Karin Sander: Karin Sander

Kunst Museum Winterthur presents a solo exhibition of Karin Sander’s work that opens on September 7, 2018. It not only deals with the architecture and collections of the exhibition venue, but also topicalises virtual and fictitious worlds. In the highly charged area between reality and fiction, Karin Sander has commissioned two acclaimed crime-fiction authors to write a story each especially for the exhibition. Unlike the usual catalogue texts that accompany art exhibitions, the text itself is turned into an artwork. Time and various perspectives, roles and the expectations of visitors are themes that run through the exhibition and Karin Sander’s work.

The two crime stories by renowned and award-winning authors, Zoë Beck and Oliver Bottini, carry the reader off to a completely fictional world that collides with the reality of the art created by the artist. But the ‘reality’ of the artistic work is also virtual, and can only be experienced by means of virtual-reality glasses.

The whole exhibition, which takes place at Kunst Museum Winterthur Beim Stadthaus and also in the Reinhart am Stadtgarten, takes the visitors and crime-fiction readers on a trip through the different dimensions of interpretation and reception. At the same time, the exhibition offers an overview of Karin Sander’s thematically and materially diverse oeuvre, which is provocative, but never fails to present important contemporary and future themes with humour and lightness.

The exhibition runs from September 8 until November 18, 2018 and is accompanied by a series of readings and artist talks. For more information, please visit https://www.kmw.ch/ausstellungen/karin-sander/.

Exhibition opening
September 7, 6:30pm, Oliver Bottini reads from his crime story ‘Wintertod’ (in German) 

Artist Talk: September 11, 6:30–8pm
Karin Sander in conversation with KMW director Konrad Bitterli 

Art and Architecture
October 9, 6:30–8pm, Karin Sander in conversation with architect Prof. Annette Gigon (ETH Zurich) 
 
The Future of Art
October 30, 6:30–8pm, Karin Sander in conversation with social psychologist and journalist Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer 

Finissage
November 18, 4pm, Zoë Beck reads from her crime story “Fake it - or it didn’t happen”

Background
Karin Sander was born in 1957 in Bensberg, Germany. She studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart and at the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum in New York with a DAAD Fellowship. From 1999 to 2007, Sander was professor at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee. Since 2007, she holds a professorship of Art and Architecture at ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Recent solo exhibitions include: ZEIGEN. An Audiotour through the collection of NMAO, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2018); KUNST, Esther Schipper, Berlin (2017); Visitors on Display, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (2013); Karin Sander, n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2011).