Anne Imhof

„Imagine“ offers no reassurance.

 

„Imagine“ is full of built-up heat, bottlenecks, and feverish abstraction.

After Kerstin Stakemeier

© Anne Imhof, „Untitled (Imagine)“, 2019, Aluminium, acrylic, 3 parts, each: 210 x 150 cm

© Anne Imhof, „Untitled (Imagine)“, 2019, Aluminium, acrylic, 210 x 150 cm

Although Anne Imhof creates and stages Performances, she composes them as images.
After  “For The Grace Of Thoughts“ DLDconference18, Anne Imhof, artist, & Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Anne Imhof is being represented by the Gallery Buchholz, Berlin and New York.

Fabian Knecht

„Bruch”

 

Fabian Knecht creates a piece of a brick wall on the frozen Baltic Sea. By choosing a landscape-like emptiness as well as an icy grey surface Knecht emphasises his ecological and political message which we are able to grasp with our visual imagination. The wall, which represents solidity and the limitation of boundary, will be deprived of its solid footing. The frosted surface is about to melt, the wall will finally sink into the sea.

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Fabian Knecht’s sculptures, compositions and photographs are the result of a deeply conceptual and uncompromising approach that questions the notion of time and the collapse of a world in permanent crisis. After Bernard Vienat

© Fabian Knecht, Grundmauer, 2019, Photograph, Fine art inkjet print, 162 x 234,5 cm, Unique piece
© Fabian Knecht, Grundmauer, 2019, Photograph, Fine art inkjet print, 162 x 234,5 cm, Unique piece

Fabian Knecht used to be a Master Student with Olafur Eliiasson. His works are internationally shown and acclaimed. Fabian Knecht is being represented by the Gallery alexander levy, Berlin.

Saskia Groneberg

“The extended, coloured cinematic perspectives, which evoke an association with landscape painting, explore how an artificial current of water turns into a projection surface and a platform for human desires and actions. A choreography is created, a collection of synchronised, recurring moving sequences through which the images inherit something universal.”

Anja Lückenkemper, curator, author

In the 2-channel video production Wasserfall Saskia Groneberg focuses on the English Garden in Munich.

works from top to bottom
1, 3, 4, 5 © Saskia Groneberg, Wasserfall, 2018, Videostill, 2-Kanal HD Video, Loop, 13:30 min
2 © Saskia Groneberg, Wasserfall, 2018, Installation view Galerie der Künstler München 2018, 2-Kanal HD Video, 13:30 min, Loop, Audiosound
6 © Saskia Groneberg, Junge, 2014, Photography, C-Print, 120 x 80cm, 5+2 AP

In her works Saskia Groneberg analyses the relationship between man and nature, successfully implementing the medium of photography and video. She concentrates on the recognition of formal design, psychological subtleness and sociocultural phenomenon.

Juuso Noronkoski

“There exists a German word for describing the contradictory nature of experiencing time – Ungleichzeitigkeit – non-simultaneity. The past and the present float around in my consciousness and I can’t decide which one feels more immediate.”

Juuso Noronkoski

“Juuso Noronkoski allows us to observe the passing of time.”

Taik Persons

© Juuso Noronkoski, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, 2019, 62 x 52 mm, edition of 6 + 2 AP, Pigment Print
Courtesy Gallery Taik Persons

Juuso Noronkoski from Helsinki works with photographs and installations to explore nature and its matter.

Juuso Noronkoski is represented internationally by Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin.

Claudia Wieser

Geometric gold-silver forms capture the blue and blackness of reproduced landscape from a bygone age resulting in the mystical attraction of woven tapestry. Fantastical characters float before a traditional setting, open up fictional spheres.

 

Photo of a woven tapestry: Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf

© Claudia Wieser, Untitled, 2013, Woven tapestry, 3 +1 AP, 280 x 188 cm
Courtesy Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf

Claudia Wieser is a Berlin-based artist who creates drawings, sculptures, wall installations and tapestries based on the principle of geometric abstraction.

Anna Witt

A performative manifesto for a potential youth movement

Anna Witt accompanied a group of young people in Leipzig as they developed and implemented a performative manifesto for a potential youth movement. In their conversations, the group expressed their feelings towards prevailing systems, contemplated the type of society they would like to live in and openly revealed their personal utopias. Based on their own ideas and sentiments, they then translated their manifesto into physical expressions and performative interventions in the public space.

Anna Witt creates playful situations and facilitates communal interaction. Using both verbal and non-verbal articulation, she prompt us to refelect on new definitions of collaborative coexistence.

“To rediscover the curiosity that shows you what you want, that brings out your own individual initiative” – Statement extract.

© Anna Witt, Das Radikale Empathiachat, video still 2018, 2-channel HD video, colour, sound, 20:10 min
Courtesy Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

The video was created in collaboration with Maria Bujanov, Phillip Borchert, Anja Engelhardt, Belve Langniss, Blandia Langniss, Chiara Rauhut, Lena Schubel and the support of the GFZK Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig.

Anna Witt, born in 1981 In Wasserburg/Inn, studied at The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, attending the classes of Monica Bonvicini, Magdalena Jetelova and Asta Gröting. She currently lives in Wien. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally and she is represented by Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin.

Shirana Shahbazi

“The major part of my work is the combinations that I put together between the photographs, which question each other, enrich each other; they can be very similar to each other or very different.”

Artist Shirana Shahbazi during an interview with Eva Respini, associate curator of the MoMA exhibition New Photography 2012.

“These pictures insist on a necessary openness that is demanded unconditionally and seeks out and withstands the pluralist, equal juxtaposition.”

Andreas Fiedler, curator of the Shirana Shahbazi exposition First Things First, artistic director of the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art.

“…, while the gaze continually navigates across disparate juxtapositions.”

From the First Things First catalogue text “Photographic Difference” by Jens Asthoff.

© Shirana Shahbazi, [Haare], 2014, Two-colored lithography on Zerkall Bütten paper, 67 x 87 cm / 26 3/8 x 34 1/4 inch
© Shirana Shahbazi, [Komposition-68-2013], C-print on aluminium, 150 x 120 cm / 59 x 47 1/4 inch

Shirana Shahbazi, born in 1974 in Tehran, presents her photographic artworks in dynamic arrangements that keenly challenge our perception and question our way of thinking.

Sinta Werner

“Art and architecture are interfused, sight and space are explored, as art proposes a new kind of perception.”

Sinta Werner, Master of Fine Arts, 2007, Goldsmiths College, London, works with installations and collages. Boundaries between artwork and exhibition space, between image and sculpture, are broken down in her works.

© Photos: Sorin Morar and Sinta Werner

© Sinta Werner, CMYK colour space, 1st prize, public art competition, Munich, realised in 2015 at the Meindl School, Munich

Lichtinstallation Europa

“Today, so much seems self-evident even when it clearly isn’t. Not too long ago, this place, this city, this land – the whole of Europe – lay in ruins. History is still palpable. For this reason, it is important to make statements that emanate a positive and affirmative message in support of Europe, like this light installation. Resembling a lighthouse, it serves as a figurative aid to navigation, guiding us through the darkness and symbolising hope.”

Lukas Feireiss, author, curator

Foto © Ruben Dario Kleimeer

LICHTINSTALLATION EUROPA architects and project initiators Caro Baumann und Johannes Schele

Loredana Nemes

In the banking sector, senior positions are predominantly held by men. Loredana Nemes decided to photograph some of them. Doing so, the artist sculpturally arranges the suit and accessories in an avant-garde manner. Commonly considered as the uniform and insignia of the world of business and finance, Nemes stylistically experiments with the fabric of the suit, bestowing it a new materiality and form. With this, the essence and the inward gaze of the wearer become apparent.

Loredana Nemes is a highly-esteemed artist who devises photographic series in black and white, creating unique portraits that examine the notion of identity.

© Loredana Nemes, Jan/Joachim/Jürgen, 2016, silver gelatin print, 60 x 50 cm, edition of 5 (+ 2 a.p.), 100 x 83.4 cm, edition of 5 (+ 1 a.p.), Courtesy Podbielski Contemporary