Media Release CARAVAN 2/2015: Sarah Burger

Media Release
Aarau in April 2015
CARAVAN 2/2015: Sarah Burger
Series of Exhibitions of Young Art
1 May – 16 August 2015
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
The Glarus-based artist Sarah Burger (b. 1982) is realising two new
site-specific works for the foyer of the Aargauer Kunsthaus. By
using large-scale panels of fabric with landscapes printed on them,
she skilfully plays with various interior and exterior views.
Rather than presenting her art in an exhibition space as is usual, Sarah
Burger creates two site-specific works for the foyer of the Aargauer
Kunsthaus. In keeping with the CARAVAN exhibition concept of a "mobile
intervention," Burger seeks a dialogue with the light-filled, striking
museum foyer designed by Herzog & de Meuron. She creates installations to
explore the places in the Kunsthaus where interior and exterior virtually
merge — especially at the large glass façade which separates the museum
from the traffic junction Aargauerplatz. By placing them at the thresholdless windows, the large images printed on flowing fabric can be seen both
from the inside and the outside. Sarah Burger confronts the views of the
city with computer-generated "pictorial landscapes."
Whether printed or downloaded from the Internet, photographs and found
imagery are an important component of Burger’s artistic practice. In
addition to other objects, images of modern architecture, ancient Egyptian
sites, Greek sculptures, sublime mountain landscapes, and a camel train
passing are among the elements incorporated into her installations,
sculptures, and video pieces.
The artist creates her poetic and reflective collages digitally by
superimposing images in layers and transforming as well as deforming them.
In spite of the deliberate reworking, chance plays a not insignificant role
in the process of pictorial invention. Burger’s works for Aarau testify to
a pictorial magic whose presence is resonant with the absence of what is
represented and the temporality of images.
Sarah Burger, born in Glarus, Switzerland, in 1982, lives and works in
Zürich and Berlin. 2001—09: Studies philosophy, comparative literature, and
linguistics at the University of Zürich. 2005—7 Master of Arts in Public
Spheres (MAPS), Ecole cantonale d’Art du Valais (ECAV) in Sierre, Canton of
Valais. 2009 - 2011 Master Degree in Visual Art at the Haute école d'art et
de design (HEAD) in Geneva. 2012— Postgraduate studies at the Hochschule
der Künste (ZHdK) in Zürich und Kunstuniversität Linz.
Selected Solo Exhibitions to Date: SONNENANBETER, zwanzigquadrat-meter,
Berlin
(2014);
Other
episodes,
with
Pascal
Danz,
Blancpain
Art
Contemporain, Geneva (2014); référence au lieu, Ss. Peter and Paul Church,
Bern (2013); Géométrie du temps, Schauplatz, Galerie Schauort, Zürich
(2013); Matter of Shape, Galerie Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva (2012);
Angesichts der Leere einen Schritt, Marks Blond New Space, Bern (2008)
Selected Group Exhibitions to Date: MOMENT!, Kunstverein Göttingen,
Göttingen (2015); A Place like This, Kunsthaus Glarus (2014); Jardin sec,
Urgent Paradis and Lausanne Jardins, Lausanne (2014); pro positions, nargallery, Biel/Bienne (2013); Equus, Fondation La NEF, Le Noirmont (2013);
Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, New Delhi
(2013); In absent Places We Dwell, Piano Nobile, Geneva (2012); Swiss Art
Awards, Basel (2012); ppp - Progr Performance Plattform, Bern (2011);
(RE)CONSTRUCTED, Kunsthaus Glarus (2011); Anonymous Gibsmir Art Auction,
K3, Zürich (2010); Hard Copy, Live In Your Head, Geneva (2010);
Hyperactivity, Summerlab, CAN, Neuenburg (2010); Mulhouse 008, Mulhouse
(2008); Grat-Wanderungen, Kunsthaus Glarus (2007); Diplomausstellung MAPS,
ECAV, Sierre (2007)
Selected Awards and Grants: UBS Advancement Award (2013), Studio Grant of
the Canton of Glarus (2012); Prix Galerie HEAD, Geneva (2012); Grant of the
Canton of Glarus (2007)
Curator
Katrin Weilenmann, Assistant Curator, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Preview for the Media
Thursday, 30 Apr. 2015, 10 am
Welcome address by Madeleine Schuppli, Director, Aargauer Kunsthaus;
introduction by Katrin Weilenmann, Assistant Curator, Aargauer Kunsthaus.
Sarah Burger will be present.
Exhibition Opening
Thursday, 30 Apr. 2015, 6 pm
Welcome address by Madeleine Schuppli, Director, Aargauer Kunsthaus;
introduction by Katrin Weilenmann, Assistant Curator, Aargauer Kunsthaus.
Artist’s Talk
Thursday, 4 June 2015, 6.30 pm
Sarah Burger in conversation with Gioia Dal Molin, art historian, Zürich,
and Katrin Weilenmann, Assistant Curator, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Images for the Media
Images are available for downloading on our website
www.aargauerkunsthaus.ch > Media. Please consider the copyright.
Opening Hours
Tue – Sun: 10 am – 5 pm; Thu: 10 am – 8 pm
Holiday Opening Hours
Open 10 am – 17 pm: Labour Day/May Day, 1 May 2015; Ascension Day, 14 May
2015; Whitsunday, 24 May 2015; Whitmonday, 25 May 2015; Eve of Maienzug, 2
July 2015; Maienzug, 3 July 2015; Swiss National Holiday, 1 Aug. 2015
For additional information please contact
Katrin Weilenmann, Assistant Curator, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Tel. +41 (0)62 835 49 72, email [email protected]
Filomena Colecchia, Media/Communication, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Tel. +41 (0)62 835 23 34, email [email protected]

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