“Work No. 1051”, 2010 by Martin Creed. Marble.
»Zuhandenheit«, 2008 by Zak Kitnick.
“Terazzo (29B, 42 and 14C)”, 2010 by Fredrik Værslev. Spray-paint, granite effect spray on canvas.
“Series of successive instants”, 2009 by Sonia Leimer. Wooden construction, DVD, foley pits filled with concrete, brick, laminat (parquet oak), ballast, ceramics (marble), boulder, aluminium.
“The Sun”, 2003-2007 by Matts Leiderstam. Tables, books, magnifying glass, video projection, paintings and an X-ray image on a light box.
“Fabiola“, is an ongoing work by Francis Alÿs. Over the last two decades, Francis Alÿs has assembled a collection of nearly identical paintings and other reproductions of fourth-century Saint Fabiola, all based on a now-lost original painted in the nineteenth century by the French artist Jean-Jacques Henner.
»Nogales« pairs a single 35mm slide-image of the walled town of Nogales, divided along the US/Mexican border, with an audio recording of Ronald Reagan’s famous speech at the Berlin Wall, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”, 2008 by Maryam Jafri.
For her project »Postcards«, 2007, Katerina Drzkova systematically collected postcards from the 1960s to the 1980s. They are never identical. The pair »Tropical Beach« differs in several details and a time shift of a few minutes is apparent. Different photographers are named at the back, a different place and time of posting, the addressee is the same.
»Refugees«, 2007. Documentary photographs of refugees digitally manipulated and colored. The refugees appear in new spaces constructed according to their wishes. By Katerina Drzkova.
»One Million Finnish Passports« (1995). This collection of replicas addresses the restrictive nationalism of Finland. Compared to other European nations, Finland has the lowest number of immigrants and refugees. Project realized by Alfredo Jaar.
»Art Imitates Life«, 2007. Google search frequency for “art” and “life” from 2004 to 2006 are plotted against each other on a search-volume graph where the number of searches for each term is shown in relation to the number of searches done on Google during a given time period. The two graphs synchronize a surprising amount and are generally very close in volume. At least on the web, art and life imitate each other. By Caleb Larsen.