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The view through a window always provides a picture. But if you look closely, there are several. You see what is behind the pane, as well as the reflection of what is opposite, the light that shines in different intensities and the shadows that are refracted through the glass.
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“Single or repeated folds introduce an abstraction to the silkscreens, emphasizing the paper’s movement over its original image. Through these folds, self-contained motifs unfold, offering different and sometimes peculiar perspectives, revealing upon closer inspection a realistic interpretation of sports gymnastics.”
Schere, Stein, Papier
Katharina Stumm carves new passageways into existing spaces, draws fragile, new walls out of paper. This construction, which was created specifically for the rooms of the Kleine Altstadt Galerie in cooperation with the Outer Circle, twists the space it occupies by destabilizing the orienting dichotomies of above and below, front and back.
Die Welt nun
Inside the room, there is a smaller room, and within that, an even smaller one. You can peer or walk through the walls, or follow the nearly labyrinthine path. Photos are hung on paper strips that form the walls, creating a space with no clear inside or outside, yet inviting closer inspection. This is ‘The World Now.’ Photos taken by Elena Hofmeister during her year-long stay in China are displayed at Galerie Au in Munich, where Katharina Stumm skillfully brings together different worlds with sensitivity.
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In a room that screams with time past, the artist has traced the very silent passage of time through light and shadow. She has followed the wandering shadow with paper strips and has woven a cloth that then, hung, creates its own dance with light and shadow.
Carte Blanche
With the installation Get your Sequence Katharina Stumm presents her diploma exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, class of Gregor Hildebrandt. The expansive paper work spans from the ceiling as a woven open space. The different heights of the fragile walls blowing in the wind open ephemeral accessways. On an adjacent bench are five books representing an archive of over 1000 postcards sent by the artist to friends and acquaintances in the period from April 27, 2015 to July 7, 2019.