Artist: Joséphine Kaeppelin
Dates of residency: Feb – July
Born: 1985
Hometown: Lyon, France
Lives and Works: Strasbourg, France
Education: DNSEP fine art (master), HEAR (Haute école des arts du Rhin), Strasbourg, France, 2011. DNAT Textile Design, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts de Lyon, France, 2008
URL: http://www.josephinekaeppelin.com
BIO/STATEMENT:
In her artworks, Joséphine Kaeppelin’s takes as point of departure the use of machines and the interaction between human presence and a production system dominated by technology. Machines and their use operate as means of production, co-authors and food for thought. By adopting pre-defined formats, standards and default settings, Kaeppelin’s experiments are likely to lead to re-appropriation by usage. Indeed, by using software or machines in an opposite way or diverting a program from their original purpose can be understood as an act of resistance, a way to create a space for free thought within a defined system.
Kaeppelin will bypass a program in order to reveal the structure that lies behind the system. She seeks to sharpen attention in relation to an action, strengthen the will of a human user interacting with a system as well as enable a kind of self-realization within the context of work and production. She often works in collaboration incorporating for example a stone carver, textile company or conductor in the realization of the work . More recently, she is focused on the question of how to rethink human activities, time, work and society within a context of imminent transition of employment to generalised automation.
Joséphine Kaeppelin has exhibited among others in France (solo show at Espace International du CEAAC, Strasbourg (2014); Petit Lieu de L’art Contemporain (Toulon) CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, Biennial of Mulhouse 012 and Le Magasin CNAC in Grenoble (2012), MBDTCurators in Nantes); inn Germany (Gedok e.V., Stuttgart and Greusslich Contemporary Berlin, 2014); in Turkey (Akbank Art Center, Istanbul, 2014) and Belgium (POPPOSITIONS Off-Fair and the artist run-space Greylight Projects in Brussels, 2014). Joséphine Kaeppelin’s work is currently featured in the group show “Conversations sur l’invisible,” at Galerie Martine Aboucaya (www.martineaboucaya.com) in Paris (on view until March 31 2015)
GALLERY: Greusslich Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
SUPPORT: Josephine Kaeppelin’s 6 months residency is made possible with the kind support of Zaeslin-Bustany-Scholarship in collaboration with Atelier Mondial and Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland
