Katharina Kiebacher

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Artist statement

Katharina Kiebacher’s work explores the multiple relationships between images and objects, and is engaged in the playful transition from two- to three-dimensional manifestations. Her inspiration is drawn from everyday life with a focus on architectural structures and urban patterns. Her most recent works revolve around the merging of photography with sculpture and the juxtaposition of two very diverse materials: clay and photographic ink jet prints. Photographs are usual very modest when it comes to their actual physical presence: flat in a frame with almost no elevation from the wall they operate rather as windows than as objects. But there are two spaces that a photograph represents: The setting of what is shown on the image, the transformed space in front of the camera. And the space the photograph claims for itself. In this context Katharina Kiebacher's sculptures reveal ways in which photography can assert space beyond a mere motif.

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