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>>> studio visit: please register at jkoenig@hgb-leipzig.de (details will follow separately by e-mail)

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Jennifer König's practice is characterized by an experimental and processual approach.
The artist searches for ways to elaborate forms and figures through the application of paint – whose characteristics oscillate between phenomenon and concept, either by showing traces of the working process or by materializing the thought process that can lead to a work. The current works are indicated by an ordering principle, that brings together the respective image abbreviations in both analytical and experimental way. The essential potentials of the medium are explored in the examination of gesture, color, line, surface area and space. An orthogonal grid functions thereby as a superordinate carrier structure for the single painting as well as for the entire series. König works according to a procedure that allows the working process to become part of the image. For this purpose, the initial gestures and marks are covered before subsequent layers of paint are made. In this way, the chronology of making, the genesis of the image as a temporal sequence, is transformed into a visuospatial experience. The masking of the gestures represents a distancing that supplements the spontaneity that predominates in the application of paint with a rational and reflective level.

https://jennifer-koenig.com/

You can find an overview of this semester's “Positions” here