Untitled (portrait on a ladder) |
Untitled (boats) |
—Untitled (portrait on a ladder)
2009
Framed c-print
70 x 58 cm
Looking to the side, turned toward something outside the limits of the image, sits a young man on the top rung of a stepladder. His emphatically casual posture—arms folded in front of crossed knees and head turned away—cannot conceal a certain tension. The motif and composition feature strong references to classical portrait, advertising, and fashion photography, which Annette Kelm likes to employ in her works. The fact that the context is not predetermined but the situation depicted is not spontaneous but rather looks consciously staged suggests to the viewer a whole series of ideas for interpretation.
—Untitled (boats)
2009
Framed c-print
91,8 x 91 cm
In front of a rust red, loaded container ship, cruises a small sailboat colourfully decked out in flags and pennants. Next to the massive, machine powered freighter, which is monotonous in more than just its colour, the three-master seems narrow, fragile and individual, almost insanely adventurous. Although the image seems to have created spontaneously, the composition and the moment of exposure are precisely determined. Although no statement is laid down and many associations are possible, the juxtaposition of the two ships establishes a tendency.
Biography
* 1975 in Stuttgart
Lives and works in Berlin
Selected solo exhibitions
—2009
Herald Street, London
Camera Austria, Graz
KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Kunsthalle, Zurich
—2008
CCA Wattis, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Witte de With, Rotterdam
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
—2007
Johann König, Berlin
Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
—2006
Art Cologne - Award for Young Art, Artothek, Cologne
Selected group exhibitions
—2009
Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Kunstpreis Böttcherstraße, Weserburg, Bremen
—2008
Re-Used Modernity, Brussels Biennale, Brussels
—2007
9th Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Lyon
Made in Germany, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
—2006
Gold Standard, P.S.1 / MoMA, Long Island City, New York
Stipendium, Kunstverein, Hamburg
—2005
Stipendiaten 2004, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
Jetzt und zehn Jahre davor, KW – Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
—2004
Deutschland sucht, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Art Needs an Operation, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
—2003
Zimmer aufräumen, Zupfgeigenhansl Kommt!, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart; Kunsthaus, Dresden
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Untitled (portrait on a ladder) |
Untitled (boats) |