Urban Haze
11.06.2010 - 15.07.2010
AedesLand, Else-Ury-Bogen 600-601, 10623 Berlin, Germany
On the occasion of the inauguration of her work le regard exterieur in the new building for the Ministry for Families in Berlin, Veronika Kellndorfers exhibition at AedesLand shows for the first time the covert alliance between her pictorial mode of operation and her archive of glass works, projections, sketches, transparencies and models.Here work concerns the perception of architecture and how the interface between aesthetic and social space becomes a part of it, as demonstrated in her Berlin public space projects such as the Bornholmer Strasse and Bellevue SBahn stations and the ARD Capital Studio. Through her travels and formal enquiries she discovers just how much one can read the story of a society through buildings. The work investigates the pivotal roles played by transparency, projection, space and reflection in this regard. The artist makes for herself images of architectural icons of modernity in which demarcations between inside and outside are almost always blurred. This is all possible because of the material qualities of glass: its transparency and its use as a means of separation. She employs this same material as the carrier of her images. Her silkscreen transparencies are similarly broken up by countless reflections of light and images built up through photographic layers. This is how her work succeeds: dense with meanings and the transfer of the threedimensionality onto the glass planes, such that the space of aesthetic presentation functions as memory.Veronika Kellndorfer lives and works in Berlin. The core of her work is its examination of, and installation in, buildings such as, for example, in the Federal Labour Court in Erfurt, the Siemens corporate headquarters in Munich, the Faculty of Economics in Magdeburg, and the Justice Centre in Aachen. She has received many grants and fellowships, such as the Villa Massimo German Academy Fellowship, a residency at the Villa Aurora and the Schloss Solitude Academy Fellowship. Her work has been shown extensively around the world, including exhibitions in Los Angeles, Moscow, Leipzig, Edinburgh and Berlin. |
July 2010
