Ulm minster is located in Ulm, Germany – the hometown of one of Humans since 1982’s founding artists. The church replica itself is a found object, initially created as a recreational passion project by an 80-year-old modeler from Germany. The original maker had already sold the church to a Mr. Frank R. Schindler of Neu-Ulm, who agreed to pass it over to Humans since 1982 to create Rocking Church.

Now transformed through its incorporation into an assemblage sculpture, Rocking Church bears surrealist qualities and lacks fixed meaning. It brings together two seemingly discordant symbols – the church and a child’s toy – to encourage multiple implications and explore the potential of playfulness in relation to artistic creations. Combining skilled craftsmanship with the intervention of an artist studio, Rocking Church collapses assumptions about the hierarchies of making in favour of celebrating the curiosity and perseverance required to complete any creative project from concept through to realisation.