Valentina Teinitzer
Soft Construct

PARRI BLANK presents Soft Construct, the first solo exhibition by Valentina Teinitzer. The immersive installation transforms the gallery into a botanical field of movement, gesture, and stillness. At its heart are sweeping formations of olive branches, up to 2.5 metres high, inscribing themselves into the space like organic architectures and forming a continuous landscape. Since antiquity, the olive tree has stood as a symbol of peace, resilience, and healing – here becoming the vessel for a poetic material language between ritual, sculpture, and a gesture toward the landscape.

Visitors move through a floral environment that seeks not to represent, but to touch. Beauty emerges not as a decorative attribute, but as an ethical stance – a way to cultivate resilience and renew one’s rootedness in nature.

Visitors move through a floral environment that seeks not to represent, but to touch. Beauty emerges not as a decorative attribute, but as an ethical stance – a way to cultivate resilience and renew one’s rootedness in nature.

Teinitzer describes the project as an immersive experience – a botanical daydream that leads into the collective sensibility of the southern European summer: childhood memories of endless days under pines and olive trees, the stillness of an afternoon in the grove, the light dancing through the leaves, the shimmer of heat, the pause of the soul. This reconnection with the essential – nature, stillness, memory – and the resilience it fosters are more vital than ever in a world that is often too loud, too fast, and too functional.

Alongside the installation, the exhibition also presents individual sculptural works made from newly preserved natural materials. Soft Construct is both an homage to the ephemeral power of floral art and a statement on impermanence, care, and the quiet strength that arises from beauty and a relationship with the natural world.

Simultaneously on view in the showroom: works by Philipp Haager.