Raphaela Vogel
The Dressage of Space:
Ziggurat of Dead Zones

Raphaela Vogel‘s works are often music and sound collages as well as video films inserted into sculptural and installative settings. The artist likes to use found objects, machines and techniques in addition to self-produced sound and visual material. Her multimedia and multidisciplinary works interact with the architectural and naturally occuring conditions of exhibition situations. The audience is thus given the opportunity to encounter unique experiences of space whose components cannot be separated and viewed in isolation from their specific surroundings.

For the exhibition at the Kunsthalle, Raphaela Vogel is creating an expansive installation. She combines a historical sled with newly produced steel elements designed like scales—a classic metaphor for justice—and incorporates a new film by the artist. The conceptual starting point is her personal experience with the economics of art, which she explores in a 14-part video projection.

Raphaela Vogel (*1988 in Nuremberg, lives in Berlin) studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. She has been a guest professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and is currently a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The artist has participated in the exhibition “The Milk of Dreams” at the Venice Biennale and had solo exhibitions at, among others, the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg; Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; Neues Museum, Nuremberg; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and Kunsthalle Basel.
 
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue produced by the Kunsthalle Giessen in collaboration with the Synagogue de Delme, France, the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin and Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France.