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Our Instagram Takeover is entering its third year and will from now on take place once a month! Tomorrow, we will kick off 2022 with the artist Johanna Reich, whose work will be on display from 14 January as part of our exhibition »Futura. Measuring Time«. Johanna Reich explores the complex shifts in our perception in the age of digitisation. In minimalist video performances, she explores the boundaries of real, virtual and painterly imagery and directs the viewers' attention to the effects that the merging of the net world and the real world have on our everyday lives. Thematically, her work revolves around presence and absence, dematerialization and disappearance, the visible and the invisible. Johanna Reich lives and works in Cologne and has held a visiting professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich since 2020.

The artist Ani Schulze will take over our Instagram account and fill our channel with her content. Works by @ani_schulze are currently on view in our exhibition »Futura. Measuring Time.« Ani Schulze's films, drawings, sculptures and installations interweave visual worlds in which history and stories are circled in dreamlike, surreal images. A recurring element is the human body and its porosity to the environment, technology, fantasy and control. Non-linear narratives playfully unfold into visual collages, overlapping assigned roles and temporalities. In doing so her work plays with the familiar while arousing suspicion. Ani Schulze currently lives and works in Braunschweig.

Artist Simon Modersohn takes over our Instagram channel and will fill it with his content and ideas. Interesting works by @simon_modersohn are featured in our current exhibition »something new, something old, something desired« Modersohn's paintings are enigmatic, melancholic pictorial worlds that present the familiar in an irritating way. His still lifes are characterized by elements of the absurd or the fantastic, as well as strange details that allude to the obviously grotesque and uncanny in art. Equally mysterious are the images of seemingly everyday situations of village life, which in their dreariness at first create an oppressive, sad and claustrophobic feeling. The supposed desolation of the subject is taken almost to the absurd in a sovereign lightness. Thus it is those supposedly fugitive moments that sustainably engage our imagination.

We are happy to announce that the artist Sara Sizer will be taking over our Instagram account on 13 April 2022! Sara Sizer's works are paintings, but not made with paint in the conventional sense. They are created from stretched, raw cloth which has been manipulated to reveal images. The bleaching of red velvet or raw linen, removing the threads from canvas, spray painting on crumpled linen, or ink laid out on velvet to be sucked up through capillary action to create landscapes or abstract family portraits are some ways Sara Sizer achieves vastly different visual results. Nonetheless, all of these results are locked within the circle of their own making. Three of her velvet works are currently on view in our exhibition »something new, something old, something desired«.

We are excited to welcome Evan Roth on our Intstagram account tomorrow! For the past 15 years, @evanroth_ has been making work in arts institutions, in public spaces, and on the internet, resulting in paintings, installations, videos, and websites. Based in Berlin, Roth's practice visualizes, archives, and challenges our perceptions of typically unseen aspects of rapidly changing communication technologies. Often by way of unintended uses of tools and technologies, his work addresses the personal and cultural effects surrounding these changes and the role of individual agency within the media landscape. And there will be more of his work waiting for you soon in our upcoming show »Give and Take. Images upon Images«.

Tomorrow, the artist Viktoria Binschtok will take over our account! If you have already visited our new exhibition »Give and Take. Images upon Images«, you will already be familiar with her work. Viktoria Binschtok lives and works in Berlin. In her photographic works, she examines circulating images of our globalised world. Through appropriation strategies, she transfers found visual material from diverse sources into new contexts that allow an unusual view of current image culture. In serial and installative groups of works, she addresses the dynamic status of the medium of photography and its permanent interaction between online and offline spaces. Many thanks go to Evan Roth for the insights into his artistic practive last month!

Sara Cwynar will take over our Instagram account in July! Sara Cwynar lives and works in Brookly, NY. She is an artist working in photography and video. Her photographs often take the form of sculptural constructions that are photographed, printed, tiled, and re-photographed as new images. Her videos similarly combine existing images from a personal archive to remix and re-present familiar imagery. She strives to situate an individual approach within the shared visual codes of popular culture. Her most recent video, »Glass Life«, a six-channel video installation, is on view in our current exhibition »Give and Take«. It examines the way that truth gets constructed and solidified through images, and how we absorb narratives that are presented to us as true.

Tomorrow, it's time for another Instagram takeover. We are very happy to announce that Vivian Greven is going to be our guest on our account this time. Since last week, her series »Losa« has been on view in our new exhibition »FOURTIMESFOUR«. Vivian Greven’s painting is based on an adept play with various notion of bodies, being and representation, with concepts of classical antiquity merging with pop art and digital image worlds. Her painting is characteristic of our present times, which are shaped by the internet and social media and thus dissolve the hierarchies between original, reproduction and simulation. Parts of her painting rise as actual reliefs that encounter sprayed or painted fictions of bodies and space. The aesthetic of her pictures vacillates between the vocabulary of physical painting and the ethereal illusion of LCD windows. We are also sending a heartfelt thank you to Elena Subach for introducing her work here last month.

It's that time again: Tomorrow there will be a new Instagram Takeover! This week Thomas Baldischwyler will give an insight into his work and artistic routine. Currently, he can be seen in the exhibition »BREATHING«. Baldischwyler's artistic practice is difficult to grasp because his working methods and contexts change depending on the subject and context. He has been awarded many prizes and scholarships in recent years, including the Förderpreis of the Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster and the Edwin Scharff Prize in Hamburg. His art has been shown in exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Great Britain, Italy and Australia. We look forward to the insights tomorrow and thanks to Vivian Greven for doing the Instagram take-over in September!

We are excited to announce tomorrow's Instagram takeover: drum roll for Alice Channer! Alice Channer is an artist working with sculpture. Her forms and materials are found in the sensual and social worlds of industry and nature. Over long periods of time, she immerses herself in industrial and natural materials and production processes. From this experience, she develops forms into sculpture that is both emotionally charged and industrially perfected. Her method is experimental and precise, collaborating with people, machines, and materials to bring multiple bodies and voices into her polyphonic works. Four sculptures and two groups of drawings by the artist are currently on view in our exhibition »BREATHING«, some of them commissioned especially for the show. Come by to see them yourselves and follow along tomorrow for exclusive insights into Alice Channer's artistic practice.

It's time for the next Instagram takeover! We are looking forward to Andreas Greiner taking over tomorrow! Andreas Greiner (*1979, Aachen) is an artist working in a wide range of media. He works with (living) sculpture, installation, video and algorithmic image generation. He lives and works between Berlin, Munich and Kiel. Since 2022 he has been a professor of media art at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts in Kiel. Since 2019, he has realised numerous tree-planting projects. His artistic practice is based on the idea that every living being is an artist*. Some of his works are part of our current exhibition »BREATHING«.