Opening event:
Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 7 p.m.
 
Exhibition dates:
February 6, 2007 - April 13, 2007
 
GALLERY hours:
Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
 

Nathalie Grenzhaeuser's photographs present a world related to ours and yet fantastic. Deserts, abandoned industrial landscapes, forsaken city and landscapes are recurring subjects, in which she probes the relationship between humans and nature. The staged barrenness and apparent "emptiness" provide the necessary space for a dialogue between association and memory.

Grenzhaeuser's photographs are not documentations. They are created in a complicated process: beginning with various photographic sketches, single moments and parts of a landscape are digitally woven together and sometimes freely "invented". Many small steps gradually transform the picture of the "original place". The photos' textures remind the viewer of film or stage sets, and they are often symbolically charged through their history.

Grenzhaeuser's new series "The Construction of the Still World" thematizes the arctic landscape. The individual photographs are called Kap Amsterdam, Svalsat, Zuckerhut, Hotellneset, Winkelstation, Treibgut and Schmelze. They were created in a two-month stay on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The work references the history of coal mining, the changes in the arctic landscape and its cultural-historical and emotional meaning.

Biography

Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, born in Stuttgart in 1969, lives and works in Offenbach a. M. She completed her studies with Prof. Hermann Nitsch at the Frankfurter Städelschule in 1997. For 1999/2000 she was awarded a travel scholarship by the Hesse Cultural Foundation. Working stays in Spitsbergen (2005-06) and Melbourne (2007).