2018 | photographs, projection, video, YouTube playlist, tape, drinks from Paris, invited artists, mail screenshots, overhead projector, lamp, skateboard, painting, drawings, vitrine with personal relics, Instagram posts tagged #notesfromaresidency | Stiftung Centre Culturel Franco-Allemand Karlsruhe

The real Retour de Paris is an intervention experiment. Over the course of three months, an office room of the foundation CCFA in Karlsruhe was transposed into a Cité Studio with all its essential elements.
By using installation, video, sound and performance, the peculiar character of an artist residency is examined. Human relations and social structures in the artist-in-residence microcosm are part of the investigation as well as the presentation concepts, methods and means of contemporary art.

 

2018 | 40 Scherdel Edelhell, selfies, chat screenshots

20 artists were invited by Anna Schütten for a show. As I could not be physically present for the set-up I left a crate of beer from my home town at her place in advance and took one with me to my residency place at that time. During the set-up I asked my fellow artists to open a beer, take a selfie, send it to me and I will do the same at my place.

2015 | one bottle of Hoepfner Pils refilled with acrylic paint | Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

 

2017 | 2 flippers consisting of 5 people each, director, passers-by | riverside Seine, Paris (FR)

By hand signs I open and close the flipper. That caused a new organization in the stream of the people passing by.

The flippers are Lisa Mühleisen, Rotem Gerstel, Laetitia Striffling, Sara Gianguzza, Julia Wirsching, Riki Werdenigg, Simone Etter, Neus Estarellas Calderón, Jacopo Salvatori  and Sascha Brosamer. Video: Eden Sarna. Thank you all!

2018 | carpet used for 54 years in the same place | 80 cm x 160 cm

2012 | Volvo V70, snow

AFFA introduces new rules and turns around the ways of moving.
The artist takes off in her own driveway, runs her car accross the street to the neighbour´s garage, backs up in the street and again into her own driveway. She stops at the point of departure, where the Volvo can be seen in the picture.
The snow is compressed by the weight of the car; it is condensed by the artist´s action, and a linear drawing evolves.
The action is continued, as Sophie Innmann removes snow.
With a shovel, she erases the loose snow next to the compressed snow, establishing a drawing in her driveway, the sidewalk and the neighbour`s driveway.
In a reversion of the original compaction process, a “negative” is created.
AFFA is based on an observation: when cars drive on snow, the snow usually disappears where the tires touch the ground but it stays everywhere else.
AFFA uncovers another possibility and reveals a new visual space.

Text by Leni Hoffmann, 2012

2018 | steel prop, 2 foam mats between garage door and ceiling

2018 | beer benches, architecture of my studio in Künstlerdorf Schöppingen