21Ain Soph

The work consists of a base plate made of black granite, the sculpture of Silvia Fohrer made of sodalite rock, "rock, itself enough, equal to the nature of the divine", and the sculpture of Rudolf J. Kaltenbach made of Turkish marble. The marble is worked in the form of a vertical infinity sign. The sign of infinity is also found in the sodalite: in perforations in the stone. Time sleeves are embedded in them, with personal, topical texts by notable contemporary witnesses to evolution. "Ain Soph" is Hebrew אין סוף ēyn sōf and means "it has no end". The term comes from Kabbalistic mysticism and refers to the infinite, the "primordial ground of all things." The spiritual and sensual worlds emerge by emanation from the divine One. This is self-creation or self-revelation.

Silvia Fohrer was born in 1956 in Aschersleben in the Harz Mountains and grew up in the Ruhr area. She briefly attended the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung in Wiesbaden before moving to Berlin in 1983 to make object art. She began her organic - minimalist works with hard stone in 1993 during a symposium of the Berlin University of the Arts (HdK) in the Fichtelgebirge. After a working stay in Austria, she organized symposia in Berlin and Brandenburg together with Rudolf J. Kaltenbach and regularly participated in them herself. Her sculptures can be seen in Germany, Austria and Poland.

Rudolf J. Kaltenbach was born in Hochheim am Main in 1956. In 1986 he completed his first degree in design at the Fachhochschule Wiesbaden with a diploma, and from 1989 to 1993 he studied stone sculpture at the HdK in Berlin. Since then, his abstract, later concrete works have been exhibited in public spaces in several European countries, in addition to regular solo and collective exhibitions. He participated in numerous international sculpture symposia, in 2006 his dimensionally largest work outside Germany was created: "Reconciliation", with 30 tons of stone in Ostrava, Czech Republic. He won a number of competitions and awards. In 2021 he received the medal "Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande" (Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon).

Fohrer and Kaltenbach also focus on artistic project work and socio-cultural initiatives, as well as work on the culture of remembrance. Their joint international sculptors' symposium "Steine ohne Grenzen" (Stones without Borders) has been included in the " Straße des Friedens-Straße der Skulpturen in Europa" (Road of Peace Street of Sculptures in Europe) since 2012. It is based on the idea of the Jewish painter and sculptor Otto Freundlich, who was murdered in the German concentration camp Sobibor/Poland in 1943. Since 2001, 200 works by the artists have been created in the landscape and urban space with the same vision. In 2018, the project received the award " Großer Blauer Bär" (Big Blue Bear) from the European Commission and the Senate of Berlin.

The sculpture was acquired in 2023 with funds from the LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin for the sculpture park.