Every trace tells a story,
even if it soon fades.
Movement leaves traces. Not always visible, often fleeting - but never completely lost. In the BURN-IN exhibition TANZ DER STILLEN DINGE, Hannah Kaufmann makes these traces tangible. Drawing, photography, sculpture - three media that are not juxtaposed here, but rather charge each other. Kaufmann's art is not merely a documentation of movement, but its transformation - a preservation of traces in the best sense of the word.
In her drawings, she explores the choreography of everyday life: paths that are taken again and again are condensed into fine lines, movements into stored memories. Her photographs not only capture the moment, but also condense time, turning standstill into movement in the imagination. Her sculptures? They bring movement into the space, continuing the volume of the bodies they touch as an invisible presence.
Padé püree is what Kaufmann calls one of her groups of works - a homage to the fleetingness of the moment. Time and space overlap, objects take on the leading role and become the intersection of past and present. The jeans series, in turn, tells of biographical transformation: fabrics that no longer fit mark identity, growth and change. Fellarbeit traces the sensuality of touch - the tactile memory that remains stored in the fibers of a fabric.
The exhibition is not a static construct, but a moving cosmos. The spatial staging plays a central role: a room-high textile sculpture creates a physical presence that can be felt. Items of clothing float seemingly weightlessly as an echo of past movements. The objects in Kaufmann's work enter into a dialog with each other, with the space and with the viewers, who are invited to question their own perception of movement and stillness. Touching always remains a desire that permeates the moment.
DANCE OF SILENT THINGS is a poetic reflection on the invisible in the visible, on the resonance of the past in the present. Hannah Kaufmann not only documents movement - she makes it tangible that even in our supposed immobility, we are constantly leaving traces. She doesn't just make things dance - she makes them speak.
Vernissage
BURN-IN invites you to the exhibition opening on 13. March 2025 6 pm.
Location
BURN-IN Galerie im Gerngross 2. OG | 1070 Vienna, Mariahilfer Straße 42-48
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Movement as a process - art as a trace.
Everything is in motion. Even where we don't expect it. In my work as the founder of BURN-IN, I look for art that is not only viewed, but experienced - art that does not freeze time, but makes it visible as it inscribes itself into our consciousness. Hannah Kaufmann succeeds in doing just that. She makes movement tangible - as a trace, as a shadow, as an imprint in time that only becomes recognizable in retrospect. Her works map processes that have escaped us, capturing what has already evaporated. This is precisely where BURN-IN comes in - at the interface between art, space and consciousness. Because art is never just a surface. It is a code that must first be deciphered.
For me, sustainability is not just a question of materials - it is about processes, about transformation. Kaufmann's works show how movement becomes memory, how touch inscribes itself into materials and continues to have an effect. For BURN-IN, GreenART means thinking ahead: What resources do we use? What values shape us? What traces remain? Hannah Kaufmann and I share an attitude: art changes with its viewers - it challenges, irritates, provokes. And remains.
In the exhibition DANCE OF THE STILL THINGS, this dialog between transience and presence becomes visible. The staging itself is a search for traces: drawings not only map paths, but also the memories that are inscribed in them. Photographs capture movement that actually wants to move on. Sculptures occupy the space, they invite us to approach them - sometimes just with our eyes, sometimes with a touch. They are works that make us not only look at them, but also read them. Because art is not a standstill. It is a process that wants to be continued.
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