Harting Deutschland

Margrit Harting leaves no doubt about this: "Business needs culture. It needs it where it is, at its locations." Therefore, together with her husband Dietmar Harting, she set the course for an extraordinary redesign of the sales headquarters of the global company in Minden. A modern building complex was created that was designed by the Swiss star architect Mario Botta and has long since shaped the cityscape of Minden. From here, products such as connectors for energy and data transmission, for example in mechanical engineering, rail technology, wind turbines or telecommunications providers, go all over the world. These technical objects and scenes from the world of work are recorded by two 28 square meter, kinetic-looking light art works by the Düsseldorf photo artist Stefan Hoderlein, whom Samuelis Baumgarte Art Consulting commissioned with an individual design.

Hundreds of photos have been stitched together to form the two large objects that resemble collages. In addition to the company's products, everyday items such as telephone receivers, brushes, shaving brushes and hair dryers can be found here. The ensembles are alternately immersed in red, blue or green light by means of colored fluorescent tubes. An overwhelming impression for every visitor or employee who enters the entrance area of ​​the building. The plant was specially developed for the family-owned company HARTING.

Born in Düsseldorf in 1960, Stefan Hoderlein studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, among others with Bernhard Becher and the video artist Nam June Paik, and in London. With his photographic work, Hoderlein mostly leaves the level of pure documentation, connects them with one another in room installations, video productions or slide series and thus gives them the quality of movement and their very own rhythm. The Hoderlein property in Minden represents two important building blocks for HARTING's success: this is where tradition and innovation meet. According to Margrit Harting, Hoderlein has created a piece of work that "artistically expresses the company's professionalism and clear commitment to its origins and future".