Astrid Klein

Silence or another sound

10 March – 22 April 2022

Astrid Klein

Astrid Klein (b. 1951) is one of Germany’s most distinguished conceptual artists. In her large-scale wall works, the artist often combines found images with her own texts or quotations from philosophy, theory, or science to illuminate repressed aspects of the collective unconscious and question conventional power structures and modes of representation. Her oeuvre, which includes photographic works as well as neon and mirror sculptures, installations, paintings, and drawings, oscillates between poetry and critique, skepticism and longing.

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Klein treats image and text as visual elements of equal importance. In doing so, she not only strips the photographic source material of its narrative logic, but also endows it with moments of ambivalence and subtle irritation, engages sensually with media culture, and illuminates political and socio-critical issues. Whatever medium Astrid Klein uses, the viewer is ultimately always at the center of her work. Her works are intense and haunting, often triggering a surprising moment of reflection in the viewer – and a possible questioning of one’s own social constructs and the way one lives in the world.

Installation views

Selected works

Astrid Klein

Untitled (Neon)

2022
Neon sculpture: foil paint ochre painted on 85 metres of transparent tape, neon, neon ringe
250 x 100 x 50 cm

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Astrid Klein

Untitled

2020
Iridescent silver acrylic paint on canvas, ribbons
180 x 143 cm

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Astrid Klein

Untitled

2020
Iridescent silver acrylics on canvas
180 x 148 cm

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Astrid Klein

Untitled

2010
Iridescent silver acrylic paints on canvas, adhesive tape
180 x 130 cm

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Astrid Klein

Untitled

2010
Iridescent bronze acrylic on canvas
160 x 130 cm

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Astrid Klein

Ohne Titel (Cette mise à nu est déjà annoncée par le silence)

1980
Photocollage
196 x 140 cm
Ed. 2/3 Serie / Series: Broken Heart

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Astrid Klein

Ohne Titel

1996
Acrylic on canvas, tapes
150 x 130 cm

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Catalogue

Excerpt

“Breaking open a closed shape has been a theme of modernism since impressionism and cubism, and it is an inexhaustible subject. Its history shall be recalled here in a few broad strokes, because Klein has continued and expanded upon this line in the tradition of artistic thought in a remark-able way.”

Corinna Thierolf

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