Writing about art
We encounter art in many different places and it is not just limited to the rooms of a museum. If we go through our day with our eyes open, we can discover art all around us. In the video installation Coexistence by the artist Donna Conlon, for example, we encounter leaf-cutting ants that not only carry leaves on their backs, but also national flags designed by the artist.
Many artistic themes are shaped by our everyday lives. The view of one's own home is brought into focus in many ways and appears both charming and disturbing in the poetic work Par no. 65 by the Danish artist Christina Bredahl Duelund. What we see there is an interior that gradually fills with water and makes the pieces of furniture dance seemingly weightlessly.
Left: Christina Bredahl Duelund, Couple no. 64 , video still, 2006.
We can also encounter art directly in our own four walls. Perhaps you enjoyed building pirate ships at home as a child and sailing them through your parents' living room. If so, Guy Ben-Ner's work will surely bring back exciting childhood memories for you, because in his work "Moby Dick" he does exactly that together with his daughter. His own kitchen becomes the great sea, the work surface the deck of a ship.
With my texts I would like to bring you closer to artists and awaken your fascination for art. I would like to shed light on various aspects, provide exciting background information and open up possible levels of interpretation.
Scientifically sound and written in an understandable way, it is important to me to appeal to as wide an audience as possible and to lower barriers. Because art is there for everyone's eyes. Art can and should inspire everyone, arouse emotions, invite people to dream and reflect. Whether big or small, old or young, whether new to art or experienced.
I write German-language texts for exhibition and collection catalogues (digital and print), and write short texts for biographies or descriptions of works. In doing so, I take into account the wishes of your institution and the target audience, consider the contextualization of the works and, if possible, let the artists themselves have their say.
My focus is primarily on art from the 19th to the 21st century in Germany, Denmark, Scandinavia and the Netherlands. This period encompasses revolutionary developments in art history that extend from Art Nouveau, Impressionism and Realism to Symbolism and Expressionism and their respective sub-genres up to contemporary art.
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