Marcus Kaiser has been exploring the concept of the image for almost 30 years. Following on from his work on “Artificial Ruins”, Kaiser photographed numerous destroyed and abandoned…
A four-dimensional representation of the topography of the city as a landscape in the virtual world: walkable, with refractions of temporal reality, disturbances in the structure, through data always in construction and destruction at the same time.
Marcus Kaiser’s overpainted photo tablecloths transform industrially manufactured mass-produced goods into unique pieces through painterly interventions, drawing on strategies of the artistic avant-garde. Through this intervention, he alters the gaze of images upon us and exposes their ideological charge. The works explore how images function as constructed spaces between everyday decoration and art-historical reference, constantly observing and influencing us.
This group of works takes up the photographic imaging process of the cyanotype and the photogram, as well as the context of the plant encyclopedia, to document genetically modified crops.
In the project “Berlin 90,” I explored Berlin’s urban landscapes photographically immediately after the fall of the Wall. The sudden absence of this omnipresent border structure created wide,…
Marcus Kaiser embedded camera obscuras into the Berlin Wall, turning the border itself into an image-making medium. The resulting diptychs capture East and West simultaneously, visualizing the act of ideological differentiation within the image. An experimental laboratory for third-order observation, critically reflecting and deconstructing political boundaries through the medium itself.
The hut is dark inside, on the floor in the middle there is a bright surface on which, after a few minutes, when the eyes have become accustomed to it, a picture emerges: A bird flies by, the panorama of the city in the background, an aeroplane holds course for a skyscraper, a skater passes by.
Supersam, built in the 1970s, was the first large supermarket in Poland, at the time an architectural and economic island of modernity in socialist Poland. Today it has become more of an expression of an outmoded collective consciousness. It still holds an intangible utopian promise …
Rudiments of institutionally mediated art education on the one hand and ever new signs of free, often wild, destructive creativity on the other. Partly standing next to each other incoherently, unconnected, overlapping and complementing each other, these remnants of various youth cultural forms of expression evoke an aesthetic that can also be found in current trends of contemporary art. He associatively gives the individual pictures titles such as “Meeze”, “Hirschhorn”, “Majerus”, “Planet of the Apes”.
In my work “Artificial Ruins,” I first examine the history and purpose of artificial ruins in landscape gardens. These architectural elements, which emerged in the 18th century, particularly…