Kathrin Sonntag
October 1 – December 30, 2011

Plamen Dejanoff
October 1 – December 30, 2011

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Opening
Friday, September 30, 2011, 6 pm

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The work of Kathrin Sonntag (*1981, lives in Berlin) are comparable to  
a prolonged blink. Things of everyday life are seen and seen again,  
and suddenly, within one glance, a brief blinking of the eyes and the  
next glance, a shift occurs that gives one pause. In her objects,  
photographs, slide series, and installations she addresses perception  
and the limits between fiction and reality. Everyday objects take on  
an uncanny quality in her works, due precisely to their familiarity  
and this subtle shift. The chance moment of "seeing afresh" becomes  
the starting point for a staged composition that calls normal ways of  
seeing into question.

In his work, the artist Plamen Dejanoff (*1970, lives in Vienna) often  
uses marketing strategies from related fields and creates desire by  
means of sleek and glossy surfaces and stage-setting principles  
borrowed from the world of consumerism. His approach to these  
strategies that are apparently foreign to art is a friendly one and  
can be tied to a lineage that includes artists like Andy Warhol—who  
must surely be considered the trailblazer—and Jeff Koons. He is, in  
fact, closer to the latter, as far as the creation of objects and the  
treatment and handling of their fetishistic character is concerned.  
For many years, Dejanoff has been planning and developing “The Bronze  
House” for the Bulgarian city Veliko Tarnovo. In the city centre,  
Dejanoff has acquired a number of building sites on which he is  
erecting house sculptures of bronze. They are being arduously  
constructed by hand in separate elements, so that since 2006 progress  
on the first of five planned building sculptures, which will in total  
cover 600 square metres, has been advancing in various stages of  
production and in cooperation with various exhibition venues. The  
Kunstverein will show more bronze-elements as well as models, drafts  
and objects in context of parallel installed walk-in sculpture in the  
HafenCity.

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