MKM Gallery
presents two diffracted photographic works of Berlin artist Katharina Karrenberg showing faces and effaced faces in the context of artistic research addressing the colonial imagination.
In this Solo & Friends, Karrenberg presents two transformative artistic variations of a West-African Colon Figure from the significant collection of the Berlin ethnographer and social anthropologist Heike Behrend.
Katharina Karrenberg (*1941) is a conceptual visual artist who develops research based photographic techniques referred to as reflectography / diffractography in site-specific installations. Her work-in-progress projects focus on the aesthetic, institutional and economic conditions of globalization, with particular attention given to structural violence and colonial imperialism.
Karrenberg has held various solo and collective shows in places such as the PS I Institute New York 1991, Sprengel Museum Hanover 1997, Gropius Bau Berlin 2003, Niblock Gallery, Gent 2011, Czapski Gallery, Poznan 2014, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin 2017, Kunsthalle Bern 2018, and many more. Her recent exhibitions include COLONS. Decolonial Textures at Villa Romana, Florence 2022, GHOSTS IN THE ARCHIVE at Zaratan Arte Contemporanea, Portugal 2019, among many.
The artist lives and works in Berlin.
The works presented in this exhibition are a long term loan for Meine Kleine Mnemosyne.
