Kate Newby’s site-specific work sees the transit zone in front of the Museum Brandhorst as a place of permanent change. Like a sculptural drawing in the landscape, her intervention anything, anything resists the monumental and the closed, and understands public space as a place of interwoven stories, times and contradictions.

Around 1,000 bricks fit into the green strip between the museum building and the walkway of the Türkenstraße in two more than 80-metre-long lines. Opened in the context of the exhibition, Carrying, the intervention can be experienced for 12 months and thus a complete annual cycle in public space.

Before the burning process, Newby worked the bricks: traces she observed in the metropolitan area, she translated into the clay through drawings, recesses and patterns—partly with shards of glass that are inseparably fused with the material. Small pieces of landscape now collect rainwater, dirt and objects brought up by the wind—artifacts that document the impermanence and the social texture of the place.

The intervention was created in 2024 for the Berlin monastery ruins and finds a new form in Munich. Running towards Walter De Maria’s sculpture Large Red Sphere (2002/10) in the Türkentor, it resists the monumental and the enclosed. Nestled in the ground along the Türkenstraße, the work is reminiscent of canal gutters and refers to the never-realised waterway project of the Türkengraben, which gave the street its name.