Andrea Grützner
Andrea Grutzner uses analog photography in her artistic process with assorted lights and gels, creating photographs that are simultaneously abstract and representational. According to the artist, "Shadows are traces and marks that have a direct relation to the object, but through the projection, these objects can appear twice as big or transformed and changed, they take on their own lives" and thus, "they work a lot like memories." She explains that her pictures refer to her personal perception of built environments and their histories, and in a more general sense, how architecture affects emotion and a collective identity.
Grutzner has had solo exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, Australia, Galerie Rundgänger in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Museum Pfalzgalerie in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Ter Hell Haus in Hamburg, Germany, Julie Saul Gallery in New York, NY, Kunstverein Lüneburg in Germany, Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin, Germany, Mittelrheinmuseum Koblenz in Germany, Walzwerk Düsseldorf in Germany, and Gallery Coucou in Kassel, Germany. She has had group exhibitions at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall in London, Red Hook Labs in New York, 68projects (Galerie Kornfeld) in Berlin, FOAM Talent 2016, Unseen Photo Fair, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, ISSP 2016 Exhibition in Kuldiga, Latvia, Pfalzgalerie in Kaiserslautern, Germany, …
Andrea Grutzner uses analog photography in her artistic process with assorted lights and gels, creating photographs that are simultaneously abstract and representational. According to the artist, "Shadows are traces and marks that have a direct relation to the object, but through the projection, these objects can appear twice as big or transformed and changed, they take on their own lives" and thus, "they work a lot like memories." She explains that her pictures refer to her personal perception of built environments and their histories, and in a more general sense, how architecture affects emotion and a collective identity.
Grutzner has had solo exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, Australia, Galerie Rundgänger in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Museum Pfalzgalerie in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Ter Hell Haus in Hamburg, Germany, Julie Saul Gallery in New York, NY, Kunstverein Lüneburg in Germany, Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin, Germany, Mittelrheinmuseum Koblenz in Germany, Walzwerk Düsseldorf in Germany, and Gallery Coucou in Kassel, Germany. She has had group exhibitions at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall in London, Red Hook Labs in New York, 68projects (Galerie Kornfeld) in Berlin, FOAM Talent 2016, Unseen Photo Fair, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, ISSP 2016 Exhibition in Kuldiga, Latvia, Pfalzgalerie in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Exposure Twelve in Berlin, Germany, Robert Morat Galerie in London, Britain, and Gallery Seoul in South Korea.
