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Cold Lens as a Filter

Sophie Wohlgemuth — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:04:21 +0000

This catalogue, in digital format, is a search for traces by a visual artist who explores the material dimensions of photography in expansive mixed-media installations. Cold Lens as a Filter brings together Jana Müller’s works from 2001 to 2023 and makes the complexity of her artistic research visible and tangible through various forms of media.

In her email correspondence with the New Zealand artist Matthew Cowan, which took place during the Corona pandemic, the artist provides insights into her photographic working methods. She outlines a practice that combines photography as a communicative and documentary medium with the process of archiving and its artistic translation.

She documents, among other things, legal exhibits in the evidence rooms of cities in Germany, re-enacts the police search of her parents’ house 13 years after the actual event in 1990 and artistically examines a playground with its special history as a background. For her, the use of glass as a working material is both functionally and conceptually an important filter for historical aesthetics, temporary architectures and the absent as information. Within these strategies, Müller’s photographic practice is an inventory of real and fictional events that address claims of the legal and artistic truth of objects.

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Never Mind the Nineties

janine — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 09:31:55 +0000

While the 1990s are in the process of becoming history, the book project is conducting an archaeology of the documents and remnants that remain of it: This archaeology of the 1990s deals with an in-between time that, as a “recent past” (Walter Benjamin), has not yet become binding history.

Newspaper — »Archäologie autonomer Zeitungen in den 90ern: scheinschlag und A.N.Y.P.« — conversation with Ulrike Steglich and Stephan Geen

Archive — »Es wird gewesen sein: (Über)Leben und Arbeiten im post Futur II-Zeitalter.« — conversation with Bettina Allamoda

Office — »Wir wollten, dass auf der Ebene der Produktion miteinander gesprochen wird.« — conversation with Waling Boers

Sound carrier — »Diese Verweigerungshaltung, die kann ich total nachvollziehen.« — conversation with Mo Loschelder

Video — »Wie besetzte ich ein Haus, und wie berichte ich darüber?« — conversation with Manuel Zimmer

Poster — »So inszenieren wir die Stadt!« — conversation with Carl Hegemann and Bernd Frank

The series of talks took place as part of the research project Autonomy and Functionalisation — a Cultural-Historical-Aesthetic Analysis of Art Concepts in the Visual Arts in Berlin from the 1990s to the Present at the Berlin University of the Arts, funded by the Einstein Foundation.

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