Instagram Takeover 2021

New year means many new Instagram takeovers! We are very happy to announce that @corduladitz will lead off tomorrow! Cordula Ditz (*1972) studied visual arts at the @hfbkhamburg and @akbild 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.

We are happy to welcome Stefan Marx here on our account every Wednesday this month! 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. This year, new works by Stefan Marx will be presented in two of our upcoming exhibitions!

We are very much looking forward to our next Instagram takeover with hannah Rath that is going to start on 10 March! 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.

New takeover approaching! This time with Manuel Rossner (*1989). He 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. Later this year, he will be part of the exhibition »Out of Space« at the Kunsthalle (starting in June)! Last but not least, a heartfelt thank you to Hannah Rath for last month's takeover!

We are very excited about Simon Fujiwara taking over our account on the next Wednesdays. 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.

We are very happy to announce that Angela Anzi will take over our account every Wednesday this month! 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. Her work will soon be on view in our upcoming exhibition »Out of Space« as well as in the solo exhibition #Aiaia at Heldenreizer Contemporary in Munich. Many thanks to Simon Fujiwara for the great digital visit of his character @whothebaer to the Kunsthalle! It was a pleasure!

It's July and that means it's time for a new takeover! Every Wednesday this month Jacqueline Hen will be taking over our account. 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. Hen's works can currently be seen in the exhibition »Out of Space«. Thank you Angela Anzi for the wonderful takeover in June!

Armin Keplinger (*1982, Linz) is a berlin based artist with focus on digital image creation and state of art CGI techniques. His work »ND-996« is currently on view in our show »Out of Space«. 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. 

We are excited to welcome the artist Grit Richter on Instagram this month! She will be taking over our account the nexts Wednesdays. A good opportunity to get a foretaste of our exhibition »something new, something old, something desired« that she will be part of next year. 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'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. Starting tomorrow, Serena Ferrario will give you insights into her practice here on Instagram every Wednesday in October! If you want to see her works live, come visit her installation »Where the Drawings Live« at the Kunsthalle! Our heartfelt thanks go to Grit Richter for the exciting takeover in September that made us look forward to the exhibition »something new, something old, something desired« even more. Next year you will be able to see her work there live.

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.  Currently, his work is part of our exhibition »Out of Space«.

Photo: Jenny Schäfer (@thisisjennyschaefer)