Karin Sander

Karin Sander works with social and historical contexts of situations involving interventions in structures and institutions. She works with painting, sculpture, electronic media, science, and architecture; in brief: Sander decodes the specific potential of any medium. The intersection of work, recipient, and institution, of what is found and what is added, of presence and absence, is emphasized and exhibited. Her Mailed Paintings (begun in 2004), for example, standard-sized and primed canvases of various shapes, are sent to exhibitions without any protection; while being on display constantly, they collect and display traces and marks of their journey. Sander is known for her highly polished Wall Pieces (since 1986) and her 3D body scans of the living person (ongoing since 1997).

Karin Sander, Piz Linard, Google-Earth-Data, 2023
Polychrome 3-D print of Google Earth data, plaster material, color pigment ink
18 x 20 x 20 cm
Production ETH Zurich, Nicolas Rolle, Professorship Karin Sander
© 2023 Karin Sander, Photo: Nicolas Rolle