quotations; but only for it all to resolve in diffused blue water, without time or place. The same unreal topsy-turvy space is shared by the swimmers who seem to be looking for a firm hold in this weightless world and for control amidst the uncontrolled.

In all their allusions Haubitz+Zoche avoid direct references to current ecological, social or cultural issues. Concepts that appear time and again however include resolution, destabilization and misalignment - in form and content. Their work transcends all these references. At least as important are the specific location and its particular conditions. The intrinsic aesthetic value is also important – images of suggestive beauty that create such a hypnotic attraction that it is easy to forget which horizon is real and which levels still have to be conquered.

Haubitz+Zoche (Sabine Haubitz, born in 1959 and Stefanie Zoche, born in 1965) have been working together since 1998. Sabine Haubitz studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1988 she received the Kodak New Talent Award and in 1996 the Project Scholarship from the city of Munich. Stefanie Zoche studied at Middlesex Polytechnic in London. From 1995 to 1997 she had a scholarship from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture. For their Sinai Hotels collection of photographs Haubitz+Zoche received the 2006/07 German Photographic Book Prize.