Sies + Höke

Bild 1–2, 4–5: Courtesy Sies + Höke
Bild 3: Copyright the artist; Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; Photo Tino Kukulies

Peppi Bottrop’s work rarely sits still. Circles, arcs, and gestural marks cut, scored, and scratched into the copper gather into movements charged with physical intensity. Each line seems to record the force of its making. Alongside these are sculptures incorporating skulls—a quiet counterpoint. Emit Remmus. Fire Walk with Me carries different landscapes within it. Bottrop’s roots in the Ruhr region, Germany’s historic center of coal mining and heavy industry, surface in the industrial materials and rusty metal. But these materials now point elsewhere. What once recalled coal, steel, and the…