The House In The Woods

Now here's dark fun; five Germans in a deep forest, re-examining the Nordic myths of their childhood

Now here's dark fun; five Germans in a deep forest, re-examining the Nordic myths of their childhood. Five young sculptors from a land still 30 per cent forested. From the dense shuddering myths of the Hartz mountains, the pantheistic fairytales of the Brothers Grimm and Joseph Beuys planting 7,000 oaks.

Stephan Balkenhol's works are like those of an honest woodcarver whittling for a favoured child. Six rough bears on four-foot columns are called Six Bears. On stools, two painted males face a globe. One has wings, the other tail and horns. This is Angel, Devil, World. A woman with a cow's head is titled Woman With Cowhead. Wiebke Siem's various Pelze could be worn by Maurice Zendak's creatures.

Martin Honert's Foto, a carving of a child dwarfed at table, silent in a private world from which the rest of the family has been literally excised, is terrifyingly disturbing, but no more so than Mariele Neudecker's splendid Fog, a glass cube filled with murky water through which tortuous rocks and a deserted threemaster which might have carried Dracula to Whitby can just be seen.

Runs until October 3rd.