BARBARA KOCH | Room Installations | Wall Objects |

BARBARA KOCH | 2 PROJECTS
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PROJECT: Rubber Souls, 2013
“Rubber Souls was created for the Kunstverein Neckar Odenwald in the rooms of their former old slaughterhouse. Based on the original purpose of this place and the legally regulated, subsidized and bureaucratically organized “cultural technique” of slaughter, questions arise about how society deals with the maximum exploitation of sentient beings and the collective.”

“I am interested in the boundaries between temptation and poisoning.
In my works, I enact the estrangement between the natural and social environment as possible damage to our vision. While doing so, I investigate the relationship between power and helplessness.”

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Barbara Koch was born in Wuppertal in 1961. Her primary studies field was Graphic Design at the FH Dortmund, focusing mainly on experimental painting/object with Prof. Margareta Hesse. In 1997 she received an Erasmus scholarship, studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, and graduated in 2005 with a diploma in fine art.
Since 2007, Koch has been a member of the Künstlerhaus Dortmund and received the international advancement award “Young Art 2000” Hamm, followed by the international Art Prize DEW 21, Dortmund, where she was awarded the 1st prize in 2006.
In 2020 she received the Grant 7000 Butterflies for the North City – Vacation in the Bronx for her unique Participative/Interdisciplinary Art Project for Wellbeing and Biodiversity, Sociocultural Fund. And in 2021
Koch received the Scholarship Virtual Tour Pocket Garden, BBK Federal Association, Restart Culture for Innovative Art Projects.
Koch’s work has been published in many international publications and exhibited at international galleries and art fairs, including at the latest Discovery Art Fair | Cologne, where her work was represented by galerie134.

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Warteraum 1 (Waiting-Room 1), 2005/2006 | “The installation is composed of two different units: sculptures and wall objects. The first unit of the installation is the serial work NIPS consisting of several granule-filled sculptures with latex skins, which are irregularly distributed in the room. They stand, sit, lie, curl up, etc. The installation is composed of two different units: sculptures and wall objects.
The Cubes/I-V are covered with transparent latex coats, which remind us of human skins.
A flexible tube of approximately 1-2m in length protrudes from the middle of each cube’s frontal part.”

A part of my work is color-intensive, dazzling luminous, and partly poisonous appearing wall objects from silicon attracting or repelling proliferating structures.
For example, superficial feelers, tentacles, excrescences, and blisters leave in their exclusive, independent language of shapes in the classical image format. They extend into space, thus blowing the image space and form.

Since 2005 space-filling installations have been occurring alongside. In my serial line of the so-called “Waiting rooms,” I produce places of observed protection and endangered calmness.
They are time zones of stoppage, even of autobiographic origin, dedicated to different, generally accepted themes.
The production “Waiting Room I” reflects, for example, last but not least, the performance and efficiency idea of our time. “Waiting Room V” broaches out kafkaesque, the (piecewise) disappearance of the human being from daily life.
To the extent my theme requires, I combine it partly with the materials found with technical components like kinetics, audio, and video sequences.

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Galerie143 was founded by the art historian Simone Czech in Dortmund in 2010.
In 2018 the galerie143 moved to Lörrach in the tri-border area of France, Switzerland, and Germany.
In four solo exhibitions and one group exhibition annually, we show positions from Fine Art Photography, painting, and installation.
The main focus of the gallery is the promotion of young artists.
In addition to the in-house exhibitions, we conceive and implement external projects and are involved in external initiatives and collaborations. Since 2013 the galerie143 has participated in art fairs.

Simone Czech. 79540 Lörrach
Tel.: +49 7621 5898422

e-Mail: info@galerie143.de
Website: www.galerie143.de
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