In the exhibition “3”, Anna Livia Dörr, Veronika Günther and Niloufar Shirani are showing a selection of current works, including installation, sculpture, video and painting.
Anna Livia Dörr seeks an experimental approach to ceramic masses, exploring their characteristics, allowing breaks and fragments to exist. Her ceramics are image, image carrier and sculpture in equal measure, and her handling of line, surface and color is partly graphic, painterly and partly sculptural in nature. Anna Livia Dörr’s works deal with challenge and loss of control, approach and distance and the uncertainty in between.
Veronika Günther draws mainly from memory. Images from everyday life appear in her drawings as well as motifs from literature, film and other mass media, memories and scraps of dreams. Personal and public material intertwine to create an associative narrative with a cinematic character. Reduced to the essentials, distortions in perspective and anatomy arise and bring an incalculable element of visual humor and poetry to the scenes depicted. In the installation The End in the Kunstarkaden, the artist shows text images made of fabric with lyrics from songs, such as Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen, on the themes of transience, loss and the uncertainty of the future.
Niloufar Shirani engages in a profound dialog with the myths of ancient Persia and links them with the life experiences of contemporary people. In her works, the relationships between humans, animals and nature are continuously repeated and interwoven. Ancient symbols are reinterpreted through modern science and technology as well as in medical and anatomical forms. In doing so, she unfolds a puzzle of non-linear narratives. In the Kunstarkaden exhibition, Niloufar Shirani presents installations of her ceramic sculptures combined with video and images.