Marianna Krueger »There is no place like home«
November 10 – November 24, 2007
Opening: Saturday, November 10 at 6pm

We are delighted to present, for the first time in this gallery, an exhibition of Marianna Krueger’s work.

Expanding upon and refining the thematic aspects of her previous pieces, Marianna Krueger’s »There is no place like home« continues to explore, here through the concept of ‘Heimat’ (literally: ‘home’), her fascination with identity, a notion central to her work. At once, the images’ motifs are consciously combined with a concrete sense of place (»Ausflug«, »Beste Freunde«) yet at the same time completely free of any specific social or cultural context (»There is no place like home«).

The images do not articulate a narrative; rather they discuss the ambivalence of the term ‘Heimat’ as, on the one hand, a self-sufficient, social and spatial environment and, on the other, as a contemporary, multi-media-inhabiting language which, whilst discarding reality and space, simultaneously creates a new, abstract identity. In this sense, the site of origin increasingly loses its meaning; in place of it, we find aspects of the individual, the dramatisation of a lived illusion (»Born on 1st of June 1926«). Traditional values, with regards to memories and acknowledgements of social patterns (»Partisan«, »Romeo & Julia«), are reduced to fragments of associated personality.

CV
1969 born in Usun-Agatsch (Kazakhstan)
1994-1999 Diploma in Fine Art, Prof. Arno Rink, at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany
2000-2003 Master in Fine Art, Prof. Astrid Klein, HGB Leipzig, Germany
2003-2006 lived and worked in Leipzig and London
2006 lives and works in Berlin

The exhibition will be open from Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Visits by appointment at 0172 373 11 10. Josef Filipp, Michaela Rosbach, and Jörg Rosbach look forward to your coming.

Other galleries openings: ASPN / Dogenhaus / Kavi Gupta / archiv massiv / www.SpinnereiGalerien.de