SCULPTURE

OAK, »HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN [Walther PPK_nitted]«, Mixed Media, 2025

The white crocheted pistol titled Happiness is a Warm Gun is referring to the Beatles‘ song of the same name from 1968 (The White Album). The title of the work quotes a phrase from an American gun magazine, which John Lennon adopted as a bitterly ironic comment on American gun culture. The textile covering contrasts the weapon’s inherent aggressiveness with the apparent harmlessness of the crochet work—a visual shift that underscores the ambiguity of the title. Beyond the critique of violence, the metaphor of the “warm gun” also carries a sexual undertone: Lennon himself spoke of a possible allusion to ecstasy and desire. The artwork thus points to the ambivalence of happiness—caught between longing and danger, between comfort and destruction. The pistol—the iconic Walther PPK—is presented in this piece at approximately four times life size (cf. The Beatles). This scale distortion renders it unusable as a real object while simultaneously making it more monstrous. The seemingly innocuous warming crochet covering further subverts this condition and intensifies the tension between threat and protection, intimacy and violence.

OAK, »What The Shit Is Going On? [6.8.1945 // 3.9.2017]«, Mixed Media, 2024
On 6 August 1945, the US forces dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima to end the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of the bomb. Since 1945, over 2000 nuclear tests have been carried out by eight nations worldwide. An explosive force equivalent to around 34,000 Hiroshima bombs has been released in the process and into our atmosphere. On 3 September 2017, a nuclear bomb was detonated (unannounced) for test purposes as part of North Korea‘s nuclear weapons programme. Its explosive power was ten times that of the Hiroshima bomb. For every unannounced nuclear test by North Korea, the military defence services of the superpowers USA and Russia only have a maximum of six minutes to decide whether an attack situation exists and whether a nuclear counter-strike must therefore be carried out.
»The potentially most dangerous object on our planet. Officially referred to as the „Presidential Emergency Satchel,“ this atomic briefcase enables the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear  strike. It allows for the launch of individual strategic missiles or even a global nuclear attack. In American parlance, this powerful case is euphemistically called „The [Nuclear] Football.“ 
Since the 1960s, this bulging leather briefcase has always remained close  to the president—never more than an arm‘s length away—under the watchful eye of a specially assigned military aide. A briefcase as a symbol of power and global deterrence, balancing politics and responsibility—“The Football“ is by no means just a piece of luggage but rather the control unit for a potential worldwide nuclear Armageddon, ultimately dependent on the decision of a single individual. 

OAK, »Extinction to go / The Football«, 2024/25 , Mixed Media

A.I. aided sculpture, Laser-Stereolithography, Photopolymer handpainted, 499,77mm x 439,31mm x 292,12mm (Ph. Igor Panitz)

OAK, »THE ARK (STRANDED)«, Aasee, 2025-2027, Mixed Media

project for Skulpturen Projekte Münster 2027,  

OAK, »TEA PARTY« (Blue Swords on white gold), Mixed Media, 2025, 80 x 70 x 45 cm


OAK, »THE GORDIAN KNOT« (And Our Future Is Rosy), Installation, 2023

OAK, »somewHERE«, (ON-Schaltung), Neon-Installation, 2015/2017

OAK, »nowHERE«, dreifach alternierende Schaltung, Neon-Installation, 2015/2023

OAK, »elsewHERE«, (dreifach alternierende Schaltung), Neon-Installation, 2015/2023

OAK, »Standing on the shoulder of giant«, (Me & myminiself) Still life, 2019

OAK, »My Last Cigarette (Definitely Maybe)«, 3D Print, Objektkasten 20x20cm, 2020

OAK, »Become the one you want to be«, 3D Print, Installation, 2022

OAK, »Memento Mori (Final Stage)«, 3D Print, Objektkasten 20 x 20cm, 2019

OAK, »Brain Enlarger«, (Atelieransicht), Ureol/MdF, 1996, 36x47x36 cm 

Skulptur für Debutanten-Ausstellung "Einatmen – Ausatmen", Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart

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