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Kathrin Sonntag

This Was Tomorrow Once

Kathrin Sonntag  This Was Tomorrow Once

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Born in 1981 in Berlin, Kathrin Sonntag received a BA and an MA in visual arts from the Universität der Künste, Berlin (2000–06). Interested in exploring the boundaries of perception, Sonntag distorts, refracts, and fragments quotidian objects in order to inspire her audience to untether their preconceived ways of looking and seeing.

Encompassing sculpture, photography, film, and drawing, her work is a complex analysis of the nature of objects and the division between fiction and reality. Using stools, tripods, tables, and mirrors to create unusual perspectives, Sonntag’s installations strip meaning from readily identifiable objects via photographic experiments within the confines of her studio. Mittnacht (2008) comprises 81 slides of found images of paranormal phenomena photographed among the artist’s studio tools and furniture. The supernatural elements are enhanced by their disorienting placement within the studio that both creates illusions and allows errors and smudges in processing to cast an eerie shadow on certain images in the series. In Wood Mirror (2010), a small mirror appears to point outward toward the viewer but fails to reflect the expected image, instead revealing a nearby object. Similarly in the photograph flic-flac #1 (2009), mirrors distort the viewer’s perspective of the dairy creamer depicted, causing one to question how a mirror can simultaneously reveal, reflect, and conceal. Through such manipulation of material, Sonntag challenges the infallibility of documentary photography and uncovers inconsistencies within the nature of the visual record.

In 2011, Sonntag was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austaunsch Dienst) research scholarship; in 2009, she received both the Swiss Art Award and the Preis der Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim-Stiftung. Her work has been installed in solo presentations at a range of international institutions including white light, Düsseldorf (2007); Galerie Kamm, Berlin (2009, 2011); Swiss Institute, New York (2009); and Kunstverein, Hamburg (2011). Her work has been shown in multiple group exhibitions, including those at Frieze Art Fair, London (2007); FLACC, Genk, Belgium (2008); FormContent, London (2009); and SculptureCenter, New York (2010). Sonntag lives and works in Berlin.
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source: madeingermanyzweide

Nichts ist, wie es scheint in Kathrin Sonntags Arbeiten. Ihre zumeist in installativem Zusammenhang präsentierten Fotografien, Collagen, Skulpturen und Filme kreisen um die Bedingungen des Wahrnehmens, Beobachtens und Erkennens.
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source: periferiach

Kathrin Sonntag, 1981 in Berlin geboren, lebt und arbeitet dort. Sie studierte bis 2006 an der Hochschule der Künste Berlin (BA und MA) bei Prof. Lothar Baumgarten. Nach einem Stipendium der deutschen Studienstiftung zeigte sie Arbeiten in Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen in Museen und Galerien im deutschsprachigen Raum u. a. in London, Paris, New York, Miami. 2009 erhielt sie den Swiss Art Award sowie den Preis der Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim Stiftung.

Sie studierte bis 2006 an der Hochschule der Künste Berlin (BA und MA) bei Prof. Lothar Baumgarten. Nach einem Stipendium der deutschen Studienstiftung zeigte sie Arbeiten in Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen in Museen und Galerien im deutschsprachigen Raum sowie in London, Paris, New York, Miami … 2009 erhielt sie den Swiss Art Award sowie den Preis der Dr. Georg und Josi Guggenheim Stiftung.