Love Affair
Katja Aufleger
Conradi, Hamburg
- Title
- Love Affair
- Gallery
- Conradi, Hamburg
- Year
- 2017
- Duration
- 22 min
- Format & Technical
4 K Video (Loop)
- Courtesy
In the video Love Affair by Katja Aufleger, inside a totally dark interior space, different customary light bulbs appear successively, shining, just to get shot one after another. The fixed camera provides a single view only. You don’t get to know who is shooting but it sounds like an air rifle. It might be near. It might be the artist who’s shooting. The only information you get is some commodities getting destroyed by a hidden unspecific shooter. Objects employed in order to illuminate spaces and environments become targets. Some lights simply go out whilst others crash. Depending on the properties of the material, it is shattered by the first round or progressively shot to pieces. Broken pieces of glass smashing on the floor suggest a vague notion of a void impossible to define by the given limits of perception.
Stills
Katja Aufleger is based in Berlin. Born in 1983, she studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg (HFBK) in the class of Andreas Slominski.
In the past years, her works have been presented in many institutional solo and group exhibitions and in public spaces such as apiece, Vilnius LTU (2022), Ruhr Triennale Bochum (2022), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2022), Museum Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin (2022), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (2021), Amant, New York, USA (2022/2023). In 2019 Aufleger travelled to Nairobi in Kenya with several artists and curators, supporting the art educational program of a local school by offering a workshop organized by the One Fine Day initiative.
Katja Aufleger has been awarded the grant of Stiftung Kunstfonds in 2019 and is currently holding a grant of the Deutsche Akademie Rom, Casa Baldi (2024).
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Conradi
- Address
- Admiralitätstraße 71, 20459, Hamburg, Alemania
- Phone
- +49 40 469 66 - 645
- office@galerie-conradi.de
- Website
- www.galerie-conradi.de
Established in 2008 in Hamburg, Conradi gallery is featuring artists with a specific conceptual approach and interest in popular culture. Time based media being an integral part of the gallery artists’ practice, most exhibitions include video art, photography, music / sound. In the last years the gallery’s activities have been extended by the Briefing Room – a space for exhibitions and seminars curated by two artists of the gallery, Andrzej Steinbach and Steffen Zillig. The space is located inside a shopping mall in Brussels.