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Astrid Köppe / PARAMNESIA
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- Astrid Köppe
- Baran Lightbox I
- 2015
- Baran,LED panel,wooden frame
- 60 × 120 × 8 cm
- Schedule&Venu
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ART OSAKA 2024
2024
Jul 18
(thu)
Jul 22
(mon)
10:30-18:00
Closed on Mon, Tue
Schedule: 18 Jul 2:00pm - 7:00pm, 19 - 21 Jul 11:00am - 7:00pm, 22 Jul 11:00am - 5:00pm
Venu: Creative Center OSAKA 4-1-55 Kitakagaya Suminoe-ku Osaka 559-0011 JAPAN
- Overview
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Gallery Sekiryu will be participating in the ART OSAKA 2024 Expanded Section. This section focuses on large-scale works and installations that expand preconceived notions of art, with each gallery presenting site-specific exhibitions in a solo exhibition format by the artists.
Our gallery will feature Astrid Köppe, a Berlin-based artist who centers her work around drawing. Born in Köthen, Germany in 1974, Köppe will exhibit her installation "PARAMNESIA" in a corner of a designated modern industrial heritage shipyard, evoking layers of time.
Since 1999, Köppe has been creating enigmatic objects in her drawings, incorporating a wide variety of visual information such as plants, animals, minerals, and fungi, all depicted with a delicate and sophisticated touch. These objects evoke various associations in the viewer but ultimately remain unresolved, leaving us in a peculiar state of suspension.
In this installation, which extends her drawing approach into three dimensions, familiar everyday objects undergo unexpected proliferation and congregation, creating entirely new and strange scenes. The title "PARAMNESIA" refers to a memory disorder where reality and unreality blend together, symbolizing Köppe's attempt to destabilize our stable perceptions and memories.
Köppe's works have been exhibited extensively in Europe, the United States, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, and are included in public collections such as the Kupferstichkabinett of Berlin, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig, and Hamburger Kunsthalle. This time, the installation will be presented alongside Köppe's drawings and her other lifelong work, large enamel pieces (metal panels painted with vitreous enamel and fired), providing a comprehensive experience of her multifaceted practice.
Astrid Köppe's world, characterized by a pleasant dazzle and a ticklish sense of humor, will be presented as an immersive space incorporating sound and light. We hope you will be able to visit and enjoy the exhibition.
- Artist Statement
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Drawing is the foundation and always the core of my work. The objects shown in my drawings are ambivalent from the very start. They seem familiar and are done in a very precise and detailed way – therefore giving the impression of showing something very specific – yet you can never quite pin down what you are looking at. More often than not, the viewer is thrown into a state of cognitive dissonance.
If the opportunity presents itself, I like to extend this approach into the 3D. This usually happens when I come across an interesting material that aligns well with my visual vocabulary and has the potential to develop into something else. Such materials can be very commonplace, everyday objects – something about them will catch my eye, and I start to explore their visual and sculptural qualities. Often it just takes a little twist to completely change the perception of a thing. This can happen by placing them in an unusual context, amassing them when they are usually seen separately etc. …
At Osaka Art Fair, apart from my drawings and large scale vitreous enamels, I show a selection of installation works I have developed over the years based on this approach.These installations have been specifically adapted for the given space.
(Astrid Köppe, 2024)
- Biography
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Astrid Köppe, born in 1974, is a contemporary artist based in Berlin. Her recent solo exhibitions include "Pretty Shiny Stuff" at Arte Giani (Frankfurt, 2023) and MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY (formerly Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, USA, 2022), "konfabulasi" at Gallery Sekiryu (Tokyo and Nagano, 2020), and "Spontaneous Paradise" at Galerie Inga Kondeyne (Berlin, 2020). Köppe has also featured in group exhibitions like "Images in Fashion – Clothing in Art" at the Berlinische Galerie (Berlin, 2022) and "Chaosmos 6 – Silent Spring" at the Sakura City Museum of Art (Chiba, 2021). Her works have been shown extensively across Europe, the United States, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. Public collections holding her works include the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, the Berlinische Galerie, and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, among others. In 2021, she published an art book titled "Pretty Shiny Stuff" through Galerie Carolyn Heinz in Hamburg.
- Exhibited Work
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