Timo Demollin

Timo Demollin considers production as a site of economic, social, and historical defiance. Their context-driven installations, sculptures, and publications often draw from structural contradictions in class society, tracing how authority over resources and public goods circulates through materials, objects, spaces, and the abstractions they generate. Where such flows meet contact or resistance, Demollin sets up collaborations in local contexts, suggesting how co-producers and the public might participate in or reorient them. These inquiries extend to institutions, infrastructures, and other centres of power that are nominally public yet often privately administered, prompting questions about governance, funding, capture, and control. For Demollin, these tensions define what they describe as art’s uneasy mandate as a social good: the multidirectional pull between its transformative aspirations, the pressures of responsibilisation under neoliberal imperatives, and the material complicities that both sustain and complicate art’s capacity for critique.