Instagram Takeover 2022

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If you've ever wondered how artists prepare for an exhibition, whether artists also work in a home office, what it's actually like in a studio, or which artists serve as inspiration, then click through. Since April 2020, we have been giving artists the floor and let them use our Instagram account. Take a look at new works, directly into the studio or be in the middle of the exhibition setup.

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Johanna Reich

Johanna Reich explores the complex shifts in our perception in the age of digitisation. In minimalist video performances, she explores the boundaries of real, virtual and painterly imagery and directs the viewers' attention to the effects that the merging of the net world and the real world have on our everyday lives. Thematically, her work revolves around presence and absence, dematerialization and disappearance, the visible and the invisible. Johanna Reich lives and works in Cologne and has held a visiting professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich since 2020.

Ani Schulze

Ani Schulze's films, drawings, sculptures and installations interweave visual worlds in which history and stories are circled in dreamlike, surreal images. A recurring element is the human body and its porosity to the environment, technology, fantasy and control. Non-linear narratives playfully unfold into visual collages, overlapping assigned roles and temporalities. In doing so her work plays with the familiar while arousing suspicion. Ani Schulze currently lives and works in Braunschweig.

Simon Modersohn

Simon Modersohn's paintings are enigmatic, melancholic pictorial worlds that present the familiar in an irritating way. His still lifes are characterized by elements of the absurd or the fantastic, as well as strange details that allude to the obviously grotesque and uncanny in art. Equally mysterious are the images of seemingly everyday situations of village life, which in their dreariness at first create an oppressive, sad and claustrophobic feeling. The supposed desolation of the subject is taken almost to the absurd in a sovereign lightness. Thus it is those supposedly fugitive moments that sustainably engage our imagination.

Sara Sizer

Sara Sizer's works are paintings, but not made with paint in the conventional sense. They are created from stretched, raw cloth which has been manipulated to reveal images. The bleaching of red velvet or raw linen, removing the threads from canvas, spray painting on crumpled linen, or ink laid out on velvet to be sucked up through capillary action to create landscapes or abstract family portraits are some ways Sara Sizer achieves vastly different visual results. Nonetheless, all of these results are locked within the circle of their own making.

Evan Roth

For the past 15 years, Evan Roth has been making work in arts institutions, in public spaces, and on the internet, resulting in paintings, installations, videos, and websites. Based in Berlin, Roth's practice visualizes, archives, and challenges our perceptions of typically unseen aspects of rapidly changing communication technologies. Often by way of unintended uses of tools and technologies, his work addresses the personal and cultural effects surrounding these changes and the role of individual agency within the media landscape. A

Viktoria Binschtok

Viktoria Binschtok lives and works in Berlin. In her photographic works, she examines circulating images of our globalised world. Through appropriation strategies, she transfers found visual material from diverse sources into new contexts that allow an unusual view of current image culture. In serial and installative groups of works, she addresses the dynamic status of the medium of photography and its permanent interaction between online and offline spaces.

Sara Cwynar

Sara Cwynar lives and works in Brookly, NY. She is an artist working in photography and video. Her photographs often take the form of sculptural constructions that are photographed, printed, tiled, and re-photographed as new images. Her videos similarly combine existing images from a personal archive to remix and re-present familiar imagery. She strives to situate an individual approach within the shared visual codes of popular culture. Her video, »Glass Life«, a six-channel video installation, examines the way that truth gets constructed and solidified through images, and how we absorb narratives that are presented to us as true.

Elena Subach

Elena Subach is a Ukrainian artist and curator living and working in Lviv. She collects peculiarities of local cultures which are on the edge of extinction due to globalization and poverty. Her work celebrates the inconspicuous objects that often evade attention, elevating them to near iconic status. The main topics of her photography, the medium she mostly works with, are life in the province, religion, connections between mythology and identity, her private relations with the world and her own country, with life and death. »Elena Subach is a tender observer of small moments and daily rituals.« says Polish photographer Rafał Milach. »She mixes memories, tropes and clichés, continuously drawing on and reimaging the visual identity of Ukraine.«

Vivian Greven

Vivian Greven’s painting is based on an adept play with various notion of bodies, being and representation, with concepts of classical antiquity merging with pop art and digital image worlds. Her painting is characteristic of our present times, which are shaped by the internet and social media and thus dissolve the hierarchies between original, reproduction and simulation. Parts of her painting rise as actual reliefs that encounter sprayed or painted fictions of bodies and space. The aesthetic of her pictures vacillates between the vocabulary of physical painting and the ethereal illusion of LCD windows.

Thomas Baldischwyler

Baldischwyler's artistic practice is difficult to grasp because his working methods and contexts change depending on the subject and context. He has been awarded many prizes and scholarships in recent years, including the Förderpreis of the Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster and the Edwin Scharff Prize in Hamburg. His art has been shown in exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Great Britain, Italy and Australia.

Alice Channer

Alice Channer is an artist working with sculpture. Her forms and materials are found in the sensual and social worlds of industry and nature. Over long periods of time, she immerses herself in industrial and natural materials and production processes. From this experience, she develops forms into sculpture that is both emotionally charged and industrially perfected. Her method is experimental and precise, collaborating with people, machines, and materials to bring multiple bodies and voices into her polyphonic works.