Kamila B. Richter

Kamila B. Richter (* 1976 in Olomouc ) is a Czech-German media artist.

Life

Kamila B. Richter - To Err is Machine, Tokyo III, 2018 (digital error, ink, oil, amber on canvas) (Cut) - Painting (oil on canvas) - Technically outdated cell phones with low-resolution cameras were used to capture the nightlife on the streets of European, Asian, South and North American cities. For Kamila B. Richter, the blurry, restrictive phase image from these cameras is the only contemporary documentation of reality.

Kamila B. Richter - Emporium Spirit - Screen recordings of the data visualization of the Emporium Spirit series

Richter had 2001 a Master of Fine Arts and in 2010 the Dr. Phil at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague . She lived in Durban Johannesburg (South Africa) from 2000 to 2002 and studied here at the Technikon Natal in Durban. Kamila B. Richter lives and works today in Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe.

Kamila B. Richter - 0 system. Information is reduced to a single character that only indicates the presence of information. With each next selection, the selection area shrinks until there is no more space left for a selection, although nothing specific has been achieved or stated by the selection process.

Richter has been working in public and institutional spaces since 1996. Since the 2000s she has participated in national and international exhibitions, festivals and symposia. Kamila B. Richter has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions on the web, in the Telegrafenamt (Vienna), in the Art Center Nabi (Seoul, South Korea), the Künstlerhaus (Vienna), the DOX (Prague) and the ZKM Karlsruhe.

Kamila B. Richter - M-System. The participatory web project M-System offers a simple abstract reality of the Prague subway transport system, in which an individual trace of participation can be entered in order to jointly change the otherwise strict map of the subway network.

Kamila B. Richter has been using technically outdated mobile phones with camera functions since 2011 to record street scenes at night in Europe, but also in cities in Asia, South and North America. Her paintings mostly show blurred silhouettes of human beings, often captured against the light in a technically resolved environment. This alienated, medialized reality as image content and the old masterly technique of oil painting, in which she implements her works in layers of work lasting several weeks, make the tension in today's visual culture visible.

As a programmer in the first years of the web ( 0-System , 1997 and M-System , 1998), Richter lets strings of zeros and ones ( Emporium Spirit, Black Vortex ) emerge, meander, disintegrate and resurrect in the rooms of the exhibition rooms. a. in Lost Objects , National Theater Prague (2015) and Lost , Apollonia, Strasbourg (2016). In the first quarter of 2017, the solo exhibition LOST at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam in Havana, Cuba came to an end after being extended. Richter realized some of their projects together with the artist Michael Bielicky .

Exhibitions (selection)

Richter's first large group exhibition was the 2nd Youth Salon in Zlín (2000). Her first poster projects in the city of Zlín, Czech Republic, entitled Pure Love, were exhibited at the 3rd Zlín Youth Salon (2003). Her second large group exhibition was the groundbreaking exhibition World as Structure, Structure as Image in the Galerie Beim Weißen Einhorn, Klatovy . A retrospective of Richter's work in collaboration with Michael Bielicky took place at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam in Havana, Cuba. Her first major painting exhibition ended in September 2019. A selection of the works with Michael Bielicky can be seen in the artist's retrospective until March 2020 at the ZKM Karlsruhe.

Richter's work has also been shown in group exhibitions such as the Moscow Biennale, Moscow (2011), Havana Biennale, Seville (2012), Globale, ZKM (2015) and Open Codes, ZKM (2017).

literature

• Gallery Klatovy / Klenová (ed.): Svět jako Struktura, Struktura jako obraz (The world as structure, structure as illustration). Klatovy Gallery, Klenová. 2003.
• EU positive: Art from the new Europe , Academy of the Arts, Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-88331-081-6 .
• A. Ramirez Gaviria. When Is Information Visualization Art? Determining the Critical Criteria. Leonardo, 41 (5). 2008.
• Alexander Lang. Aesthetics in Information Visualization. Technical report, University of Munich, Department of Computer Science, 2010.

Web links

• Festival of Czech Art and Culture , Berlin and Karlsruhe, 2007.
• Falling Times , 2007.
• Garden of Error and Decay
• Videos of many works on Vimeo by the authors

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kamila B. Richter - about. ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Artist's website. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
2. ↑ Kamila B. Richter - Worldviewpattern. ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Nine-part series on the flood of data. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
3. ^ Goethe Institute - Wagner200 website . Website for the exhibition as part of the 2013 festival of the same name. Accessed June 20, 2017.
4. ↑ Michael Bielicky & Kamila B. Richter - The Garden of Error and Decay. Website of the Art Center Nabi, Seoul. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
5. ↑ Michael Bielicky & Kamila B. Richter - Garden of Error and Decay. Website of the Künstlerhaus for the exhibition Timeless Signs . Retrieved June 20, 2017.
6. ^ DOX Center for Contemporary Art - Cartographies of Hope: Change Narratives. Exhibition gallery website. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
7. ^ Kamila B. Richter - artist website website of the ZKM Karlsruhe. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
8. ↑ Kamila B. Richter - Painting website of the artist. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
9. ↑ Kamila B. Richter - 0 system. ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Artist's website. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
10. ↑ Kamila B. Richter - M-System. ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Artist's website. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
11. ↑ Alexander Lang. Aesthetics in Information Visualization. Technical report, University of Munich, Department of Computer Science, 2010. p. 3.
12. ↑ Kamila B. Richter - Emporium Spirit ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Artist's website. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
13. ↑ Kamila B. Richter - Black Vortex. ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Artist's website. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
14. ↑ A. Ramirez Gaviria. When Is Information Visualization Art? Determining the Critical Criteria. Leonardo, 41 (5): 479-482, 2008.
15. ↑ Michael Bielicky & Kamila B. Richter - Lost Objects. Website of the National Theater Prague. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
16. ↑ Michael Bielicky & Kamila B. Richter - Lost. Website of the Apollonia Échanges artistiques européens gallery. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
17. ↑ Michael Bielicky & Kamila B. Richter - Lost. Website of the Wifredo Lam Gallery. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
18. ↑ 2nd Zlín Youth Salon - exhibition website. Zlinské salony website. Viewed July 18, 2018.
19. ↑ 3rd Zlín Youth Salon - Exhibition website. Zlinské salony website. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
20. ^ Gallery Klatovy / Klenová (Ed.). Svět jako Struktura, Struktura jako obraz (World as Structure, Structure as Image). Klatovy Gallery, Klenová. 2003.
21. ↑ Michael Bielicky & Kamila B. Richter - Exhibition "Lost" at the CAC Wifredo Lam. Arte por Excelencias website. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
22. ^ Kamila B. Richter - "Divine Error" exhibition in the Zdeněk Sklenář gallery in Schönkirchovský palác. Official website of the gallery. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
23. ↑ Michael Bielicky - Perpetuum Mobile. ZKM website. Retrieved October 29, 2019.