9/3/2012
Heike Kabisch
Chert, Berlin
Deep down into the Ditch. The artist goes right back to figuration and representation creating her subjects from real studio models who need to pose in sometimes very awkward positions. She creates familiar scenes which reflect the hurting and uncomfortable futility of daily realities.
Chert is delighted to present the second solo exhibition in the gallery space of Heike Kabisch.
In recent years german artist Heike Kabisch has been producing sculptures and installations which detach themselves completely from all what the spectator expects from young contemporary sculpture: Kabisch goes right back to figuration and representation creating her subjects from real studio models who need to pose in sometimes very awkward an uncomfortable positions.
Instead of using abstraction and symbolism to reflect on reality she revers the process, creating familiar scenes which reflect the hurting and uncomfortable futility of daily realities.
By taking into account a very subtle and mostly invisible subject, she creates a prickling critic of welfare society.
Kabisch's interest focuses also in the impact which her practice has on the contemporary art world which is mostly characterized by very different (and accepted) aesthetics. Her works cause reflections on the traditionalism of the new artist's generation and public, where shapes and cultural codes are very often repeated and represent a safe direction of production/fruition. As for the same aspects of society she criticizes, the process applies to contemporary art elite, pointing out the standardization of interests and directions. Heike Kabisch's work is physically opponent to contemporary aesthetics, she challenges the spectator's understanding and openness and even his conservatorism towards art. Using one of the most classic and direct artistic production, Kabisch sculptures are able to open up a challenging debate on a relevant and probably necessary position outside the more accepted and repeated artistic languages.
Heike Kabisch was born in Münster in 1978. She now lives and works in Düsseldorf. After graduating from Kunstakademie Münster with Katharina Fritsch she attended a twoo years Master programme of Fine Art in Glasgow.
Recently her work has been exhibited at Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Kunstverein Markdorf, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Kunstmuseum Baden Solingen, KIT - Düsseldorf, Tramway, Glasgow and Frieze Art Fair, Frame Section, with Chert, Berlin.
Opening reception: Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 7.00 pm
on the same evening, Motto presents Morava books @ Motto Berlin / lecture starts at 8.00 pm
Chert
Skalitzerstr. 68 - 10997 Berlin
Tuesday - Saturday 12.00 - 6.00 pm