Artists in Galerie Baer
1968 born in Hamburg 1989-1992 education of photography in cologne 1994 star own business in photography
2002 stipendium in Columbus, Ohio (USA)
Exhibitions (selection): 2005 »Saxony UK« Goetheinstitut London (GB), 2004 »Ausschnitt« Galerie rekord Berlin, »Sputniza – wir können auch anders« Kunsthaus Dresden, »orte/unorte« galerie baer I raum für aktuelle kunst, Dresden, 2003 »profiler« raum für aktuelle kunst, Dresden; »Menschen und ihre Orte«, Stadtraum Dresden 2002 »Wunschbilder«, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig 2001 »mine«, Folldal (Norwegen) 2000 »rollon«, Galerie Signal, Malmö (Schweden) 1999 »people & places«, Fotografieprojekt in Schweden und Norwegen 1998 »street level«, Dresden 1997 »cheese«, Rathaus Hamburg
Photographer Inga Paas explores in her photographs the relations and functions of human beings and the places surrounding them. While doing so, her approach is project-oriented, documentary, matter-of-fact and serial, owning formally, to some extent, to the Becher-school. No individually, artificially generated lighting falsifies her interpretation of her motifs and concepts. The monumentality and anonymity of the places and architectures is broken down with their opposite narrative element, the image of the individuals.
For the project "people & places", developed in Scandinavia in 1999, the artist photographed the protagonists at the very site where she first happened to meet them. In each case, these places refer to the occupations of the depicted. With her 2002/03 urban space project "Menschen und ihre Orte" (i.e. “People and Their Places"), Inga Paas took matters one step further, showing people in Dresden in their favourite or most-loathed locations respectively. By erecting these photographs (at the actual locations) without explanatory comments, the usually rather cursory perception of environments was transformed into their being consciously examined. In a first instance, the spectator has to establish a relationship of his or her own to the specific site, has to make sense of it in all its significant features and allow it to sink in, before being able to find a narrative to go with the portrayed person. Thus, Paas invests anonymous cityscapes with human experiences.