YEAR I
2022/2023
wood, metal, fabric, leather, plaster, acrylic paint, video (fullHD, 10.26min, stereo) Installation views by Thomas Splett, video stills by Sophia Mainka
wood, metal, fabric, leather, plaster, acrylic paint, video (fullHD, 10.26min, stereo) Installation views by Thomas Splett, video stills by Sophia Mainka
SOPHIA MAINKA
Sophia Mainka (*1990,Munich graduated in 2020 with honors as Meisterschülerin at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Professor Alexandra Bircken.
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Sophia Mainka works with various media such as drawing, sculpture, and video, which she usually combines in expansive installations. Her work engages with philosophical discourses and current social trends, as well as artistic research and production in an analysis of a middle-class aesthetic. Doing so, the artist raises questions that the structure and reality of life in a supposedly posthuman age inevitably raise. Relationships between human beings and objects are called into play, as is the movement of the body. She abstracts, enlarges, reduces,manipulates everyday objects, playing with interpretations and reinterpretations.
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Sound installation: 14 min. 52 sec., with texts and voices by Anna McCarthy, Edith Matilda Thomas, Justin Lieberman, Jo Penca, Johanna Gonschorek, Lita Grey Chaplin and Paulina Nolte
Aluminium mesh, cellulose, digital prints, copper wire, cable, piezo discs, 30 x 40 cm
JOHANNA GONSCHOREK
Johanna Gonschorek (*1989) graduated in 2021 at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Prof. Nicole Wermers after receiving her state exam in 2020 with Prof. Stephan Dillemuth.
In her work, she combines different levels of perception making contexts tangible in a variety of ways at the same time. On the one hand, she is interested in everyday realities such as architecture, public places and social spaces, but also in historical and political contexts and working with archives.
Her research-based approach, which combines sculptural and multimedia means, leaves a lot of freedom in terms of form and content, often based on feminist issues.
AKI KIEFER
Aki Kiefer (*1989) lives and works in Munich. She graduated in 2021 from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in the class of Pamela Rosenkranz. She studied Fine Arts in the class of Alba D'Urbano at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB) and Design at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
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Her artistic practice encompasses, painting, photography, installation and working in the collective.
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Liquid chalk on floor, variable size, plasterboard, 10 x 15 cm, engraving on plaster, glass plates, acrylic spray on glass
Liquid chalk on floor, variable size, plasterboard, 10 x 15 cm, engraving on plaster, glass plates, acrylic spray on glass
NATALIYA BORUSHCHAK
Nataliya Borushchak (*1987, Lwiw, Ukraine)after studying art and multimedia at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich she studied painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich under Prof. Axel Kasseböhmer and Prof. Schirin Kretschmann. She graduated in 2021.
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In her work Nataliya investigates the structural properties of various materials, which are select and translated into graphic structures. Often fragile and microscopically small textures whose structures can hardly be seen with the bare eye. Through processes of isolation, scaling and graphic translation, these are transformed and given a new visibility.
She works in a very minimalist way, often using only a pen or fineliner to create large drawings.