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.
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
Astrid Klein
Untitled
2020
Iridescent silver acrylic paint on canvas, ribbons
180 x 143 cm
Astrid Klein
Untitled
2010
Iridescent silver acrylic paints on canvas, adhesive tape
180 x 130 cm
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
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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