CHRISCHA OSWALD
Christian Haake
Bremen
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Bremen
Published 15/10/2015 | Updated 11/01/2024
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination ...
And don`t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean Luc Godard
said: It`s not where you take things from - it`s where you take them to.
JIM JARMUSCH
Christian Haake constructs memory. Transforming his memories and mental images into precisely...
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination ...
And don`t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean Luc Godard
said: It`s not where you take things from - it`s where you take them to.
JIM JARMUSCH
Christian Haake constructs memory. Transforming his memories and mental images into precisely detailed objects and installations, Haake‘s productions tap into our collective memory, shaping a new image of reality in the process. His concern lies not with the verisimilitude of his works, but with their divergence and the fracture which separates reality, perception and mental image. The rich poetic potential of his works is directed not towards the affirmation of memory, but towards its subtle destabilization. Haake‘s work foregrounds the power of memory to generate reality, suggesting that memory, in all its inexactitude, might communicate a ‘more truthful’ image of reality than reality itself is capable of producing.
Working without recourse to such aids as photographs or detailed sketches, Haake‘s art-making is open to and indeed flirts with the effects of divergence and slippage,
resulting in images which are new yet intrinsically coherent. While these constructions are grounded in memory, Christian Haake‘s works are simultaneously distanced from
reality by their minute size and are quite obviously not intended as direct representations.
JANNEKE DE VRIES
›Kabinett, grafisch‹ 2015 / Installationsansicht / Wand im grafischen Kabinett / Kunstverein Bremerhaven
If you could install your art absolutely anywhere, where would that be?
in your mind
If you weren´t an artist, what would you be doing?
farmer
What are your favourite places besides your studio?
cinemas
2024
instrumentals/ drawing room Hamburg
2021
REVOLVE / neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal
2019
on displays / drawing room Hamburg
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2023
something new, something old, something desired, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2021
LOOK ! / Marta Herford
2020
CKD completely knocked down, MAMAM, Recife / Brasilien
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Fekene collection, Tønsberg
Hollweg Stiftung
Sammlung Alexander Sairally und Esther Schulte
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Galerie K Strich | http://www.k-strich.de/de/kunstler/christian-haake/
Drawingroom Hamburg | http://www.drawingroom-hamburg.com/#
2011 Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Arbeitsstipendium
2010 Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Preis
2009 Karin Hollweg Preis
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University of Bremen
