PAULA GEHRMANN
KONTAKT@PAULAGEHRMANN.DE
Halle14 Spinnerei Leipzig
September 18 - 20, 2020
&
Sprengel Museum Hannover
September 26 - 29, 2020
CONSCIOUS INABILITY at GfZK LEIPZIG
Exhibition Review by ARTMargins Online;
September 27, 2019
September 27, 2019
DOK NEULAND
MdBK Leipzig
Oktober 26 - November 01, 2020
Oktober 26 - November 01, 2020
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DISPLAY ( PLATFORM, 2019 )
Installation für Platform München
2019
2019
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DISPLAY ( WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD, 2019 )
Szenographie für DOK Neuland
MdBK Leipzig
2019
MdBK Leipzig
2019
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WERKSTATTKUNST
D21 Leipzig
October 05 - Novmeber 11, 2019
Konzept: Katrina Blach & Paula Gehrmann
October 05 - Novmeber 11, 2019
Konzept: Katrina Blach & Paula Gehrmann
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DISPLAY ( CONSCIOUS INABILITY – THE GABRIELE STÖTZER ARCHIVE #1, 2019 )
GfZK Leipzig
March 09, 2019 - July 5, 2020
Based on her artistic practice, Paula Gehrmann develops spatial installations for the Gabriele Stötzer Archive that comment and expand upon both Stötzer’s work and the conception of the archive. The archive undergoes transformations, opening up continually new perspectives on the design of social and artistic spaces for action in the recent past and present. The title Conscious Inability – a quotation from Stötzer – refers to the strategic infiltration of social and artistic norms.
March 09, 2019 - July 5, 2020
Based on her artistic practice, Paula Gehrmann develops spatial installations for the Gabriele Stötzer Archive that comment and expand upon both Stötzer’s work and the conception of the archive. The archive undergoes transformations, opening up continually new perspectives on the design of social and artistic spaces for action in the recent past and present. The title Conscious Inability – a quotation from Stötzer – refers to the strategic infiltration of social and artistic norms.
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DISPLAY ( CONSCIOUS INABILITY #2, 2019 )
GfZK Leipzig
March 09 - Nov 17, 2019
March 09 - Nov 17, 2019
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VOIX
Katalog - Gestaltung Andrej Loll & & Simone Vollenweider
2019
2019
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VOIX
Photographische Dokumentation
Malerinnennetzwerk Berlin–Leipzig zu Gast im MdBK Leipzig
2019
Malerinnennetzwerk Berlin–Leipzig zu Gast im MdBK Leipzig
2019
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DISPLAY ( HEILANDSKIRCHE LEIPZIG, 2018 )
Die Offene Kunstwerkstatt praktiziert durch ein selbstverständliches und gemeinschaftliches Schaffen als Künstlergruppe Inklusion. Speziell für diesen Ort entstehen Malereien der Gruppe und werden in einer Installation der Leipziger Künstlerin Paula Gehrmann gefasst.
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DISPLAY ( RE*CREATION, 2018 )
Re*Creation; Group show at Fotograf Gallery Prag;
Part of Fotograf Festival 2018 "Non-Work: Occupied by Leisure Time”;
Curated by Elisabeth Pichler and Lena von Geyso
2018
Against the background of a constant demand for steady growth, innovation and originality, "Re*creation" addresses the double meaning of “re-creation” as “recovery” and “create anew”; reflecting on the relationship between production and leisure.
From June to July 2018 Paula Gehrmann has been part of MeetFactory’s residency program in Prague. For this exhibition we find a selection from the artist's photographic journals of her 28 days in this city embedded into architectural interventions - an invitation for recreation.
Part of Fotograf Festival 2018 "Non-Work: Occupied by Leisure Time”;
Curated by Elisabeth Pichler and Lena von Geyso
2018
Against the background of a constant demand for steady growth, innovation and originality, "Re*creation" addresses the double meaning of “re-creation” as “recovery” and “create anew”; reflecting on the relationship between production and leisure.
From June to July 2018 Paula Gehrmann has been part of MeetFactory’s residency program in Prague. For this exhibition we find a selection from the artist's photographic journals of her 28 days in this city embedded into architectural interventions - an invitation for recreation.
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OUT OF 28, 2018
20 Photobooks from C-Prints;
Detail 20180624
Detail 20180624
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DISPLAY ( BASED ON THESE NEW DEPENDENCIES WE DEFINE FIVE NORMAL FORMS, 2018 )
Site specific installation for "Based on these new dependencies, we define five normal forms" at Moscow Museum of Modern Art and part of Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2018;
Curated by Lena Brüggemann
The project aims to reflect on the evolution of social relationships, articulate unarticulated desires towards new relations and foster propositions on how we can live together. The exhibition and an education program accompanying it take as their starting point ideas of the socio-cultural and artistic movement Proletkult which, in particular, focused on the problem of the incompatibility of prescriptive management with the principles of self-organization. Drawing on the functions of the Soviet workers‘ club the exhibition space at 17 Ermolaevsky Lane acts as a place to experience art, a library, a training ground and an oracle — changing its function according to the activities taking place.
Curated by Lena Brüggemann
The project aims to reflect on the evolution of social relationships, articulate unarticulated desires towards new relations and foster propositions on how we can live together. The exhibition and an education program accompanying it take as their starting point ideas of the socio-cultural and artistic movement Proletkult which, in particular, focused on the problem of the incompatibility of prescriptive management with the principles of self-organization. Drawing on the functions of the Soviet workers‘ club the exhibition space at 17 Ermolaevsky Lane acts as a place to experience art, a library, a training ground and an oracle — changing its function according to the activities taking place.
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WEWILLNEVERMAKEIT, 2018
Fine Art Print various size;
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HERBST
Bistro 21 Leipzig
2017
Fixtures from Mdf and Plexiglas, Fine Art Print in varoius size;
Paintings: Benjamin Dittrich
The photographic work „Herbst“ was specifically developed in and around the exhibition space Bistro 21. Located in a neighbourhood in Leipzig east, an area that is historically shaped by a primarily working-class population. Through gentrification art spaces as the Bistro 21 already emerged in the last years, but still feel like aliens in this urban landscape. Gehrmann's installation of documentary style photographs and transmissible sculptures meander between a promenade on a nice afternoon and an observation of this transition. Transferred into the exhibition space with its big shopfront windows one is enticed to loose the division of here and there, inside and outside.
2017
Fixtures from Mdf and Plexiglas, Fine Art Print in varoius size;
Paintings: Benjamin Dittrich
The photographic work „Herbst“ was specifically developed in and around the exhibition space Bistro 21. Located in a neighbourhood in Leipzig east, an area that is historically shaped by a primarily working-class population. Through gentrification art spaces as the Bistro 21 already emerged in the last years, but still feel like aliens in this urban landscape. Gehrmann's installation of documentary style photographs and transmissible sculptures meander between a promenade on a nice afternoon and an observation of this transition. Transferred into the exhibition space with its big shopfront windows one is enticed to loose the division of here and there, inside and outside.
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HERBST, 2017
Fine Art Print various size
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DISPLAY ( NADINE RICHTER, 2017 )
supported by OKW Lebenshilfe Leipzig e.V. and Stadt Leipzig;
2017
2017
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DISPLAY ( IM_MOBILITIES, 2017 )
Galerie KUB Leipzig;
2017
2017
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IM_MOBILITIES, 2017
Fine Art Print 60x45cm
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DISPLAY ( LEGITIMATE REHEARSAL #2, 2017 )
Kunstraum D21 e.V. Leipzig;
2017
2017
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DISPLAY ( LEGITIMATE REHEARSAL #1 )
Kunstraum D21 e.V. Leipzig;
Curated by Katharina Zimmerhackl;
2017
The exhibition Legitimate Rehearsals declares the art space a test site, analyzing the potential of artistic approaches to reflect and question social processes through formal and aesthetic means. Which rules and laws are we following and how do we form social processes through them? How far can different or alternative social configurations be thought about and presented or practiced in an artistic space? In two exchanging exhibition-cycles – with seperate openings – the relations between law, power and social reproduction are renegotiated.
The work Display by Paula Gehrmann is reassembled by the artist spefically for each of these cycles. The architectural sculpture framing the artistic contributions and documentary photography of the participating artists and the changing constellations redefine and propose hidden social and spatial relations. Further, carrying customised surfaces from D21's depot, the art exhibtion as a medium and its performing elements, including the spectator, are revealed as fragmentary and transitory.
The work Display by Paula Gehrmann is reassembled by the artist spefically for each of these cycles. The architectural sculpture framing the artistic contributions and documentary photography of the participating artists and the changing constellations redefine and propose hidden social and spatial relations. Further, carrying customised surfaces from D21's depot, the art exhibtion as a medium and its performing elements, including the spectator, are revealed as fragmentary and transitory.
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LEGITIMATE REHEARSAL, 2017
Fine Art Print various size;
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CLAVIERS
Residency & Site Specific Installation;
Claviers, France;
2016
Claviers, France;
2016
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CLAVIERS, 2016
Fine Art Print 19.5x26cm mounted;
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VARIABLE
Photographic Sculpture;
2014
For one VARIABLE functions as a display. Used as an extendable module it can present imagery, objects and projection. Reduced on its sheer form the walk able installation with its rectangular surfaces also segments and frames its surrounding.
As the spectator moves through and around it his view is directed through the openings and closings of the sections and extracted images similar to the qualities of a photographic camera are generated. It is an offer to the spectator who can activate these processes through his own movement around as well by taking on the architecture.
2014
For one VARIABLE functions as a display. Used as an extendable module it can present imagery, objects and projection. Reduced on its sheer form the walk able installation with its rectangular surfaces also segments and frames its surrounding.
As the spectator moves through and around it his view is directed through the openings and closings of the sections and extracted images similar to the qualities of a photographic camera are generated. It is an offer to the spectator who can activate these processes through his own movement around as well by taking on the architecture.
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DIPLOM
Sitespecific Installation for Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig;
2015
For the diploma project the actual building of the Academy of Fine Arts becomes the focal point. In form of a site-specific installation it addresses the ending to my studies at this place. Eponymous of the work is a particular graffiti tacked on a toilet window at the academy: Immer wenn Du hier bist, bin ich woanders. (Whenever you are here, I am elsewhere.). It is an appropriate allegory that shows the attempt of addressing someone who like author and reader will unlikely come together simultaneously. Photography is similar, as it is also a conversation characterized by a kind of displacement and absence of what is captured in the image. Immersed in a certain melancholy, it is a visualization of a present that is never quite attainable to us. The idea of the academy as a transitory space of temporary collective is emphasizing these thoughts.
2015
For the diploma project the actual building of the Academy of Fine Arts becomes the focal point. In form of a site-specific installation it addresses the ending to my studies at this place. Eponymous of the work is a particular graffiti tacked on a toilet window at the academy: Immer wenn Du hier bist, bin ich woanders. (Whenever you are here, I am elsewhere.). It is an appropriate allegory that shows the attempt of addressing someone who like author and reader will unlikely come together simultaneously. Photography is similar, as it is also a conversation characterized by a kind of displacement and absence of what is captured in the image. Immersed in a certain melancholy, it is a visualization of a present that is never quite attainable to us. The idea of the academy as a transitory space of temporary collective is emphasizing these thoughts.
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DIPLOM, 2015
Fine Art Print various size mounted
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MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS
Cooperation with University Collections Leipzig, Ancient Museum & Egyptian Museum Leipzig;
2013 - 2014
Exhibition Architecture, Baryt and Fine Art Photography various size;
The extensive display questions the representation of ancient material and takes the focus away from its pure scientific or social and cultural value. Instead, it opens up to the sheer history that lies in its appearance/surface. Through materiality of the more than a hundred-year old wooden beams and the introduction of movement to the exhibition space, the display guides the visitor to the archaeological objects without barrier. In the Museum of Ancient Art and the Egyptian Museum Leipzig photographs of the draped artifacts and the sculptural display come together. By opening the possibility of reciprocal viewing they pursue yet a new past.
2013 - 2014
Exhibition Architecture, Baryt and Fine Art Photography various size;
The extensive display questions the representation of ancient material and takes the focus away from its pure scientific or social and cultural value. Instead, it opens up to the sheer history that lies in its appearance/surface. Through materiality of the more than a hundred-year old wooden beams and the introduction of movement to the exhibition space, the display guides the visitor to the archaeological objects without barrier. In the Museum of Ancient Art and the Egyptian Museum Leipzig photographs of the draped artifacts and the sculptural display come together. By opening the possibility of reciprocal viewing they pursue yet a new past.
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MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS, 2014
Baryt 13x18cm framed