Susanne Pomrehn

Photographs convey memories, moments captured for eternity. In her sculptural wall pieces, the Berlin-based artist Susanne Pomrehn uses a scalpel to dissociate the invariable moment captured in the photo on the drawing board and thus destroy the structural order of the reality remembered in the picture. She reverses foreground and background, the picture frame attains a new form. Voids emerge and at times apparently unreal proportions have a disturbing effect. Folded and combined, the filigree, vivid cuttings protrude three-dimensionally into the space and fan out to installation-like photo bodies. The formal appearance of the photo sculptures dissolves the images even more, including a further level of interpretation. Pomrehn mostly works with compiled photographs that are closely linked to where they were taken - usually also the location of the exhibition. For example, "Wie bau ich einen Taifun? Oder die Säule der Verwaltung (How do I Build a Typhoon? Or the Column of Administration)" was created at the Kunstbank Berlin from photo fragments she took of the offices of the senate administration.

The artist's works are characterized by breaking free from two-dimensional photo art. This is performed by questioning remembrance and by opening the unity of time and image typical of photography.

Is it possible that the viewer changes his/her position, does he/she alter the construction of his/her memory, can other possible judgements be created in this way?

In the picture fragments, time, specific places, references to the city or to history are released to a sphere of constructed fantasy worlds. Pomrehn's fragmentations almost entirely dissolve the most various emotions, ideas, utopias, and conceptions of the world. The references to meaning in the photographs disappear.

Susanne Pomrehn, Detail aus der Installation - 6. Juli, 2006, Fotografien, Tape - im Rahmen von Adapter - In diesem Wald wird nicht gespielt, in der Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin

Curriculum vitae
1962 born in Brunsbüttel
1986-1995 Studium der Bildenden Kunst an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin
1993 Studium an der Falcudad d Bellas Artes Pays Basco, Erasmus, Spanien
  lives and works in Berlin

 

Susanne Pomrehn, Aktuelle Edition - finished_unfinished, 2007, Fotografien, Tape

Susanne Pomrehn, Gerahmte Wandarbeit aus der Serie - Minimal-invasive Handlungen, 2005, Fotografien, Tape


Susanne Pomrehn, Crystaline Thinking - aktuelle Installation, 2007, Fotografien, Tape, work in progress Situation im Atelier

exhibitions (selection)

solo exhibitions
2007 Interventionen, Kioskshop, Berlin
  Räumliche Visionen, Fotografie, Wien
2006 Kunstbank, Berlin, mit Anette Rose
2005 Minimal - Invasive Handlungen, Schwarzer Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
  Am Platz, Galerie Mesaoo Wrede, Hamburg
  Konstruktionen, ExitArt, Köln e.V.
2004 Zentrale, Kunstverein Köln rrh. e. V.
  Schlingungen, Kunstraum Jürgen Bahr, Köln
2002 Fliegen lernen, Technische Universität Berlin
2001 Zweiraum, Galerie La Girafe, Berlin

 

group exhibitions
2007 Art Karlsruhe
  GfkFB, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin
2006 aufgehägt und hingestellt, Galerie Ricarda Fox, Essen-Mühlheim
  Fotoloft 2, Kunstverein 6811, Köln
  In diesem Wald wird nicht gespielt, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin
2005 Bestandsausstellung, Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg
  Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt - Berlin
2004 Individuelle Zwischenstände, 12 in 15-Haushalt, Berlin
2003 Goldrausch, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2002 Hier-Anderswo, Kühlräume-Kühle Räume, Torstr. 111, Berlin

 

awards and grants
2007 Stipendium Künstlerstätte Schloß Bleckede
  Stipendium der Cranachstiftung, Lutherstadt - Wittenberg
  Förderung Kulturaustausch für räumliche Visionen, Fotogalerie Wien
2005 Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst des Berliner Senats
2003 Stipendium Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT, Berlin