July 18-22, 2024
ART OSAKA Expanded Section with Gallery Sekiryu
Creative Center OSAKA, 4-1-55 Kitakagaya, Suminoe-ku, Osaka, 559-0011 JAPAN
Gallery Sekiryu will be participating in the ART OSAKA 2024 Expanded Section. This section focuses on large-scale works and installations that expand preconceived notions of art, with each gallery presenting site-specific exhibitions in a solo exhibition format by the artists.
Our gallery will feature Astrid Köppe, a Berlin-based artist who centers her work around drawing. Born in Köthen, Germany in 1974, Köppe will exhibit her installation "PARAMNESIA" in a corner of a designated modern industrial heritage shipyard, evoking layers of time.
Since 1999, Köppe has been creating enigmatic objects in her drawings, incorporating a wide variety of visual information such as plants, animals, minerals, and fungi, all depicted with a delicate and sophisticated touch. These objects evoke various associations in the viewer but ultimately remain unresolved, leaving us in a peculiar state of suspension.
In this installation, which extends her drawing approach into three dimensions, familiar everyday objects undergo unexpected proliferation and congregation, creating entirely new and strange scenes. The title "PARAMNESIA" refers to a memory disorder where reality and unreality blend together, symbolizing Köppe's attempt to destabilize our stable perceptions and memories.
Köppe's works have been exhibited extensively in Europe, the United States, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, and are included in public collections such as the Kupferstichkabinett of Berlin, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig, and Hamburger Kunsthalle. This time, the installation will be presented alongside Köppe's drawings and her other lifelong work, large enamel pieces (metal panels painted with vitreous enamel and fired), providing a comprehensive experience of her multifaceted practice.
Astrid Köppe's world, characterized by a pleasant dazzle and a ticklish sense of humor, will be presented as an immersive space incorporating sound and light. We hope you will be able to visit and enjoy the exhibition.
