- Event
Artist Talk
with artists Marie Rief, Stefanie Seufert, and Silja Yvette, and curator Anna Voswinckel
As part of the exhibition Architecture of Hidden Activity – The Physical Dimension of the Digital, the Galerie im Körnerpark invites you to a discussion moderated by Anna Voswinckel with the artists Marie Rief, Stefanie Seufert, and Silja Yvette.
Topics to be discussed include material as an independent dimension of experience and the cycle of innovation, extraction, processing, use, storage, and disposal. Marie Rief’s patent documents, transformed into glass objects, address the regulation of information. Stefanie Seufert renders the everyday gestures of screen use aesthetically legible in photograms through her own fingerprint. Silja Yvette focuses on industrial packaging and the casings of technical devices, as well as their life cycle, moving between photography and sculpture.
Marie Rief studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts. In her work with glass, analog photographic materials, and reproduction, she explores themes of exhaustion, repetition, hermeticism, disappearance, and invisible (infra)structures. Her interest in glass stems from its properties as a storage medium, as a key component of displays, and as a central material in information infrastructure.
Stefanie Seufert studied photography at the Lette Verein and the Berlin University of the Arts. Her practice constitutes a visual exploration of the extent to which photography reveals or, rather, constructs reality, and examines the relationship between image and reality. She consistently views photography as an experimental field, as a process of seeing and creating, and blurs the boundary between image and object.
Silja Yvette studied fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Drawing on her background in architecture and philosophy, she combines practical aspects of material culture and ecology with theoretical references to cultural criticism. She is interested in processes of innovation and exnovation. Her works emerge from the tension between nature, the human need for invention, and the social interactivity of the invented.
Anna Voswinckel is a curator based in Berlin with a background in fine arts, cultural studies, and gender studies. She curated Camera Austria in Graz. She writes about art (for publications including Texte zur Kunst and Frieze), teaches photography (at institutions including the Berlin University of the Arts, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and the Braunschweig University of Art), and produces photography and book projects.
The event will be held in German.
