Karin Sander
05 March - 01 May 2011
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| © Karin Sander, Untitled (polished table tennis ball), 2009 (n.b.k. edition) |
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KARIN SANDER
March 5 – May 1, 2011
Karin Sander (born in 1957) is one of the best-known artists of her
generation. She has received numerous awards and her work is included in
numerous collections, e.g. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, MoMA, and
Washington’s Hirschhorn Museum. Since 2007 she has been professor for
architecture and art at ETH Zurich. She studied at Stuttgart’s Akademie
der Bildenden Künste and today lives in Berlin and Zurich.
For her individual show at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Sander has
planned an intervention that takes up an everyday act and translates it
to space as sculpture by using a banal and devalued material. Through
the ceiling of the exhibition space, which is the floor of the n.b.k.
offices above, she has had 30-centimeter-wide holes drilled in the
places where usually the wastepaper baskets are located. The holes
replace the wastepaper baskets, and visibly link administrative practice
with the practice of exhibition. Karin Sander captures the everyday
gesture of disposal by instructing the n.b.k. employees to ignore the
fact that the wastepaper baskets are missing. In this way material that
has become useless falls from the administration offices to the
exhibition space, and is transformed by way of the shift of context into
a constantly growing temporary sculpture. The falling paper – as a
metonymic sign of everyday life – becomes an object of the exhibit. This
open concept of sculpture shows Karin Sander’s approach, which can be
described here as the "brute" transformation of a found situation.
With this intervention, Karin Sander not only shifts the perception of
the institutional body itself, but also the perspective of visitors and
n.b.k. employees alike. Karin Sander’s works emerge in the context of
the location in question. She takes recourse to things already present
in the system and that can turn the system against itself. The relations
between inside and outside, between an institution and the city space
are made legible and displayed in their ambivalence.
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