Christian Haake
25 Nov 2012 - 03 Feb 2013
Christian Haake builds models of everyday objects and spaces with meticulous precision. The alluring virtuosity that he shows in the small details of his miniature and life size models draw the viewer’s attention and have them believe they are perceiving reality. Though suspicions will be aroused and then the initial perception altered. Haake does not intend to imitate. His works emanate from of his memory; impressions with small changes.
Alongside working with objects and installations Haake also works with drawings, film and photography, which focus on everyday surroundings and the well-known architecture of half-public and public places. They tie in with images of the collective memory and turn into a melancholic overview of the “inhospitality of cities”. While doing so Haake does not use the attention seeking staging of the weirdness. His works rather enlighten the experience of the “strangeness of the everyday”, as Janneke de Vries writes. Christian Haake’s work is newly commissioned for the Kunstverein Langenhagen.
Christian Haake (*1969 in Bremerhaven) lives and works in Bremen. He studied Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK Bremen) and Science of Art as well as Philosophy at the University of Bremen. He won the Bremen Art prize (2007), the Prize of the Friends of the University of the Arts Bremen (2009) as well as the Paula Moderson Becker Prize (2010) and the working scholarship of Stiftung Kunstfonds (2011). His first institutional solo exhibition was in 2011 at the GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen. Haake took part in a number of group exhibitions and projects amongst others at Künstlerhaus Bremen, Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Riga Art Space and Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung as well as “Nordlichter – 84. Autumn Exhibition of Lower Saxonian Artists” of the Kunstverein Hanover.
Alongside working with objects and installations Haake also works with drawings, film and photography, which focus on everyday surroundings and the well-known architecture of half-public and public places. They tie in with images of the collective memory and turn into a melancholic overview of the “inhospitality of cities”. While doing so Haake does not use the attention seeking staging of the weirdness. His works rather enlighten the experience of the “strangeness of the everyday”, as Janneke de Vries writes. Christian Haake’s work is newly commissioned for the Kunstverein Langenhagen.
Christian Haake (*1969 in Bremerhaven) lives and works in Bremen. He studied Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK Bremen) and Science of Art as well as Philosophy at the University of Bremen. He won the Bremen Art prize (2007), the Prize of the Friends of the University of the Arts Bremen (2009) as well as the Paula Moderson Becker Prize (2010) and the working scholarship of Stiftung Kunstfonds (2011). His first institutional solo exhibition was in 2011 at the GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen. Haake took part in a number of group exhibitions and projects amongst others at Künstlerhaus Bremen, Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Riga Art Space and Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung as well as “Nordlichter – 84. Autumn Exhibition of Lower Saxonian Artists” of the Kunstverein Hanover.