Artists in Galerie Baer
1974 born in Grimma 1993-1999 study of teaching profession and geography on the Technischen Universität Dresden 1996-1997 study of history of art and geography on the Université de Caen (France) 1997-2002 study of painting and graphic on the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden 2002-2003 study of free arts on the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm (Sweden) 2003 further studies at prof. Martin Honert on the HfBK
2000 price by the friends of the HfBK Dresden; Atelierstipendium Ricklungsgarden (Sweden) 2001 stipendium of Wilhelm Smith Fond (Sweden) 2003 Marion Ermer Preis; Reisestipendium aus dem Axelsson Jonsson Fond (Sweden)
Exhibitions (selection): 2005 »Arbeit« Kunsthaus Dresden, 2004»Ausschnitt« Galerie rekord Berlin, »terra nova« Raum 3 Wismar, »Sputniza – wir können auch anders« Kunsthaus Dresden, »Begegnungen in Regensburg« Regensburg, »terra (in)cognita« galerie baer I raum für aktuelle kunst, Dresden 2003»profiler« galerie baer I raum für aktuelle kunst, Dresden; »Marion-Ermer-Preisträger« Oktogon, Dresden; »Topografiska övingar«, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm (Schweden) 2002 »BiFokal«, Technische Sammlungen Dresden und Kunsthaus Hamburg 2001 »Insgesamtgrün«, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 2000 »Frühlingssalon«, HfBK Dresden
The topics geography and mapping are the recurrent themes throughout the oeuvre of Juliane Köhler. In this, the artist does not focus on an objective depiction of space, but on the visualisation of individual realities by means of a geographic code system. The artist uses cartography as both metaphor and symbolic means of orientation, surveying, and determining of one's own standpoint, for the construction of identity and biography. Individually experienced distances and scale of her home town are topographically incorporated by Köhler into a walk-in map, in the same manner as a thousand visited places become part of an installation. »Blinde Flecken« (i.e. blind spots) constructs unexplored areas of human desires into her biography. In her work »Gletscher und Autobahn« (i.e. glacier and motorway) at the 2003 "Profiler" exhibition, Köhler examines a causality between nature and culture which leads to cartographic changes. The process of metamorphosis, of the transformation of boundaries and maps is the artist's topic at "terra (in)cognita". The frontiers of Europe shift in »Transforming Europe«. The work »NeuesEuropa!« (i.e. new Europe) invites the spectator to redesign political Europe. The white map »Terra cognita« appears on closer examination as a relief-like, subjectively detailed world map. Finally the gallery itself becomes a world map: from an ocean on the floor run black lines on whose ends macro pictures of skin and hair, which take the shape of actual and invented islands, form the continents and slabs of this world map.