Karin Sander
dal 15/5/2014 al 17/6/2014
Segnalato da
15/5/2014
Karin Sander
Galerie Rosemarie Schwarzwaelder, Wien
In this exhibition, the artist features a series of photographic works taken with her mobile phone whenever someone calls her. All the data of the images, along with the location, is saved on the phone.
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder is pleased to present Karin Sander’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery.
In this exhibition Sander will show a series of photographic works taken with her mobile phone whenever someone calls her. The phone is programmed so that the camera switches on automatically whenever the artist gets a call. The artist herewith follows a set of rules that dictate how the works are created, while on the other hand, the result is beyond the reach of her influence to a certain degree. The result is pictures of details that tell both very little and a lot about a brief moment, a defined place and its coordinates. When she gets a call, her phone photographs a fragment of the chair in front or next to her, or it takes a picture of the floor, or a desk. The pictures are like the phone calls themselves. They happen unexpectedly, according to the principle of chance and more pictures will be added throughout the exhibition.
When my phone rings, my first reaction is to look who is calling. And because I’m distracted, I forget that a picture is being taken at that moment. This means that while the pictures are generated by chance, this is still happening within a clearly defined framework. All the data of the images, along with the location, is saved on the phone. These photographs are then printed, without being interpolated, in the size of 46 x 34.5 centimeters, according to the image resolution of my phone camera. What you see in the exhibition are then photographs from all over the world, each representing small fragments of wherever I was at those very moments.
- Karin Sander in conversation with Barbara Steiner, April 2014
Karin Sander was born in Bensberg, Germany. She studied art and art history at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart and at the I.S.P., Whitney Museum, New York.
Her solo exhibitions include Kernbohrungen, nbk, Berlin (2011); Gebrauchsbilder und Andere, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; (2010); Zeigen. Eine Audio-Tour durch Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (2009) and 1:9, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany (2002). She has taken part in many group shows, including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (2011); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; 9th Sharjah Biennale, UAE (2009); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2006); and Skulptur. Projekten Münster (1997). The artist lives and works in Berlin and Zurich.
Image: Karin Sander, 2014. Courtesy: Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
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Opening: Friday 16 May 2014: 6pm
Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Grünangergasse 1, 1010 Vienna
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