our Solo
Annika Kahrs
Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg
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- Title
- our Solo
- Gallery
- Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg
- Year
- 2021
- Duration
- 24 min 25 s
- Format & Technical
HD, Single-Channel Video, Five-Channel Sound, Colour
- Derya Yıldırım
- Joseph Houston
- Phuong-Dan
- Freja Sandkamm
The video and sound installation Our Solo experiments with mixing the perception of music in a classical concert hall and of music played in a private setting. Four professional musicians are seen, who seemingly enter into a dialogue across physical distances. Three of these musicians play alone in their private homes, to practice pieces of music and melodies, and improvise individual fragments of sound. Their music seems to transcend through the walls of an empty concert hall, and onto the stage of an opera singer. Different melodies emerge and invite her directly to interact with these domestic performances and intimate moments.
A project with Derya Yıldırım, Joseph Houston, Phuong-Dan, Freja Sandkamm.
The work was originally commissioned by BNKR – current reflections on art and architecture, Munich on occasion of the exhibition ‘’The Architecture of Confinement“ curated by Till Fellrath and Sam Bardaouil.
Stills
L’artista ha celebrat exposicions tant d’àmbit nacional com internacional, en centres com el Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart de Berlín, la cinquena biennal d’art contemporani de Tessalònica (Grècia), el Savvy Contemporary de Berlín, la Biennal Internacional de Curitiba (Brasil), la Hamburger Kunsthalle, el KW Institut für zeitgenössische Kunst de Berlín, la Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland de Bonn o el Gropius Bau de Berlín.
El 2022, Kahrs participarà a la 16a Biennale d’art contemporain de Lió, que obre el setembre del 2022, i actualment està preparant dues exposicions en solitari per al 2023 a la Nassauischer Kunstverein de Wiesbaden i la Schering Foundation de Berlín.
La seva instal·lació multimèdia how to live in the echo of other places es va inaugurar el juny del 2022 a Hamburg i va ser dissenyada per ella mateixa i comissariada per Ellen Blumenstein. Així mateix, Imagine the City e.V. Kahrs ha rebut nombrosos guardons i beques, i les seves obres formen part de col·leccions privades i institucionals, entre les quals figuren la Hamburger Kunsthalle (Alemanya) o l’ARTER Collection (Turquia).
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- Title
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- Gallery
- Videoart at Midnight Editions, Berlin
- Year
- 2025
- Duration
- 15 min
- Format & Technical
HD Video, 16:9
- Contact
- All stills courtesy of the artist.
In A BIG YEAR, Annika Kahrs engages with the legacy of ornithologist Ted Parker III (1953-1993), whose extraordinary hearing enabled him to identify over 4,000 bird species by their song alone – a talent that left a lasting mark on ornithology and fundamentally changed the way that birds are documented and understood. Kahrs draws on original recordings from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, including clips of Parker’s own voice – fragile traces of his life devoted to sound, and imbued with a quiet kind of poetics – exploring how scientific listening, collective perception, and translation intertwine, and how Parker’s passion for sound is inextricably linked to broader questions of memory, transience, and the ephemerality of the archive. How can humans connect with nature, with the unknown – and perhaps with themselves – through sound, and through voice as a medium sited between proximity and distance?
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Produzentengalerie Hamburg
- Address
- Admiralitätstraße 71, Hamburg, 20459 , Hamburg, Germany
- Phone
- +49 40 378232
- Website
- www.produzentengalerie.com
Founded in 1973, Produzentengalerie Hamburg has been one of the leading galleries for contemporary art in Germany since the 1980s. It is well-known for having constantly pursued an innovative, cutting-edge exhibition programme and for discovering new aesthetic positions.
The gallery represents internationally renowned artists who have been on display in various international art institutions and are part of some of the world’s most reputable museums. In addition to those established positions the gallery offers a platform for new talents in contemporary German art. Produzentengalerie Hamburg organizes circa five solo or group exhibitions annually and participates in the major international art shows.