The EINSTELLUNGSRAUM with its year subject OTTOMOTOR takes up an explosive theme with the dialog between technic and art ant the topic performance  STOFFWECHSEL (metabolism). Matter and metabolism do not only exist as natural scientific but also as central very own problems of art ever since classical times. According to Plotin art only evolves in mastering of the matter through the idea, The spiritual transformation process. Uwe Ochsler delivers with his work an example for STOFFWECHSEL (metabolism) in art. Alone the title of the work STOFFWECHSELSTOFF (matter of metabolism) - a play with words - hints ironically to the process of transformation. Today we can personally on the spot see for ourselves, that in the six weeks since the opening a few processes of metabolism on different levels has occured - from soil to plant, in the plant, from plant to human, in the human himself - and that visible changes have happened. The almost ninety small pots with seedlings of the room installation, which initially appeared minima- listically like a flower wallpaper, have developed into pitturesk objects. the different herbs have grown and bloom in their individual shapes. They show themselves now as an alive  each one-of-a-kind art object on their pedestals. Natur now indeed has seized possession of the former plant store. Now in  even larger contrast are the opulent plants to the text plaques of the automobil area which were alloted by the visitors, which can again be exchanged today. Also the participants of the opening by having had their most recent meal have experienced  a process of have - by having their last meal - experienced a process of incorporation, a metabolism with a burning process and the transformation into a burst of energy in whatever direction. by this the work has not yet finished though, but after today's meal you can purchase for a token an object with pedestal and text plate and the work changes from the central exhibition room to different places, for which you now take responsibiliy for the further course of the process of transformation. The term STOFF (matter) has found its use in the german language only in the 17th century in round- about ways and gained use as a synonym for the latin materia, in german Materie matter), Material (material), Rohstoff (raw material), Werkstoff(raw material). In arthistory the work of Monika Wagner about "The material  in art. Another story of the modern"3 proved, that in regards of material in art not only solid matter count but also what serves the artist through head or hand work for further develop- ment.  3  Wagner, Monika: The material  in art. Another story of the modern. MŸnchen 2002.  See to: Wagner, Monika and RŸbel, Dietmar: Material in Kunst und Alltag. (Material in Art and Common.) Hamburger Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte I, Berlin 2002, S. VII ff.

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