Bettina Pelz: Im Gespräch mit Judith Rautenberg

Die künstlerische Praxis von Judith Rautenberg ist Teil eines nachdenklichen Soseins als Bildhauerin und Lichtbildnerin. Sie hat die Welt gesehen, eine Reihe von Fotodokumentation belegen das sehr eindrücklich. „Ich habe mich schon immer für das Leben und das Menschsein interessiert. Deshalb habe ich vor der Kunst auch Ethnologie und Philosophie studiert, war im Journalismus tätig und bin viel gereist.” Ihre künstlerische Position hat sich entlang ihres facettenreichen Leben entwickelt,

On “Submergence” by Squidsoup

The installation “Submergence” by the transdisciplinary collective Squidsoup is set up at the Center for International Light Art in Unna (Germany). The artists are known for large-scale, digital objects and environments, and “Submergence” is one of their signature works. It is part of the current exhibition program “HYPERsculptures” on display from November 2022 to April 2023 with artwork by Christine Sciulli, Julius Stahl, Philip Vermeulen, and Giny Vos. “We’ve loved the subterranean vaults at Unna ever since first visiting around 2015

On FERMENT by Christine Sciulli

We met at the Center for International Light Art in Unna, where Christine Sciulli currently presents her site-specific installation FERMENT for the exhibition program HYPERsculptures, open to the public from November 2022 to April 2023. She is one of the participating artists along with Squidsoup, Julius Stahl, Philip Vermeulen, and Giny Vos. After descending 10 Meters into the Center for International Light Art, we enter the dark vaulted exhibition space which FERMENT inhabits. The ambiguous cloud before us seems to be a living organism.

Celica Fitz: Archiv visueller Gefüge und deren Varianz: Dateiordner:\Stadt

Über Gudrun Barenbrocks Videoinstallation “Re:mixed” in Marburg 2022 Während der nächtlichen Fahrt auf einer 12-spurigen Stadtautobahn in Shanghai nimmt Gudrun Barenbrock ein Video für ihr Archiv auf: Auf der Stelzenautobahn fahrend, fliegen die Silhouetten der Gebäude zwischen den Hochhausschluchten als abstrakt werdende Formen vorbei.

Ken Matsubara: From Photography to Light-based Media

It was in Gdansk, in 2010, when I saw Ken Matsubara’s photographic work for the first time at the Center for Contemporary Art CCA ŁAŹNIA. I was working on NARRACJE, an international art-in-public-space project, which I curated from 2009 to 2011. The title of the exhibition was “Archetyp Fotografii”

Shifting Focus

Whether artists are exploring line, color, shape, and form or space, time, and motion or sight and perception, at one point they arrive to light as material or medium to be included in artistic reflection and concept, impartially if they are working in the analog or the digital sphere. This is a collection of traces that can feed a mind map to formulate questions of analysis and inquisitive perspectives to follow up the developments of natural, technical, and digital transformation of light rendering visible the world.