Underskog

Opening reception Friday 24th of February @ Grünerløkka Kunsthall (only this evening)

When Katrin Connan is installing, making pictures and writing lyrics, both visible and invisible things are sharing space and giving each other attention. It is a walk between imagination and reality, and while you get lost in-between you also open up a room, where one is not detachable from the other. Changing the way your perceive them, material and form are exchanging their roles

They are asking and telling, about the possibility of an authentic being and shining, about contradictions and the funny way they exist together, about a pursuit of catching all aspects of things by both changing and keeping the point of view at the same time.

Guessing that even a mask is telling the truth, Connan combines different ways to look at something. That is how a drawing is taking place beside a song and an object responds to their dialogue and so on.

The installation „Very Important Tragedy“ is about dealing with tragedy in a consciously serious but also lighter way.

Katrin Connan (born in 1979 in Bermen, Germany) studied art and scenography at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany. She currently lives and works in Berlin. Her installations, drawings, collages and texts have been widely exhibited, and some of her solo shows include “Vor Lauter Purpur” in Galerie 18m, Berlin, “Phosphor Forever” in Skalitzer140 temporary, Berlin, “Less Is Not More If You Kiss Me Once” in Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg und “Du und ich im Dickicht” im Westwerk, Hamburg. Besides making her own work she also takes part in the artist duo “Helga Sandra-Barbara” with Nadine Droste, and the music-performance-duo “Die Roquettes” with Marko Pauli.