GUERILLA DOMUS Stop being illuminated by your phone.
The First Relic: March 2026
Everything began with an image. I finished it in mid-March 2026, before Good Friday: the Prediger on the square outside, dressed in a...
Artwork Specifications:
Medium: Site-specific spatial installation, mixed-reality performance, and conceptual relics Location & Scale: Nave and west portal of the...
The beginning: Good Friday 2026
The work began with my own body. On the night of Good Friday, I ran 20 kilometres, threw my smartphone away before entering the church, and...
In Memoriam Franz Huber:
On 27 March 2026, one week before Good Friday, I showed Guerilla Domus to the sculptor, painter and poet Franz Huber. He saw what this...
The ritual: a coffin for our screens
Stop being illuminated by your phone At the west portal of the oldest church in my city, I placed a coffin. Visitors were invited to let...
The Space: Turning the Church Around
For the opening, I turned the church around. The audience sat with their backs to the altar, facing west: the organ, the rose window, the...
The performance: conducting the invisible
Dressed in a white chef’s jacket, white gloves and a VR headset, I conducted Vivaldi’s Winter, played on organ and violin and joined live...
The Conductor’s Jacket
A chef’s jacket, chosen on purpose: abroad, many Italians found their place in the kitchen. Here the work garment becomes a conductor’s...
Behind the Headset
Opening night, after the performance: the chef’s jacket, the headset, and the oldest Italian gesture there is. Il Pittore Immateriale with...
The light diptych: Day and Night.
Two suspended light boxes show the Prediger, a baroque building on the square outside, transformed by AI. Its facade takes on the marble of...
Hand spattered in liturgical violet and gold
Using the schizzato technique from Apulian ceramics.
The light diptych: The reverse sides
Hand spattered in liturgical violet and gold, using the schizzato technique from Apulian ceramics. Machine in front, hand behind. During...
The Pietà: A Madonna Above the Square
The Pietà runs through the whole work. She stands at the centre of the light diptych. She floated as a digital Madonna above the...
The Alchemy: Casting the Relics at Night
Night, a kitchen, a white chef’s jacket. Liquid soap is poured into empty milk cartons and slowly closes over discarded phones. Soap...
Unpacking the Apostles
Old iPhones from a coffin in a Romanesque church, cast in soap. A material that sweats, changes and fades, the opposite of what...
Matthew: The Immaterial Relic
Apostle VIII exists only as an image. It shows my own orange iPhone 17 Pro, the first phone laid in the coffin at the opening. But there is...
The relics: The Twelve Apostles
From the collected phones, I cast twelve soap blocks, each holding a smartphone, from clear to opaque. Thomas is almost blind. Judas is...
The relics: The Twelve Apostles
They now rest on blue velvet in the church, where the coffin once stood.
The relics: On Blue Velvet
As in Leonardo, the centre stays empty. Through the gap: the altar.
The Apostles Were Already There
Above the west gallery, facing the audience all evening, the apostles look down from the arcades, painted in 1878/79 by Carl Dehner...
Obituary: In Silent Mourning
A broken screen, a last heartbeat. The mourning card read: “iPhone. It gave everything until the final beat. Resurrection takes place at...
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The pilgrimage: Rome and Cupertino
Two relics leave for the two great centres of belief of our time. Peter, a black iPhone 3GS, goes to the Vatican on All Saints’...
Finissage: A Silent Ending
On 31 October the exhibition closed without a ceremony. No speeches, no audience: only the church, the relics and the candles painted by...
Guerilla Domus
What remains During the opening, my nine year old daughter took the microphone and said: “There is a piece of God in every person.” She...
Resonance
SWR and Tagesschau reported on the project. A letter on the work appeared in DIE ZEIT. The Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy...
Epilogue: Apple Store
October 2026. In an Apple Store, on the newest iPhone on display, I played the film that started it all: Stop being illuminated by your...
The opening: full film
The complete opening of Guerilla Domus on 18 September 2026 at the Johanniskirche, Schwäbisch Gmünd.