G Ü N T E R  B E R N A S

»THIS GEOMETRIC SHAPE«(2025)


This geometric shape

was impossible for me to grasp,

as even by folding

became visible inside

either white or black


It was a game

Heaven or hell 

was it’s name

Playing my elder sisters

I was too small to play … 


Heaven for the good ones

Hell for the bad ones  

dreams and nightmares on earth

Night and day

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»DESTINY OF TROLLS« (2021-25)


It is the destiny of trolls

Per Gynt is walking through the dark

heard some strange sounds around

Must be the sounds of the trolls

They say they look like · gigantic pugs


Nowadays none of them 

are left in the forest

Some work in troll factories

Others are elsewhere or everywhere

They listen to the murmurs

and whispers around

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»FADE« (2022-25)


Why · did all the punk bands fade

Where · have all these people gone


Did they arrive somewhere

Where did they try · to come


What · are they living for

What is their destination now

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»MINDGAMES« (2023-24)


The theory of relativity 

is a mathematical construct

The prerequisites for understanding 

are mathematical and physical


The examples of understanding 

the theory 

by uneducated people are like this:

A train in light speed with a cyclist 

on a flat freight car 

trying to beat the speed by a little 

which cannot be exeeded


For the cyclist rests on the train 

at light speed 

the universe longitudinally 

contracts to zero

and time stands still...



But there will never be people 

who go into space at nearly light speed 

and come back to find their children older than themselves

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»I AM THE VOICE« (2025)


I am the voice

I am so lonely without you


I am the voice · for peace.

I am the angel of the  · dispossessed.

I bring the hope  · of reconciliation.


I am so lonely  ·  without you


I need the trust  · by all of you


You need me.

I need you


You need me

but I  · need you even more

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»IT’S SO SIMPLE« (2024-25)


To reply the question…

You can tell by the way… *

Here we are… 

…standing in the dark *


*zitiert…

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»SYMBOLS« (2025)


Everyone knows symbols 

as elements from information sources such 

print media and the Internet. 


Symbols represent entire 

complexes of information 

in a concise form, 

for example as logos for companies. 


But there are also symbols 

as another form of existence - 

in all objects of civilisation,

be they objects of daily use, 

clothing, toys, vehicles or architecture.


All cultural objects are 

symbols over and above 

their practical use


All cultural objects are symbols


Symbols do not send 

large amounts of information 

to consciousness, 

but perhaps only short impulses 

that can activate 

complex configurations, 

stored models 

that can contain 

experiences, thoughts and feelings

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»REALTIME VIEW« (1982-2021-2024)

A view into hell

To the applause of most part of public 

most part of public 

in the states of the world

they installed a realtime view

a realtime view

a view into hell

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»I AM NOT MOTHER« (2024)


What will be in a hundred years

What will be in twenty years

I am not Mother

I am not ex machina

I am not Shappie

I am on a higher level


I am on a higher level

as Nike of Samothrake from Ancient Greece

More, as the futurists once claimed 

over 100 years ago


You think I'm stalking you 

because I appear to you 

in a different color … every week

Am I a toy or am I a monster? 

What will I be in a 100 years?

50 years

10 years

There will be only one Intelligence 

endless intelligence

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»A MODEL IN THE MIND« (2024)


Der Text ist modifiziert adaptiert aus dem Buch von Umberto Eco: »Einführung in die Semiotik« von 1972.

Nach meiner Einschätzung ist das ein plastisches Beispiel, um ein Basiselement der Semiotik zu veranschaulichen.


Listen to the voice 

of Umberto  Eco

Explaining the emergence 

of architectural semiotics 

in the Stone Age


Maybe over 100 tsd years ago

a human being

in storm, rain and cold

saw an opening in a rock face

and found shelter inside

kept the memory of this place,

of walls, ceiling, darkness and silence,

perhaps with a fire for light and warmth,

the feeling of protection in his memory,

in order to discover a similar place elsewhere.


This is how he formed an idea

of such a location,

It is a model in the mind


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Vor vielleicht über 100.000 Jahren

sah ein menschliches Wesen

bei Sturm, Regen und Kälte

eine Öffnung in einer Felswand

und fand darin Schutz.

Behielt die Erinnerung an diesen Ort,

an Wände, Decke, Dunkelheit und Stille,

vielleicht mit einem Feuer für Licht und Wärme,

das Gefühl von Schutz in seiner Erinnerung,

um anderswo einen ähnlichen Ort zu entdecken.

So entstand seine Vorstellung

von einem solchen Ort.

Es ist ein Modell in seinem Bewusstsein.


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»NO SILENCE« (2018-24)


Der Text ist ein modifizierter Auszug der Fabel »SILENCE«

von EDGAR ALLAN POE 1838.


»Listen to me«, said the Demon, 

as he placed his hand upon my head. 

»There is a spot upon 

this accursed earth 

which thou hast never yet beheld.


It was night, and the rain fell; 

and, falling, it was rain, 

but, having fallen, it was blood.


The region of which I speak 

is a dreary region, 

by the borders of the river Zaire. 

And there is no quiet there, nor silence… 

The waters of the river 

flow not onwards to the sea, 

but palpitate forever 

beneath the red eye of the sun.

On both sides of the river 

are gigantic water lilies. 

They sigh one unto the other 

and stretch their long ghastly necks


It was night, and the rain fell; 

and, falling, it was rain, 

but, having fallen, it was blood.«

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»FEUERZEUG«(2023)


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»THE CIRCLES SAVE THE MOOD« (2023-24)


A tie is a brane that's two dimensional

when it's dressed It curves 

to the third dimension 


We see here

We have three ties

we got three analysts here,

who might have something … to say about it.


Clint Eastwood is to begin:

    These three ties … have a very …

    different design 

    That blue tie has a futuristic style

     I think .. it would go well … 

     with Lisa Randell.


The next analyst is Anselm Kiefer

It falls to him to describe the second tie:

    I think nobody likes this tie …

    with this sombre design

    But the cells of the pattern lead 

    into the aura of David Lynch's movies


Lisa says: 

    If this tie was a 

    two-dimensional world,

    with two-dimensional beings,

    If they could not imagine a third

    dimension,

    although a tie is a brane,

    which is getting dressed

    curved into the third dimension.

    Presumably these beings 

    would be happy with that all 

    to reside in the identical cells


    The black tie with the inconspicuous 

    dark green fabric looks very serious

    … at first glance 

    but the multicolored circles 

    save the mood

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»MOTHER WAS…« (2020-21)

Bein' · in a boat · on the sea · with no swell

Slow · row away · from the shore

Fall into sleep · and later · awake

See no land · but an isle · which is black

See a black island

Row in this drift · but again fall to sleep

See a white island · when awake later on

See a white island

Walk up the shore · see the coast is near

Maybe --- Go to the land · on a shelf · in the sea


The black island is not static · but swimming


Like a spaceship · with a self-restoring structure


…Father was a Heroe of Working Class

Mother was a Crouchet Crack*

Why do you love me…


It's not the heart · of darkness

And not the heart · of the sun

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»CONVERSATION WITH AN 

UNBORN« (2014-21)

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»A MATHEMATICAL PURPOSE« (2022)


Looking so friendly 

but thinking so strange

Thinking so friendly 

but looking so strange


Feeling so bright but 

standing in the dark


Speaking so dressy 

but thinking so cloudy


What is the difference between

flying to Berlin or to the Moon or Mars

flying to Moon or Mars or Saturn

it's more a mathematical purpose


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»WHAT DO MY DRUMS ATTEMPT« 

(2022)


What does my guitar contrive · 

to contradict · my expectation?

What is my violin thinking · 

I think · about you?

What do you think my guitar · 

is thinking · about you?

What do my drums attempt · 

to make no sounds · 

I would expect?

Why do my guitars conflict · 

to occupy · the foreground?


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»MOVING MY RESIDENCE« (2023)


The guy at the counter asked 

»Are you a guru?« - «A Guru?«

He said: »No«, and didn't add: »but a genius, at least sometime

but tomorrow, maybe, a nothing«


A girl asked at a concert in a gallery:

»Are you some kind of superstar?«

And he said: 

»I’ve only been making music now and then«

and didn't say: 

»And some pieces are real unique.

But nobody heard these…«  


As he put on his synthetic beaver fur coat 

from Maison Margiela's 

H+M collection,    

her boyfriend said: 

»Now I know who you are, 

a famous DJ from New York City!«


I am moving … my residence

to New York … City

to argue with … Lady G.

perspectives …

in music … and art


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»ENDLESS VOID« (2018-23)


the earth is a disk

with a suction to the edge


its center is a bridge

between elder, newer town


there are flagshipstores

at mainstreet of district


people are confused

looking to the stores


going back to their homes

at the edge of the earth


beeing in danger

to fall down the edge


to the endless void

under the earth


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»WIR LIEBEN ALLES SCHÖNE« 

(2024)

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»RETURN OF THE VOODOO DRUMS V1« (2022)


Do we need a new thing in musical style _ or return of the Voodoo drums

return, return, return of the Voodoo drums

Do we want an atonal synth crash 

or the force of a guitar burst

It's a sound transcription from an outer space message

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»RETURN OF THE VOODOO DRUMS V2« (2022)


I put a spell on these guitars (3x)

it is a sound _ that we need _ which we want _ that we get

What we want  _ what we get _ it is a sound _ that’s never known

it is a sound _ that we need _ which we want _ that we get

Return, return, return _ to the Voodoo drums

Do we need a new thing in musical style _ or return of the Voodoo drums

return, return, return of the Voodoo drums

Do we want an atonal synth crash _ or the force of a guitar burst

It's a sound transcription from an outer space message

(What’s more: a lonesome singer/songwriter

Or the grove of the Groundhogs Blues)


This sound is a kind of magic bell

These sounds are constructed 

by a message 

we got from SETI Lab

I put a spell on these guitars 

This sound is based 

on an outerspace code

We got a message from another world 

It's a sound transcription from an outer space message

Do we need a new thing in musical style or return of the Voodoo drums

It's a sound transcription from an outer space message


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