Natascha Süder Happelmann
Natascha Sadr Haghighian is an important voice of contemporary art. In her
work she unfolds the poetic, imaginary and critical potential of art. She
stands for an artistic position that not only analyses or comments on
aesthetic and scientific concepts and social or
political
conditions, but actively changes them. Within each working process the
artist develops a new understanding of her role and a new approach.
She primarily creates works in the fields of installation and
performance,
text and
sound. As an
individual or collective artistic position, she frequently allows her
practice to flow into political, social processes. She addresses the
activist aspect of artistic work and reassesses the conditions and spaces
for aesthetic research and artistic action. Disconnecting the artist from
representative roles or political instrumentalisation has always been an
integral part of Natascha Sadr Haghighian's artistic practice. As early as
2004, the artist initiated the CV exchange platform bioswop.net, where
concepts such as identity, representation, facts and self are renegotiated
and the fetish of the "artist's biography" is undermined. For
her participation at the German pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale, she
intentionally misspelled her name as "Natascha Süder Happelmann".
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
Comprised of a series of texts, drawings and photographs, this catalogue
documents and expands on the multimedia installation by "Natascha Süder
Happelmann" (Natascha Sadr Haghighian), an artistic reflection on ruinous
space (catalogue of the German Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale).