Mailed Paintings

2004-

Mailed Paintings - Without prior manipulation the primed canvases are mailed unwrapped to various exhibitions. Along the way their unprotected surfaces are covered by marks that visually transcribe the distance they traveled. The Mailed Paintings absorb the partina of their postal route. The monochromatic white surfaces act as self-writing diaries that record the journey of the work. The collected patina exaggerates and mirrors the effect of the passage of time on the surface of the painting and emphasis on the environment of the exhibition and the circumstances surrounding it. Thereby the artwork is constantly in the mode of being exhibited.

Text: Press release: "Karin Sander, Gast: On Kawara", Sassa Trülzsch, 2011, Berlin

Presented in exhibitions

Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, 2013
Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, 2022
Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, 2017
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2021
Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, 2024
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 2011
Kunsthaus Dresden, 2012
Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, 2014
Goethe Institut, Mexico City, 2017
Safn, Berlin, 2016
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2013
Kunstverein Arnsberg, 2012
Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2018
SABER DESCONOCER, Medellín, 2013
Museion, Bolzano, 2020
Gallery Friedrich Petzel, New York, 2010
Esther Schipper, Seoul, 2023
Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, 2022
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2012