Foto: Christine Lipski

Statement

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Simone Karl's works deal with issues of - mostly feminist and queer - physicality, animated things and the human influence on society. The human being is always present as a key figure of the organic, of consuming and producing, but is mostly only visible through his traces in everyday objects, photo fragments or as temporary scheme.

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As the child of a family of craftswomen, the material, form and purpose of an object are essential means of communication for the artist - a haptic language that, through experience in everyday use, can also function beyond verbal language. Collecting found objects and materials - or more generally: things - is therefore an essential part of her artistic approach. Libraries of meaning and materiality are created in which the thing becomes a bearer of meaning and thus lays the foundation for every artistic project.

Playing with materials and things can be understood as a process of collage. A constantly developing new construction of meanings encompasses multimedia the artistic channels of object, installation, collage, performance and video. The work always takes place with the physical participation of the artist herself, whereby repetitive processes are an essential part of the conceptual working process. The weaving of thousands of latex gloves or the surgical cutting of collages is just as much a part of the work as the material itself.

The almost devotional focus on the thing in itself also stands for a current religion of plastic and reckless consumption, which transforms artificial objects into maximally desirable objects of pleasure and throws them away the next moment: the thing in itself is worthless - an object that only gains or loses value through human use. In addition to collecting, animation of these things is also part of Simone Karl's artistic process. The ruled and forgotten object becomes an emancipated subject and continues to exist in a kind of haptic afterlife. This creates an - sometimes almost uncomfortable - atmosphere of not being alone.
 

Scholarships

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2021 Claussen-Simon-Fonds für Kunst, project funding for 137 - materiality of femicides, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung

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2020 Was zählt!, project funding for Somatisches Bauen, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung

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2020 Kunst kennt keinen Shutdown, project funding for We got used to this world. Now we change into another., Hamburgische Kulturstiftung

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2020 #takecare, project funding for Somatisches Bauen, Fonds Darstellende Künste

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2019/2021 Studio scholarship at Mümmelmannsberg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg

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2018/2019 Annual scholarship stART.up, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung

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2014 Project funding, HAW Hamburg

Residencies

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2021 Goyki 3 Art Inkubator, Sopot (PL)

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2019 REFUGIUM, Presidio da Trafaria, Trafaria/Lisbon (PRT)

2019 Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede (DE)

2018 Layerjeva hiša, Kranj (SVN)

2012 Associazione Progetto Turistico Civitella d’Agliano (IT)

Awards

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2020 Anfachen Award (DE)

2019 Nominated for the Blooom award, Dusseldorf (DE)

2019 Winner of the Art-in-Architecture competition, Bodenheim (DE)

2018 Nominated for the art award of the city Fürstenwalde (DE)

2018 Winner of the "Construct Deconstruct" competition, Forward Festival (AT/CH)

2017 Collage award of the Willi Münzenberg Forum Berlin (DE)

2014 :output Award (DE)

2014 Winner of the "Mut zu Wut" poster competition (DE/GB)

Education

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2014-2017 HAW Hamburg (MA), class Prof. Christian Hahn

2013-2014 FAU Erlangen

2009-2013 GSO Nuremberg (BA)

Teaching Experience

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2021

am anfang war das ding, Workshop, TH Nürnberg, Department Design

Ideenfindung - oder: wie man beim Spaziergehen den heiligen Gral findet, Workshop, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung

2019 

Huldigung des Unscheinbaren, Workshop, Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Stadtteilschule Mümmelmannsberg

2018 

House of Memories, Workshop, Layerjeva hisa, Kranj (SVN)

Press/Text

2021

Die Papierkörper von Simone Karl, Dr. Franziska Storch, text

Ideenfindung, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung, blog

Im Kunsthaus Hamburg heißt es "weiter machen", Hamburger Abendblatt, press

Schichtarbeit, Anne Simone Krüger, text

Collecting yourself/Notizen des Sammelns, Christiane Opitz, text

Rendez-vous mit dem Körper und den Dingen, Katharina Groth, text

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2020

Lauter gefährliche Liebschaften, Erlanger Nachrichten, press

Im Kraut der Sinne, Nürnberger Nachrichten, press

Narratives of Women / Togetherness Magazine / Millerntor Gallery, magazine

Anfachen Award, NDR Kulturjournal, interview

Somatisches Bauen, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung, blog

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2018


KAOS – festival sodobnega kolaža, Gorenjski Glas, press

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2017

Posture Magazine, Issue 4, feature

Downtime, Sydney Collage Society, feature

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2015

Handelsblatt Hamburg, press

Indie Magazine, Issue 47, magazine

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2013

Kaltblut Magazine, feature

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Catalogues/Books

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2021

noli me tangere, catalogue

Collecting yourself/Notizen des Sammelns, catalogue

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2020

Wir haben uns an eine Welt gewöhnt. Wir gehen in eine andere über., artist book

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2019

REFUGIUM, catalogue

SHIFT - beyond the binary, catalogue

KAOS International Festival Of Contemporary Collage, catalogue

Collagistas Festival, catalogue
Position.Forum/Ausstellung, catalogue

Worpswede 2019, catalogue

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2018


Mann fällt in Loch, weil er denkt, es sei Kunst, catalogue

9. Miniatur in der bildenden Kunst, catalogue

KAOS International Festival Of Contemporary Collage, catalogue

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2017

Der stille Organismus, catalogue

Posture Magazine, Issue 4, feature

Beautiful Monsters, Collagistas Festival, catalogue

MAKING THE CUT Vol.1 - Worlds best collage artists, art book

2016 


Bruderherz, artist book

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2015

add art vangard, catalogue

Indie Magazine, Issue 47, magazine

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2013

Kuboshow Messe für junge Kunst, catalogue

Ich bin es nicht. Ich bin´s., artist book

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

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2021

Collecting Yourself/Notizen des Sammelns, Galerie im Marstall Ahrensburg, Ahrensburg (DE) 

[.] weiter.machen, Kunsthaus, Hamburg (DE)

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2020

Anfachen Award, Winner exhibition - Hamburg 

Fass das nicht an - Altes Zollamt Rothenburgsort, Hamburg (DE) 

Körper - ORi, Berlin (DE) 

2019

SHIFT - beyond the binary, Frappant, Hamburg (DE)

Collagistas Festival, Maison du Peuple de Saint Gilles, Brüssel (BEL)

Position/Forum, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg (DE)

KAOS International Festival Of Contemporary Collage, Layerjeva hiša, Kranj (SVN)

Neue Einheit, Raum linksrechts, Hamburg (DE)

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2018


Mann fällt in Loch, weil er denkt, dass es sei Kunst, Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg (DE)

9. Miniatur in der bildenden Kunst, Kunstgalerie Altes Rathaus Fürstenwalde (DE)

New Rave, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg (DE)

KAOS International Festival Of Contemporary Collage, Layerjeva hiša, Kranj (SVN)

HAARPR8, Atelier der Kosmonauten, Berlin (DE)

disappear, Edel Extra, Nürnberg (DE)

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2017

Was nützen Ihnen die Tatsachen? Wenn sie nicht wissen, was sie damit anfangen sollen, Willi Münzenberg Forum, Berlin (DE)


Konnexion, Raum linksrechts, Hamburg (DE)


Collagistas Festival, Stecca 3.0, Mailand
 (IT)

Moon Exhibition, Alte Kongresshalle, München (DE)

2016 


add art, Schipper Company, Hamburg
 (DE)

Hexagon, Galerie Supplement, Göttingen
 (DE)

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2015

Rundgang, Finkenau, Hamburg
 (DE)

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2014


Sommerkollektion, Quelleversandhaus, Nürnberg
 (DE)

Mut zur Wut 2014, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Berlin, London (UK/DE)

London
Queer Ass Unicorn Festival, K4 Nürnberg
 (DE)

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2013

Werkschau der Absolventinnen, TH Nürnberg (DE)