Catharina Szonn
In her artistic work, Catharina Szonn (*1987) deals with technological and social realities of our present, in which she draws on cultural phenomena that have already passed and depicts machines as left-behind colloborateurs of an incessant idea of economic expansion. The boundaries to philosophical themes, textual and linguistic forms are fluid in her mode of expression. Thus the artist draws on the ride that has become known as the „Kiddy Ride“ as an archetype of the imagination and service machine: she transforms the helicopter, which looks as if it has fallen out of time, which as a kind of artifact may also awaken childhood memories and symbolically carries the dream of ascending (into the air), into an artistic financing model. Included in this is the addictive nature of a society that loves the „spectacle“ (La société du Spectacle, Debord). Catharina Szonn studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, at the Iceland Academy of Arts Reykjavik and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She lives and works in Berlin.
Exhibitions

WOHNUNG
LAUXTERMANN
Vol. 7
Joschua Yesni Arnaut, Roberto Barbosa, Joseph Beuys, Willi Bucher, Felix Anatol Findeiß, Jacqueline Hen, Sonja Heim, Steffen Jopp, Nadine Karl, Max Klinger, Helga Kneidl, Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler, Ulrike Markus, Toni Meyer, Julie Mia, Philipp Naujoks, Miriam Schenkirz, Robert Schittko, Wayne Thiebaud, Catharina Szonn, Ellen Wagner, Lara Werth, Sonja Yakovleva
with further objects and contributions by Alex Leo Freier, Monster Mansion, Aleksandra Mir & Tim Griffin

space invaders
space invaders
space invaders
space invaders
space invaders
space invaders
space invaders
space invaders
space invaders
space invaders
News

„Subverting norms constructing narrative scenarios“

Wohnung Lauxtermann
The fluid exhibition is open for visitors for the fifth and last time this year until December 15th.

Space Invaders – extendet until 30th September!
with works by Sonja Heim, Jacqueline Hen and Catharina Szonn