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Katja Strunz

Drehmoment (Viel Zeit, wenig Raum)

Reflektierte Bezugnahme auf Formen der Avantgarde

The sculptures and site-specific installations Katja Strunz (b. Ottweiler, 1970; lives and works in Berlin) fashions out of bent sheet metal, steel plates, or wood are minimalist constructions unfolding into space. The rigorous and non-representational canon of forms grows out of her assimilation and reframing of various abstract tendencies, from constructivism to Minimal art. By inserting found objects and highlighting traces of their production and ageing, the artist reveals the fragility and impermanence of works of art and the stuff they are made of. Her objects and collages sometimes look like isolated parts of a utopian machine that an early-twentieth-century avant-garde movement shot into outer space and whose battered and splintered fragments, a former vision of a new and better future world, now penetrate and populate our reality.

The catalogue presents numerous illustrations to trace the evolution of Katja Strunz’s art from the early wall objects of the late 1990s to her folded works and collages and hence to the expansive site-specific installations of the past few years. With essays by Guido Faßbender and Thomas Köhler.