Katharina Fengler, SHE SHED at Warhus Rittershaus

Katharina Fengler

SHE SHED

Opening Friday, June 3, 2016, 6-9pm

Exhibition June 4 – July 15, 2016

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Please join us for our ADS1A BARBEQUE during the opening
with some wieners (+ veggie stuff) and cold drinks.

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Katharina Fengler’s work mesmerizes in its dauntless use of color. It has a dazzling, absolute presence – a lure that is hard to withdraw from. As part of her large airbrushed works, foreground becomes background as colors fade into each other on the wrinkled, structured Tyvek that she employs. In these swaths of merging colors diverging elements surface – scribbles, brushstrokes, cut-out images – all equally hovering on a plane with no perspective. In their different materialities, these gestures range from awkward and dripping, to sly and shy, to forceful and assertive. Breaking open the purely abstract, the images included and the titles given make reference to contemporary culture – current forms of lifestyle connected to nutrition, make-up, or gender roles; the changing obsessions with the body induced by consumer culture.

Melanie Bühler, freelance curator/researcher, Amsterdam 2016

SHE SHED is Katharina Fengler’s first solo show as solo artist in Germany. She presents new large-scale paintings on Tyvek as well as mixed media salt dough objects. The title of the show is a neologism referring to little garden houses designed especially by and for women as counterparts to the slightly more popular ‚man cave‘ or ‚mantuary‘. Without any aspiration of wanting to depict ’she sheds‘, Fengler adopts the term metaphorically to challenge the expectations that are (still) bound to assigned work, gender and lifestyle norms.

Katharina Fengler lives and works in Berlin. She studied Photography at Zurich University of the Arts and received the City of Zurich Fine Arts Grant. Her solo exhibitions include Galleria Acappella (Naples), CACTUS contemporary art space (Liverpool) and sic! Raum für Kunst (Lucerne). Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at institutions such as Istituto Svizzero Milan, Kunstverein Schwerin, and Centre Pompidou Paris. Most recent shows in 2016 include ‚Face to Face: A Selection of International Emerging Artists from the Ernesto Esposito Collection‘, Palazzo Fruscione (Salerno) and ‚Fengler-Geelen-Taccetti‘ at Cinnnamon (Rotterdam).

Supported by Gaffel Kölsch & Lucas Baden Creativ GmbH

Same time same place:

Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens
– Jan Scharrelmann
Krupic Kersting Galerie
– Irma Markulin
Berthold Pott
– Herbert Zangs
ADS1A Projectspace
– Arlene Gottfried, Joe Neave, Daniela Wolfer