MUNICH.- Six artists – Phyllida Barlow, Alexandra Bircken, Michael Beutler, Vincent Fecteau, Anita Leisz, and Kimberly Sexton – illustrate the broad spectrum of contemporary sculpture. Their works share an artistic process, which is sparked and formulated by the materials used. The objects are characterized by the acts executed during production: the enveloping, tearing, folding, bending and compressing of the materials involved. They also have a reserved to humorous eccentricity and a love of experimentation in common. Since the 1960s, artists have increasingly distanced themselves from the autonomous sculpture. Artists like Richard Serra and Robert Morris confronted the artwork as a commercial object with the process and act of its creation. This ambivalent approach to the object found its continuation in institutional critique and contextual art. Today artists no longer consider these act as ends in themselves, but they select these rather with regard to their social and cult