Katya Sander

Monument for Image Production and Image Consumption

Katya Sander’s work “Monument for Image Production and Image Consumption” was realized on July 6th, 2004 as a response to an invitation to propose a contemporary monument for the city of Copenhagen. The work consists of a newspaper published and distributed in Copenhagen and the surrounding suburbs in collaboration with one of the largest national daily papers in Denmark, Politiken. 6 July Politiken was published in two versions: the normal version, and another version exactly like the normal, except that all text and numbers were missing. The text-less version of the paper was given away for free along with any purchase of a newspaper that day. Sander addresses in her work the duality of the monument in the way it on one hand often has come to exist as manifestation of historical significant course of events, but on the other hand in a present perspective often is conceived as representation of the same event, thereby in itself producing the very points along which history is seen to unfold (as the line connecting them up to the present). Addressing the way in which monuments tend to memorialize specific events in time as holding historical significance, “Monument for Image Production and Image Consumption” set out to simply make visible, the network of image distribution in the way it regulates the visibility of such historical ‘events’ in the present. “Monument for Image Production and Image Consumption” questions the notion of history implicit in historical monuments, by infiltrating the very network that distributes images in a manner that suggests that there are no longer any monumental events. Sander’s work puts forward the question whether the present has declared history over and done with by means of endless and constantly changing images that are produced only to be consumed and in the next minute disposed of.

KATYA SANDER

Born 1970 in Copenhagen, Denmark, lives and works in Copenhagen/DK and Berlin/D

Solo exhibitions & projects

"The Most Complicated Machines Are Made of Words”, MuMoK / Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 2005

 

"Was ist Öffentlichkeit?", München Kunstverein, München, Germany, 2004

"Hyrdehøj Settlement", a 2 year long collaboration with architects and urban planners on designing social housing in a new part of the city Roskilde, 2002. Construction start: April, 2003

 

"Safety Graffitti" for 9 1/5 Castles, in Eslöv, Sweden, 2001.

 

Group exhibitions

Documenta 12, Kassel

Paradox and Practice – Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism, University Art Gallery, UC Irvine, L.A., USA, 2007. Curated by Juli Carson.

Regarding Denmark, Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece, 2006

How To Do Things (In The Middle of Nowhere), ICCA, Bucharest, Romania, 2006

Capital (it fails us now), Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia. (Cat.). Curated by Simon Sheikh, 2006

Ortsbegehung 11, Handlungsformate, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (Cat.). Curated by Marius Babias, 2005.

Western: Terms of Use, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (Cat.), 2005. Organized by Katya Sander with Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes & Camille Norment.

Bibliography

The Most Complicated Machines Are Made of Words, contributions by K. Sander, S. Hayes, C. Höller and A. Wege, Matthias Michalka (Ed.), MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Revolver, 2005

Ortsbegehung 11, Handlungsformate: Laura Horelli, Daniel Knorr, Katya Sander, Marius Babias (Ed.), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Silke Schreiber, 2005

Niemand ist eine Insel, Lichthaus Plus Neue Kunst: Projekte 2001-2004; Michel Dector/Michel Dupny, Katya Sander & Alex Villar, Simon Starling, Knut Eckstein. Contributions by M. Heller, H. Hellmann, H. Griese, P. Coubeterques, J. L. Schröder, S. Berg, V. Achumacher, E. Achmidt, published by Lichthaus Plus Neue Kunst, Revolver, 2004

Essay, by Lars Bang Larsen, [a-n] Artists Newsletter, U.K., Jan. 2003.

In Translation, by Benjamin Young, published in ’Social Sectors’, catalogue for the exhibition of the same name, Vienna / New York, 2002.
Download full catalogue: www.davidreedstudio.com/newimagesforweb/social.sectors.cat.pdf

The Politics of Space. Double Cinema and the Installations of Katya Sander
By Simon Sheikh, published in ’AUSSENDIENST’, Hamburg, 2001.

Short Text on Katya Sander, by Lene Crone, published in Konst Beeld , Amsterdam, 1998.

Safety Guarantee, by Lars Bang Larsen, published in Art&Text, #66, 1998.

 

Links
www.katyasander.net
http://mo-nu-ment.dk
http://www.visibleblindness.se
http://www.republicart.net/disc/institution/sander01_en.htm