culture trip: Top Emerging German Artists You Should Know

Stephanie Carwin

While her sculptures evoke some of the classic forms of modernist art – constructivism, suprematism, minimalism – Berlin-based artist Katja Strunz is more interested in the Nachzeit (aftertime) of such a legacy, one in which the traces of decay and collapse are highlighted rather than hidden. Working with a wide range of materials, from steel to paper, she investigates the folding and collapsing of time and space in varying scales. Recently showing at the Berlinische Galerie as the 2013 winner of the Vattenfall Contemporary, Strunz’s work has been seen in solo and group exhibitions around the world, and has entered prestigious museum collections such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

 

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September 10, 2023