contemporary painter | work architecture, inner pictorial spaces and curatorial legibility
Bringing a growing oeuvre into a clear form means more than just organizing it: It means making work contexts visible, naming pictorial spaces and creating a basis for collectors, curators and institutions.
With Tilde Anna Jäger, BURN-IN is working on the precise visualization of a multi-layered life's work. The focus was not only on gallery representation, but also on the task of structuring an extensive oeuvre in such a way that its inner logic, its recurrence and its transitions become legible. Various creativity techniques were used in workshops, including mind maps, brainstorming, target/actual analyses and strategic reflections on standing, vision, mission, goals, SWOT and USP. This resulted in a portfolio that provides a narrative guide - as a basis for collector communication, institutional discussions and future exhibition contexts. The fact that the work has already been accompanied by museum directors such as Wilfried Seipel and Berthold Ecker underlines this connectivity.
An essential step was the development of the five image spaces: FamilyResonance, WildSpuren, SieSpricht, SeelenPartitur and ZeitZeichen. They give the work orientation without smoothing out its ambiguity and make visible what is explicitly described in the book concept as work architecture, orientation and inner logic. Parallel to this, "Seelen-Ökologie statt Oberflächenkultur" (Soul Ecology instead of Surface Culture) was created as a central approach to the content, as well as the planned artist's book "Seelenwetter" (Soul Weather) as an editorial framework, which linguistically deepens the work and contextualizes it for exhibitions, institutions and later estate management. The book is designed as a path through the oeuvre and works with building blocks such as Prologue, The Voice, Interpretations, Thoughts, Work Architecture, Orientation, Inner Logic and Coordinates.
This process was supplemented by a photo shoot in the studio and the digital recording of selected watercolors in order to secure fragile and finely nuanced groups of works in high quality and prepare them as the basis for a later catalog raisonné. Thus, step by step, a well-founded archive is being created that combines an overview of the work, art position and long-term estate management. This is precisely where the strength of BURN-IN lies: a grown collection does not become a static archive, but a readable, sustainable body of work - with substance for the present and prospects for the future.
A work of this density not only needs visibility, but also a form that reveals connections, provides orientation and thus creates the basis for the exhibition, collection and future.
A work of this density not only needs visibility, but also a form that reveals connections, provides orientation and thus creates the basis for the exhibition, collection and future.
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Strategic basis for institutions and museum contexts
Workshops, creativity techniques, stocktaking and sharpening of the artistic statement create a resilient basis for curators, collectors and exhibitions.
The five pictorial spaces as an orientation system
FamilienResonanz, WildSpuren, SieSpricht, SeelenPartitur and ZeitZeichen make the work readable and curatorially connectable.
Digital archive, photo shoot and work digitization
Studio photos, digital recording and archive development create a sustainable basis for work overview, visibility and estate management.
Book project as an editorial reference space
With "Seelen-Ökologie statt Oberflächenkultur" and the planned artist's book "Seelenwetter", an in-depth framework for understanding the work, context and future is being created.