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Good bye Karin Sachs!
Good bye Karin Sachs!
We say goodbye to Ms. Sachs, our long-time member. We have recently been very pleased to observe how the daily newspapers (Abendzeitung of December 19, 2024, Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 4, 2025) have accompanied Ms. Sachs’ exit from gallery life. Just as we do, the articles value her “otherness, her gallery life beyond the norm. She always remained curious and open to new means in art. She herself says:
“If you should write a few sentences about the gallery when I stop working in the gallery (this is not an invitation, really!!), I would like to say what I was and still am particularly interested in. I have long thought that the computer is or will be a new tool in art for many artists. I don’t mean something like NFTs. That affects the art market, but has nothing to do with art.”
It’s a shame that she isn’t continuing: “If I were young, I would focus more on these artists. There are very interesting young artists, e.g. Stijn Jonckheere, as well as Michaela Konrad, who work with augmented reality.”
Karin Sachs has been dealing with the medium of computers in art since 1993: “In 1993, I held an exhibition in Lothringer Strasse for the cultural department. At that time, some artists were beginning to discover the computer as a new tool. That fascinated me even then. The artists who were there at the time included: THOMAS BAYERLE, GENERAL IDEA, PETER KOGLER, HELMUT MARK, STEVE MILLER, JOSEPH NECHVATL, ROSEMARIE TROCKEL. In the future, art will continue to use this tool, along with many others. Actually, I would still be interested to see what comes of it.”
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For me, the gallery was the fulfillment of a dream and for that I thank my artists, collectors and friends. I hope the collectors can enjoy the works they have acquired for a long time. I wish the artists continued success and joy with their work.
For the future, I wish you much success in everything you do.
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The last event in her gallery in November 2024 was called “Archived ruptures Ruptured archives. Collaboration intervention resistance” and was a collaboration, intervention, resistance, a workshop together with the Käte Hamburger Research Center global dis:connect. Karin Sachs said:
“It is an exciting political, intellectual and aesthetic event. The art is created during the event. The artists present works and results of their research with and in archives and collections, about memories and protest. Through their artistic and/or activist engagement, their collaboration, intervention or resistance, they show how ruptures activate archived objects and personal things, memorials, photographs or textiles and enable new perspectives on silenced or forgotten objects, memories and stories.”
Karin Sachs is the one who notices when you wear different colored shoelaces, she is the one who leaves an event when she gets fed up. Now she’s probably fed up with it, but only a little, because we can still see her curiosity:
“I can also say something bad about contemporary art: I’m getting a little bored of it now, because I don’t see anything anywhere that I haven’t seen before in some form. It could of course be my age. I started out completely ignorant of art and had to learn everything, which was very interesting for me back then and you soak it up like a sponge when something is new to you.”
Her passion for the “thing” of art is clear:
“For me, the gallery was the fulfillment of a dream and for that I thank my artists, collectors and friends. I hope the collectors can enjoy the works they have acquired for a long time. I wish the artists continued success and joy with their work. For your future, I wish you much success in everything you do. Karin Sachs.”
And we thank Ms. Sachs – for her commitment, her innovative spirit and her nonconformity! We will miss you!
Credits:
1: Michaela Konrad, DRONES Remix1, 2023 silk print, 130 x 100 cm, Auflage13 (Header)
2: Portrait Karin Sachs Open Art Catalogue 2013
3: Samuel Rachl, 19.06.2013, 13:15; Format: 100 cm x 140 cm , Technik: Drawing on paper. The exhibition “recently” by Samuel Rachl was the last regular exhibition at the Karin Sachs Gallery
4: Stijn Jonckheere, “We’ll talk on The Phone”, Stijn Jonckheere, Atlanta, 2023, 50 x 70 cm, Digital Print, Auflage 2
5: Joanna Buchowska, “next season, 2022, Paper, Acryl, pencils on canvas, 60 x 90 cm
6: Via Lewandowsky, The Great Split, 2022, silk print painted, 89 x 123 cm, Edition: 10, Credits:VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2023