Corinna Krebber [Germany] time to read / RECHERCHE
installation
Corridor of the Crossroads Centre, Peowiaków 12 St. (ground floor)
“Love and art do not encompass what is beautiful, but rather what becomes beautiful because of them”.
Karl Kraus, 1874-1936
“À la recherche du temps perdu” (In Search of Lost Time), a novel by French writer Marcel Proust written between 1908 and the year of his death in 1922, is a book that helped Jozef Czapski survive his imprisonment in a Russian prisoner of war camp during World War II, when he recalled passages from the book and lectured about it. To this end, Czapski (1893-1993), a Polish writer and painter, created a series of notes, combining fragments of text, impressions and drawings. These notes were the main inspiration for my side wall painting for the Shapes of Beauty exhibition of the Open City Festival in Lublin. Moreover, the corridor with its beautiful cradle vault seemed to me a good place to work with the idea of MEMORY….
All fragments of the text, single words and whole sentences, were taken from Proust’s original text (published by Gallimard), the German translation (Suhrkamp) and the Polish version (published by Oficina) and, last but not least, from Jozef Czapski’s notes. The intention of this wall painting is to create a space that will evoke memories and associations in anyone who enters this corridor….
Corinna Krebber
1963 Oberhausen/Rhld; Germany
Architecture studies, FH Würzburg
Art studies, Alanus University, Alfter/Bonn
Since 2006 she has been working as a freelance artist in Frankfurt am Main. She teaches and gives courses in museum, school and adult education.
Solo exhibitions:
o.T./Ariadnefaden, Castle Church Bad Homburg (Hesse, Germany); 2020
about the disappearance of certainties; Kunstverein artenoah, Würzburg; 2018
art / pause; Kunstturmmücke Gallery, Mücke; 2017
empty vacuum; Kunstraum Bernusstrasse gallery, Frankfurt am Main; 2017
raumschnitte; Gallery Das Bilderhaus, Frankfurt am Main; 2015
schnittlinien (together with A. Voss) Museum of Art, Mülheim an der Ruhr; 2014/15
[Status: on hold]; All Saints’ Church, Frankfurt am Main; 2013
Questions to flowing praise; KunstinKirchen, Kloster Engelthal, Altenstadt; 2011
detached from everything (with D. Handon); Kunstverein Bellevuesaal, Wiesbaden; 2011
networks/vermessung der welt; Hess. Ministry of Science and Art, Wiesbaden, 2010
incidental; Hamman19 exhibition space, Frankfurt am Main, 2010
unspeakable; Limburg art collection, 2009
word-rooms; Museum Klingspor, Offenbach am Main, 2009
Group exhibitions (selection)
Paper cut, Museum Klingspor, Offenbach am Main, 2022
Virtous! Gustav-Lübcke Museum Hamm; 2022-23
Choreography of Signs, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig; 2019
EXKO II, exhibition hall Schulstrasse, Frankfurt am Main; 2015
Existential correspondences, MACS museu de arte cont., Sorocaba, Brazil, 2016 (cat.)
Nakanojo Biennale, Japan, 2015 (cat.)
schriftstücke, Museum Klingspor, Offenbach am Main, 2015
#naukaczytania/learning to read, Galeria Stary Browar, Poznań/Poland; 2015
time in, Galerie Druck und Buch, Vienna; 2015
oreart; Kunstturm Mücke; 2014
writing, Galerie Handwerk, Munich; 2014
paperpassion, Michael Blaszczyk Gallery, Bad Homburg; 2013/14 (cat.)
international exhibition of artist’s books, St. Stephen’s Museum; Shkesfeharvar, Hungary, 2013
artist books, Museum Stift Admont, Austria; 2013 (cat.)
the unknown, Mediations Biennale, Poznan; Poland; 2012 (cat.)
Buchkunst total, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2012
Triennale “materials revisited”, MAK, Frankfurt, 2012 (cat.)
Plastic Perspectives, Symposium Bad Salzhausen, 2011 (cat.)
KunstmeetsWissenschaftmeetsKunst, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Darmstadt; 2010 (cat.)
Awards
Art prize of the city of Limburg 2009
Art Prize of the Art Association of Mülheim an der Ruhr 2013
Works in public space
o.T./between narrow and wide, Büsing Palais, Offenbach am Main
denkfigur/locations 2, spa gardens in Bad Salzhausen
Works in public collections
Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt am Main
Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main
City of Offenbach am Main
New York Public Library, USA
Hölderlin Archive, Stuttgart
Ducal August Library, Wolfenbüttel
Public University Library, Basel
Teaching activities/scholarships
Homburg/Main Summer Academy, Alanus University, Alfter
Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main
Robert Koch School, Offenbach am Main and others
2019 Atelierhaus Vitos-Klinik scholarship; Kiedrich
2020 scholarship Atelierhaus Vitos-Klinik; Kiedrich
Contact
c.krebber@posteo.de
www.corinnakrebber.com
