LOCATION
Sauerland-Center
BILLBOARD
Videography
“Billboard” is a video montage that portrays the flow of cities. The motif worlds are recordings from ESA earth observation satellites; details of traffic facilities, including video recordings of the blasting of the Rahmede bridge; recordings of means of transportation such as bicycles, cars, trains and ships; receding landscapes and facades, including some motifs from Lüdenscheid such as the town hall or the Sauerland-Center.
“The Sauerland-Center stands prominently on the ring road. Although it is somewhat detached from the actual town center, it cannot be overlooked due to its size. The architecture is purely functional. I also use the façade in this sense: as an artistic information and display board, as a giant billboard that floats above the city and gives space to fantasies, speculations and associations for a short time .. ” explains Gudrun Barenbrock in preparation for her LICHTROUTEN installation.
The source material is both still and moving images, all color is abstracted to black and white contrasts. The different imageries overlap, macro and micro structures alternate, fast editing sequences are contrasted with slow sequences. By aesthetically processing the elements of urban living environments, the artist thematizes urban reality as one that is shaped by its traffic flows. “I am interested in concentration, expressiveness and radicalism,” she says.
GUDRUN BARENBROCK
From painting to videography: Gudrun Barenbrock has been developing video installations for 20 years. She photographs and films arrangements and structures, movements and systems. With her camera, she observes natural landscapes as well as urban, organic and industrial, macro and micro contexts. She decolors and overcolors, scales light values and contrasts, examines forms and gradients, adds or removes. This results in digital image fabrics that she shows as large-format projections.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE ATUMN PROJECT
2024 Cologne (de), ON PLINY’S PATHS
2024 Graz (at), KLANGLICHT Festival
2023 Cologne (de), ON PLINY’S PATHS
2023 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE International Light Art Porject
2023 Brixen (it), WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL Novacella Abbey
2023 Leeuwarden (nl), LUNA Leeuwarden Urban Night Adventures
2022 Tunis (tn), MISE EN LUMIÈRE Public Art Project
2022 Gelsenkirchen (de), GOLDSTUECKE Light Art Projects
2022 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE VISITING ARTIST
2022 MARburg (de), .KUNST.LABOR.STADT.PLATZ Public Art Projects
2021 Ingolstadt (de), LICHTSTROM International Light Art Project
2021 Cologne (de), UPDATE COLOGNE#04
2019 Hannover (de), KUNSTFESTSPIELE Herrenhausen
2018 Patiala (in), PANORAMA PUNJAB International Forum for Art and Culture
2017 Athen (gr), ATHEN BIENNIAL
Since 2005 Regular exhibition activities, mainly in Europe.
STUDIES
1993 Muenster (de), Art Academy: Diploma
BIO
Lives in Cologne (de)
LINKS
gudrunbarenbrock.de
@gudrunbarenbrock
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