Mathias Weinfurter is the current Charlotte Prinz scholarship holder of the City of Darmstadt. He has been living in Darmstadt since fall 2023 as part of the scholarship. His first walk took him to Kranichstein, where he enthusiastically explored the high-rise housing estate. This estate, a striking example of post-war social housing, has played an important role in the urban development of Darmstadt. It represents the functional approach of the 1960s and 1970s, which aimed to efficiently accommodate growing populations. Weinfurter himself grew up in a similar housing estate and is very enthusiastic about this architecture.

Weinfurter's upcoming exhibition at the Kunsthalle Darmstadt is entitled „Solitär“ (Solitaire) - like the well-known card game that was once played alone at the kitchen table before being transferred to the PC by software manufacturer Microsoft in 1989. In architecture, the term “solitaire” refers to a building that stands alone or stands out from its urban surroundings. The word is derived from the Latin solitarius, which means “the lonely one”.

In his spatial installations, Weinfurter often works with industrially manufactured mass products. Through targeted interventions, he breaks with the norm or plays with repetition as an artistic strategy to give the objects a new meaning. In Solitär, he allows concrete slabs, whose surface corresponds to the paneling of prefabricated buildings, to “jump” through the exhibition space.