Verena Issel's installations feel friendly and inviting, they are soft, round, colorful--we cannot but smile when we look at them. The sculptures and pictures she makes for them are replicas, sometimes laced with irony, of familiar objects from nature and culture--palm trees, ancient columns, and more--which she manufactures out of materials that surround us in everyday life and the domestic sphere such as an old bag, foamed plastic fragments, or...