Published on the occasion of Nina Könnemann's eponymous exhibition at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, this double volume brings together two central strands of the artist's work.
Blocken explores vision as a situated practice within the temporality of real-time. In choreographed live-filmmaking-performances, multiple camera perspectives generate a layered visual field, shaped by overlays, collective decision-making, and the tension between control and improvisation. Further Reductions engages a sculptural approach that applies prehistoric flintknapping techniques to industrial sanitary ceramics. The resulting objects emerge from a deliberate interplay of precision and chance—oscillating between tool, fragment, and sign, and articulated through a gesture that reflects cultural imaginaries of origin and history with both critical distance and speculative resonance. Together, the publications offer insight into a cross-media practice that negotiates the relationship between perception, materiality, and mediality—between fleeting presence and temporal depth.
Nina Könnemann (born 1971 in Bonn, Germany) is a contemporary video artist. In her work, Könnemann explores how people behave in public spaces, focusing on marginal areas, everyday behaviour, and subcultural dynamics. With precision and astute observation, she documents movements shaped by latent social conventions. Her camera often captures the transitional zones of public events: spaces on the periphery of festivals, demonstrations, sports events, and the traces people leave behind at such mass gatherings. Könnemann condenses these seemingly insignificant moments into filmic reflections on unnoticed social mechanisms, creating portraits of contemporary life through unofficial narratives.
