Chapter 1. Between Architecture and Artistic Practice.

Stefan Brüggemann’s studio and residency in Ibiza unfolds as an extension of the artist’s practice itself, where architecture, landscape and artistic thought intersect within a highly personal environment. Conceived as a place for living, working and gathering, the project operates between domestic space and artistic infrastructure, constructing a landscape shaped as much by atmosphere as by material form.

Designed by Mexican architect Alberto Kalach as his first European project, the house establishes a close relationship with the surrounding pine forest and Mediterranean landscape. Rather than positioning architecture as an isolated object within nature, the project creates a continuous dialogue between interior and exterior space, where light, vegetation and changing environmental conditions become part of the experience itself.

As Stefan Brüggemann describes: “The house was the first European project of the Mexican architect Alberto Kalach and he designed this room with lots of little windows that connect it to the pine forest and the environment outside. It’s a site-specific art installation, featuring the words from my poems inscribed in gold leaf onto the walls, and played over speakers in a recording voiced by Iggy Pop.”

Commissioned to document the project, Daniel Schäfer Studio developed a photographic body of work exploring the relationship between architecture, artistic practice and landscape throughout the site. Rather than approaching the commission as a conventional architectural project, the work focused on constructing a visual narrative capable of translating the spatial and atmospheric qualities of the place.

Moving through interiors, artworks, landscape fragments and shifting Mediterranean light conditions, the photographic work traces the relationship between inhabited space and artistic presence. Over time, the project developed into an evolving visual archive documenting not only architecture itself, but also the conditions surrounding its use: rhythm, encounters and ways of living.

Beyond documentation, the project explores the relationship between image and atmosphere, constructing a photographic language situated between editorial observation and spatial interpretation.

Our sincere thanks to Stefan Brüggemann for his trust and generosity in opening the doors to a place where living, working and artistic practice unfold as part of the same conversation.

» Continue reading Chapter 2 “On Architecture and Transformation through Artistic Practice.”
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PROJECT INFORMATION.
Commissioned by Stefan Brüggemann
Photography © Daniel Schäfer Studio
Architecture by Alberto Kalach
Ibiza · Spain

Published in Wallpaper* · HTSI · AD Germany · MANERA Magazine, among others.