Sonja Heim
Sonja Heim (*1997) deals intensively with ‚human-animal-object-relationships‘ in her work. The expansive installations form small-scale worlds, formed from elements of craftsmanship or mass industry, such as glass beads or chicken blinders. In doing so, she transfers behavioral patterns or production processes of Western-influenced high cultures and class identities into the exhibition space. Her most recent work, a woven tapestry of glass beads, is based on a pencil drawing sketched by the artist, which was transformed into a digital image via a text-to-image AI (Dall-E) using descriptive words. This in turn served as a template for the creation of a number and letter grid (BeadTool 4), in order to subsequently translate the data obtained, bead by bead, back into a weaving frame. In an impressive way, Sonja Heim stages human-machine cooperation anchored in the process of creation and the transformation of a working-class culture linked to it. The Sisyphean labor of manual craftsmanship contrasts with files created in seconds, emphasizing the inevitable discrepancy between man and machine. Sonja Heim is currently studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Franka Hörnschemeyer.
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

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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