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OOOSB Art Basel, 2025 | alexander levy, Berlin, 2024

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Over the Ocean the Other Sun is Burning, Installation view at Art Basel, 2025, compressed wood chips, taxidermied animals, fish, octopus, corals, sponges, plants, textiles, brass beads, brass frame, 148 cm x 380 cm. Photo: Andrea Rossetti, 2025.

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Oceanic Solar Eclipse Board, 2024, compressed wood strands, taxidermied animals, plants, textiles, food and brass frame, 169 x 120 cm. Photo: Julius von Bismarck.

The title of Julius von Bismarck’s new work series OOOSB is a play on the acronym of Oriented Strand Board, OSB, a cheap building material, and the post-humanist concept of object-oriented ontology, OOO. OOO describes humans, non-humans and immaterial constructs, for instance concepts, as objects that are only partially perceptible due to the limits of perception. The underlying hypothesis that every object has its own reality, independent of humans, allows for a conception of existence in which human supremacy is precarious.

In his OOOSB series, von Bismarck presses animals, plants and vestiges of civilisation into a mass of wood shavings using heavy industrial compression techniques. The artist presses worlds in which the history of the material merges with that of the pictorial worlds into the panels.


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OOOSB, installation view at alexander levy, Berlin 2024. Photo: Marcus Schneider, 2024.

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Organic Story Board, 2024, compressed wood strands, taxidermied animals, plants, textiles, plastic bottle and brass frame, 145 cm x 108 cm. Photo: Marcus Schneider, 2024.

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Optimistic Scenario Board, 2024, compressed wood strands, taxidermied animals, plants, textiles and brass frame, 145 cm x 108 cm. Photo: Marcus Schneider, 2024.