Instagram Takeover 2021

#takingoverkunsthallehh

If you've ever wondered how artists prepare for an exhibition, whether artists also work in a home office, what it's actually like in a studio, or which artists serve as inspiration, then click through. Since April 2020, we have been giving artists the floor and let them use our Instagram account. Take a look at new works, directly into the studio or be in the middle of the exhibition setup.

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Cordula Ditz

Cordula Ditz (*1972) studied visual arts at the HFB Hamburg and AK Bild in Vienna and was a guest professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich last year. In her diverse body of work, she puts installation, sculpture, painting, performance, sound and video on an equal footing within a common frame of reference. In her collage-like installations she explores how cultural constructions emphasize masculine power and exclude and silence women and other marginalized groups.

Stefan Marx

For around 20 years Stefan Marx (*1979) has been studying script: lines of songs, sayings, sentences, and quotations, which he then translates in his own script, his graphic writing, into paintings or drawings—two-dimensional surfaces. Stefan Marx is an artist and a cultural philosopher. He published artist’s books through his own publishing company, designs record covers for various labels, and exhibits his works at art book fairs and galleries. His work has been seen in many international exhibitions. His artist books were part of the exhibition Artist Books at the Kunsthalle in 2017/18. In August 2019 his drawing column appeared daily in the New York Times.

Hannah Rath

Hannah Rath (*1983) was born in Marburg/Lahn and lives and works in Berlin. She studied sculpture at the HFBK Hamburg, where she received her diploma in 2010 under the supervision of Pia Stadbäumer and Hanne Loreck.
Rath's artistic work is based on writing, the image of writing and the carriers of writing in its actual use and application, as well as the interweaving of grids and characters. The shift between these levels is a recurring motif. She plays with possible multi-layered meanings that are revealed in the perception process of reading, for example in the form of anagrams or palindromes.
Since 2016 Hannah Rath has been a member of the artist collective THE BOOKS THE BOOKS, and co founded the publishing house for artist publications of the same name in 2020.

Manuel Rossner

Manuel Rossner (*1989) lives and works in Berlin. Since 2012, he has been designing digital spaces and virtual worlds in which he investigates the effects of technological developments on society and art. He builds interactive architecture with digital materials that are spatial interventions and virtual extensions. Rossner also deals with the future of exhibitions in the digital world. In 2017, he designed a digital extension for the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf and curated the VR exhibition »Unreal«, together with Alain Bieber,Tabita Rezaire and Banz & Bowinkel, among others. In 2020 he showed »Surprisingly This Rather Works«, the first solo show in KÖNIG GALERIE’s digital exhibition space, curated by Anika Meier and Johann König.

Simon Fujiwara

Simon Fujiwara is a British Japanese artist whose broad ranging works take a unique and highly personal approach to exploring identity and the industry of the individual. Who the Baer is the artists’ current project, a cartoon character he invented with no gender, race or origin story – just a design or image, seeking an identity in a world of other images. As a cartoon, Who the Baer has endless possibilities and can transform into any image they see, but will Who the Baer ever become more than just a picture? In this episode Fujiwara has created a unique set of collages of Who the Baer’s visit to the Hamburger Kunsthalle! Follow @whothebaer for a glimpse into the world of Who. A major exhibition of works from Who the Baer’s world is currently on view at Fondazione Prada in Milan.

Angela Anzi

Angela Anzi (*1981 Lucerne / CH) works across the field of sculpture, sound and performance. Her work includes spacious sceneries that subvert habitual patterns of perception. The sculptural works are given a stage, develop a life of their own and reveal themselves in their sound. By means of choreographed sequences of action, Angela Anzi challenges expectations and allows things to experience shifts in meaning. 

Jacqueline Hen

Jacqueline Hen is an Artist and Spatial Designer working on large scale performative installations. Her work investigates possibilities of social transformation through communication and participation in the intersection of physical and virtual habitats. She studied Visual Communication, Spatial- and Exhibition design at UdK Berlin and Art Center in Los Angeles. 

Armin Keplinger

Armin Keplinger (*1982, Linz) is a berlin based artist with focus on digital image creation and state of art CGI techniques. In his practice, Keplinger explores the interaction between digital and physical spaces as well as the split between different stages of time. During recent years, Keplinger has focused his creative efforts on the intersection between physical and virtual space, with special emphasis on Virtual Reality. In his work, Keplinger relies on a minimalistic visual prose through artworks that constantly change forms and shapes in order to shift people’s perception. 

Grit Richter

Grit Richter explores the representation of a collective human memory. Her work refers to the multitudinous combinations of contradictory emotions that can be felt at any one time. In both their singularity and plurality, those mixed emotions, such as longing, hatred, love, fear, loneliness, frustration, shame and joy, constitute the substructures of identity and the complex diversity of human nature. Her multi-disciplinary practice of painting, sculpture, murals and textile work unites in a system of intuitive abstract forms and figurations.

Serena Ferrario

Serena Ferrario's (*1986, Crema, Italy) artistic practice centres around themes of loss, memory in the context of identity and cross-cultural webs of relations. She brings these themes together in large-scale, stage-like installations consisting of drawings, sculptures and video works. Ferrario's autofictional video collages are created from an ever-changing combination of old and new archive footage that the artist has recorded on her travels to her home countries of Germany, Romania and Italy. 

Axel Loytved

In Axel Loytved (*1982) artistic practice, he challenges notions of the value of materials and objects. His works focus on the moment when current models of value creation implode, when the demand to reconcile life and commodity is no longer fulfilled. They are a precise questioning of processes of exploitation as well as attributions of value and meaning. Loytved finds his material in side streets, backyards and trouser pockets. It is the shells of attractions and desires that Loytved uses to develop new forms and undertake the re-perspectivisation of social and economic cycles. 

Photo: Jenny Schäfer (@thisisjennyschaefer)