Solo show. In a city of residual surfaces and transient architectures, Aubrey Theobald’s latest exhibition at Backhaus Projects, You Left This / Geh Nicht, probes the porous boundaries of domesticity, surveillance, and habituation. Through a rigorously process-driven practice spanning sculpture, video, and installation, Theobald constructs an affective space where the familiar—home, caretaking, the body—becomes entangled in the uneasy mechanics of longing and exclusion within the built environment. 

-Yasmeen Nematt Alla (@yasmeennematt) 

Aubrey Theobald (b. 1996, she/her) is an interdisciplinary installation artist born in Cleveland, OH and based in Berlin. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Sculpture and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati DAAP, with minors in Art History and Critical Visions (2018). Her work has been exhibited internationally and within the U.S with a focus on the industrial Midwest, including Cranbrook Art Museum, The Carnegie, Stone House Art Gallery, and Ruth G. Pearlman Gallery. Theobald has independent and collaborative publications held in the New York Library, Franklin Furnace Archive and Printed Matter. 

Notably, Theobald is a 2024-25 Fulbright International Sculpture Research Fellow in Berlin, Germany. She is conducting new artistic research within the Raumstrategien department at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, with additional affiliation at The Brandenburg Center for Film and Media Studies (ZeM). 

Open: Daily 18.4-21.4, 12:00-18:00