Katharina Gaenssler
21 Apr - 27 May 2006
KATHARINA GAENSSLER
›Munich 13 - 22 March 2006‹
21 April - 27 May 2006
Katharina Gaenssler’s first show at the Barbara Gross Gallery will be an installation featuring a large photographic reproduction of a small, one-bedroom Munich apartment in its entirety. Between March 13 and 22, the dates mentioned in the show’s title, the artist used her camera to map out the little apartment, which was full to bursting with books, films, photographs, and newspaper clippings. A flood of images was her answer to the multitude of objects in the space. In concentrating upon shooting sections of the apartment, she splintered it into thousands of individual images, of which she then made color copies, using them to create a collage of the entire place on the walls of the gallery. The various perspectives in the photographs open up the walls of the rooms in different directions. Individual objects and motifs are layered and overlapped. Focus, out-of-focus, various levels of light join at the spot where the individual images intersect.
The space loses its fundamental stability, dissolving in a myriad of details, and it is altered even more by the givens of the gallery space. This creates a place where new relationships among ?people, images, space, and time arise. Besides this multi-part photo installation, which permits the viewer an intense experience of space, Gaenssler will also show a digital photomontage, which captures the apartment as a whole. All of the photographs will also be collected in a book, which, from the first to the last picture, will provide the reader with an almost filmic perspective of the photographer’s view. Finally, from the flood of images, the photographer has selected photographs that not only draw attention to a series of details in the apartment, but also stand for the character of the individual picture among the conglomerate of images.
For five years, Gaenssler has been working on the fragmentation of temporal and spatial contexts in large photographic panoramas. While traveling, she creates extensive series of images, which she then binds into photo-journals with titles such as Genoa 15 January – 21 May 2001, or multi-part atlases, such as Trans-Siberia I-XIII, 2004. The condensed, time/space arrangement of the images allows us to track her movement through the space. On the other hand, Gaenssler also uses a particular principle of systematically photographing architectural situations according to an imaginary pattern and then mounting the pictures to create a panoramic image. These photo-collages show the artist’s perspective of squares and landscapes, which she assembles, as if they were mosaics, out of a cornucopia of individual photographs. In her most recent works, the artist has moved from the outside to the inside; at the same time, she has abandoned the previous visual form and now papers the walls with large photocopies of the motifs. In our exhibition, she further develops this process by transferring a reproduction of an entire apartment into the gallery space.
Katharina Gaenssler, born in 1974 in Munich, studied from 1998 to 2005 at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. In 2003, she received the Aenne Biermann Prize for Contemporary German Photography. Her final student work was awarded the Manfred Bischoff Prize from the Stiftung der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in 2005
›Munich 13 - 22 March 2006‹
21 April - 27 May 2006
Katharina Gaenssler’s first show at the Barbara Gross Gallery will be an installation featuring a large photographic reproduction of a small, one-bedroom Munich apartment in its entirety. Between March 13 and 22, the dates mentioned in the show’s title, the artist used her camera to map out the little apartment, which was full to bursting with books, films, photographs, and newspaper clippings. A flood of images was her answer to the multitude of objects in the space. In concentrating upon shooting sections of the apartment, she splintered it into thousands of individual images, of which she then made color copies, using them to create a collage of the entire place on the walls of the gallery. The various perspectives in the photographs open up the walls of the rooms in different directions. Individual objects and motifs are layered and overlapped. Focus, out-of-focus, various levels of light join at the spot where the individual images intersect.
The space loses its fundamental stability, dissolving in a myriad of details, and it is altered even more by the givens of the gallery space. This creates a place where new relationships among ?people, images, space, and time arise. Besides this multi-part photo installation, which permits the viewer an intense experience of space, Gaenssler will also show a digital photomontage, which captures the apartment as a whole. All of the photographs will also be collected in a book, which, from the first to the last picture, will provide the reader with an almost filmic perspective of the photographer’s view. Finally, from the flood of images, the photographer has selected photographs that not only draw attention to a series of details in the apartment, but also stand for the character of the individual picture among the conglomerate of images.
For five years, Gaenssler has been working on the fragmentation of temporal and spatial contexts in large photographic panoramas. While traveling, she creates extensive series of images, which she then binds into photo-journals with titles such as Genoa 15 January – 21 May 2001, or multi-part atlases, such as Trans-Siberia I-XIII, 2004. The condensed, time/space arrangement of the images allows us to track her movement through the space. On the other hand, Gaenssler also uses a particular principle of systematically photographing architectural situations according to an imaginary pattern and then mounting the pictures to create a panoramic image. These photo-collages show the artist’s perspective of squares and landscapes, which she assembles, as if they were mosaics, out of a cornucopia of individual photographs. In her most recent works, the artist has moved from the outside to the inside; at the same time, she has abandoned the previous visual form and now papers the walls with large photocopies of the motifs. In our exhibition, she further develops this process by transferring a reproduction of an entire apartment into the gallery space.
Katharina Gaenssler, born in 1974 in Munich, studied from 1998 to 2005 at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. In 2003, she received the Aenne Biermann Prize for Contemporary German Photography. Her final student work was awarded the Manfred Bischoff Prize from the Stiftung der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in 2005