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»PLANET A«

PLANET A presents work series from the last fifteen years that focus on the movements of the earth and of the elements which occur across vastly different scales of age and scope, thus establishing a distinct relationship with our human measure of time and space. The book provides a sensual insight into Kati Gausmann’s artistic practice, which combines studies in natural science and the humanities, studio work, and artistic methods deployed in on-site fieldwork. The various landscapes in which the works were created and the natural processes underlying them are poetically conveyed. Hanne Loreck’s essay unfolds the complexity of this artistic practice, situates it within the current discourse, and highlights topical questions related to the planet and to the Anthropocene.

Available in Berlin at bookshops including Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz, do you read me and Hopscotch Reading Room, can be ordered in any bookshop.

textem Verlag, Hamburg
ISBN: 978-3-86485288-6, 29.00 Euro
Open thread-stitching in slipcase, German / English, 28 x 22 cm, 144 pages, 106 colour images (23 of which are double-page), with a text by Hanne Loreck, design by Carsten Stabenow milchof.net
Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin and the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn.

Artist Statement

I am fascinated by geological processes and how little we perceive the earth movements in which we are unavoidably implicated.

My research involves tracing this activity.

I want to understand the interaction of time and space:
the activity as a whole, how it comes about, and me in my human measure.

My artistic approach is process oriented.
It combines drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance.

My practical work is accompanied by theoretical discourse.
Artistic expeditions and fieldwork represent a significant part of my work process.

Projects

fieldwork

Many of my works have been created in fieldwork in recent years. In this blog you can find impressions from working residencies in the Icelandic East Fjords and on the Reykjanes Peninsula, in the Spanish High Pyrenees and in Northern Norway as well as topics related to these stays.

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einszueins

In my project onetoone – Art at the Røyal Bakery, I present and mediate contemporary art within the context of everyday life in Berlin. During the exhibition, the artists barter their work for a daily supply of bread.
After 8 years and 24 exhibitions in Berlin-Rixdorf, the Røyal Bakery and its art project continue in Wismar since autumn 2024.

Current exhibition einszueins (29) Unberechenbares Zusammenspiel by Katrin von Lehmann until March 6, 2027.

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artists group msk7

Since over 20 years, I have been developing site-specific, temporary projects in public spaces with the artists’ group msk7.

msk7 are Mona Babl, Kati Gausmann, Ricarda Mieth and Anja Sonnenburg.

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