The ordering of things “ by Clemens Niedenthal“ , Berliner Zeitung 26.01.2005 

In the beginning there was a picture from a book. At the end there were 70 picnic baskets in a period apartment at Berlin’s Schlesisches Tor. Large and small. Elaborate and simple. Some were local, produced by VEB Kleineisenwaren Dreko, a manufacturer of the old East Germany based in Steinbach-Hallenberg, while others came from as far away as China, Japan or the USA. Architect Alexandra Erhard brought together the collection in order to give a sense of structure to the peripheral articulations of day-to-day life. She turns the picnic basket, an essential accessory of nomadic leisure culture, into a serial icon of the Pop Age. (...) These picnic baskets have meanwhile also made their way into the museum. After the summer 2004 show at the V17 Gallery on Berlin’s Veteranenstrasse, the Berlin Museum of Miscellanea expressed its interest in the collection. The boxes have also been exhibited at the Design Museum in Zürich.”