Katharina Gaenssler

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Katharina Gaenssler (* 1974 in Munich ) is a German visual artist .

Life

After training as a silversmith at the Neugablonz vocational school from 1993 to 1997, Gaenssler studied from 1999 to 2005 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Otto Künzli and Albert Hien, among others . Study and scholarship trips made it possible for her to stay in Genoa, Vienna and the USA.

Gaenssler worked as a lecturer at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig and in 2013/2014 as a visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg . She has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 2017 . She lives and works in Munich.

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Gaenssler works primarily as a photographer and mostly uses the photo collage technique for her large-format works . For her wall collages, she photographs rooms with a camera mounted on a tripod as if in a grid from top to bottom and from left to right. The thousands of individual images are reassembled at the exhibition site to form a complete view of the room shown. For the first time in 2012, she did not have her individual photos printed on paper in order to glue them together later, but used them as a template for a tapestry. Her work “Gobelin Sixtina, 2012” in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden is a tapestry measuring 680 × 925 cm, which is made in Belgian Flanders in a tapestry manufacture using the traditional technique of wool, cotton, silk and synthetic materials Yarn was woven. It replaces the Sistine Madonna for three months , but not only depicts the painting, but also the adjacent pictures and suites of rooms. The template for the tapestry was made from over 5750 photos by Gaenssler.

Exhibitions and lectures

Honourings and prices

Scholarships

Publications

  • Sistine MMXII . Michael Hering, Bernhard Maaz (ed.), Edition Minerva, Neu-Isenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-943964-00-4 .
  • Points of view = places of photography . With Thomas Lange, Torsten Scheid (ed.), Verlag Kehrer, Heidelberg, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86828-351-8 .
  • Katharina Gaenssler - inventory . Jutta Mannes (Ed.), Neue Galerie Dachau, Dachau 2010, ISBN 978-3-930941-67-4 .
  • Ephemeral . With Hans-Michael Koetzle, Markus Stempl, Wolfgang Jean Stock, Salon Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89770-378-0 .
  • Katharina Gaenssler - Story, Young Art in the Diözesanmuseum Freising, Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2404-6 .
  • Katharina Gaenssler - Archive, Salon Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3897702843 .
  • Wall 2007, Kulturreferat Munich , 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Braunschweig University of Fine Arts: Katharina Gaenssler
  2. ↑ Monopoly Magazine : Katharina Gaenssler - "Tower Room"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.monopol-magazin.de  
  3. ↑ Michael Diers : Placeholder. From cult image to image cult and back again. Raphael's Sistine Madonna and its new version by Katharina Gaenssler In: Lerchenfeld. Newsletter of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. April 2013, No. 19, pp. 9-11
  4. ↑ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Blog: Gobelin Sixtina, 2012 , from July 11, 2012
  5. ↑ http://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1539?locale=en
  6. ^ Museum Folkwang: (Mis) Understanding Photography. Works and manifestos
  7. ↑ http://www.barbaragross.de/exhibitions/?show=Past&year=2014&eid=33
personal data
SURNAME Gaenssler, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich