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From the exhibition Comedown 23.8.–28.9.2025 at NSFW Gallery (Gothenburg, Sweden)
About the artist
Madlen Hirtentreu (1993) is an Estonian multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses sculpture and site-specific installations. She holds an MA in Sculpture and Installation Art from the Estonian Academy of Arts and a BA in Visual Communication from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan.
The core of Hirtentreu’s work lies in the exploration of memory, history, and materiality, through which she dissolves the boundaries between archaeology, speculative fiction, and industrial aesthetics. Her sculptures and installations operate simultaneously as historical excavations and as conjectural visions of the future. Her works often take the form of ghostly, hybrid, and fragmented bodies or abandoned structures, evoking the sensation of something that once existed but is no longer fully present. They frequently point to absence, erosion, or a lost presence. Hirtentreu offers an alternative perspective on history, viewing it not as a fixed past but as a continually evolving process of interpretation. She approaches objects and materials as fossils of an unknown future.
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