Some portraits from Hongkong from the series »国庆节 Nationalfeiertag« are currently exhibited in Düsseldorf besides works by Klaus Mettig, Akinbode Akinbiyi and Tobias Zielony as part of »Eine Straße« by MAP Markus Ambach Projekte, curated by Pola Sieverding.
Katja Stuke, Mimic Exhibition: May 17.–Jun 2, 2024 SITTart im Atelierhaus Sittarder Str. 5, 40477 Düsseldorf as part of: Düsseldorf photo+ Festival
The «multiverse« of Katja Stuke is black and white. It consist of various types of images: photographs by the artist, material found in archives and through internet-research, generated images by text-to-image KI, screenshots from blockbuster-movies, video-games, Second Life or other online virtual-spaces. Pixel-like the video reveals little by little different layers of photographs of architecture or landscape, (parts of) bodies or abstract images. At a pace so the eyes of the viewer get a filmic impression of different realities. Adapting these visual multilayer the sound by Axel Ganz follows this idea and add several audio-layers to the images. The exhibition also includes another video „Xerox Quad“ with a rhythmic beats by Thomas Klein and some photographic notes by Oliver Sieber.
OFFSCREEN invites you to its second edition from October 18-22 2023 at The Grand Garage Haussmann, an incredible new venue in the center of Paris. OFFSCREEN will present a curated selection of solo shows dedicated to installations, still or moving images.
For OFFSCREEN, Katja Stuke presents various portraits photographed between 2000 and 2020, from the Supernatural series, whose highly ambivalent title refers both to the faces photographed and to the photographs themselves. Through this series, the artist works on the tension captured by the photo, whether it’s the tension before the pistol shot in this portrait of a woman whose extremely colorful outfit fades into the background, or the tension that lies before an athlete’s jump. This tension, directly linked to an action in progress and the central object of Katja Stuke’s portraits, initiates a process that can no longer be reversed. Katja Stuke is presented by Florian Ebner, Director of Photography at the Centre Pompidou, who has supported the artist’s work for many years. read more »»
»Seit 2019 beschäftigt sich der Düsseldorfer Musiker Pondskater aka Axel Ganz mit Live Coding, einer Technik, bei der das Schreiben von Quellcode und interaktives Programmieren in improvisierter Form im Mittelpunkt stehen. Elementarer Teil seiner Performance ist es, den Schreibprozess des Quellcodes durch eine Raumprojektion seines Monitors für das Publikum sichtbar zu machen. Hinzu kommen weitere visuelle Ebenen, die von der Düsseldorfer Fotografin Katja Stuke gestaltet wurden.«
GRUNDAUSCHEN 7. URBAN SPACE VIDEO WALK Sept 22, 2023, 7 pm WELTKUNSTZIMMER Düsseldorf Cătălina Bucos & Ada Kopaz, Laure Catugier, Robin Moedder, Leniko Sennoma, Katja Stuke, Nils Woitschach. (photos: Rainer Rudolf Benoit, Katja Stuke)
Katja Stuke und Stefanie Pluta arbeiteten seit März 2020 an einem gemeinsamen Projekt, das den Austausch von Bildern, die Thematik des Foto-Archivs und den Gebrauch sozialer Medien verhandelt und reflektiert. Aus einem, während des ersten Corona Lockdowns gemeinsam genutzten Instagram Account ist nun eine Publikation entstanden, die im Verlag Strzelecki Books erscheint und im Rahmen der Photoszene United in Köln präsentiert wird. mehr »»