Artist Talk with Katharina Kiebacher

22.11.2012

In the context of Deutsche Börse Residency Program

Katharina Kiebacher (*1974) is based in Berlin. As a photographer she addresses the question of the construct of images. Using the camera, she seeks out specific compositions and extract them from their given context, in order to reveal relationships that can act both as image and document.

She is fascinated by the architecture of Frankfurt as well as phases of architectural transition, which are made manifest by numerous demolitions and new constructions. During her stay at the Deutsche Börse Residency Program, she is searching out places which, when photographed as a two-dimensional image, suggest the closest proximity to abstraction possible. Kiebacher is on the lookout for details and snapshots in the city, whose image is currently being transformed extremely quickly and radically.