Monika Supe: Lines, Space, and Time

 

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Image Descriptions

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does the future influence the past?, installation, sand, variable,
solo show “zeitlang” Gallery Bachlechner Graz 2023

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is time linear?, installation, sand, variable
show “Teilhabe” with Sinan von Stietencron, Galerie Bezirk Oberbayern Munich 2020

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365, ink on paper (21x10950 cm),
group show “separate waschen” Städtische Galerie Rosenheim 2023 

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detail of 3

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spissatio 3, wire crocheted, MDF (45x45x20cm) 2017

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drawn into space 1, wire (20x20x5 cm), 2012

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drawn into space 1, wire (20x20x30 cm), 2012

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drawn into space 2, wire (20x20x30 cm), 2012

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drawn into space 3, wire (20x20x5 cm), 2012

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STATEMENT

I am an artist with an architectural background so my main topic is the space and our doing in space. I always feel the need of drawing in architectural practice, that's why my means of expression is drawing and I am used to thinking “in lines”. Therefore, I am looking for new ways of using everything that’s linear.

Because I am interested in our relationship to space and necessarily to time, I want to know how we perceive these and react in these. Questions concern me like: what’s the difference between space and body, inside and outside, past, present and future. And how are they connected?

Against this background I make drawings in two and three dimensions. Often I use wire as “long lines”, sometimes I crochet it and form objects. But also I draw structures on paper or with sand on the floor which look like knitted. I like working with linear structures that because I can visualize the working process: with their eyes observers can follow the way of lines or wires and can trace back the progress of time. So I can visualize and store something which is normally invisible – time.

VITA

1967 born in Munich. 1995 Diplom-Ingenieur Architektur, Technical University of Munich. 1998 Architect, Bavarian professional Association of Architects. 1998-2000 Assistant Lecturer in construction and design, Technical University of Kaiserslautern. Since 2004 lectures at universities, state and private institutions. 2006 Doctorate with Honours, Technical University of Kaiserslautern. 1995-2010 Lecturer in architectural graphics, drawing, methods of design, theory in perception, theory in aesthetics and design, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan Freising and Academy of Fashion and Design AMD Munich. 2010-2011 Professor for interior design, Academy of Fashion and Design AMD Munich. Since 2011 freelance artist. Since 2015 member of the BBK professional Association of visual Artists. Since 2020 member of the Werkbund Bayern. 2020 Professor for Architecture and Design International University of Applied Sciences IUBH. Since 2021 member of Haus der Kunst Künstlerverbund.
Award winning artist, shows in Germany and abroad, including Goethe Institut Paris, Rijswijk Museum The Hague, Arsennale Venice, Gallery Thomas Modern Munich, Gallery Metropolitan Theatre Tokyo, Art Austria Vienna or Gallery Bachlechner Graz.
more information: www.monikasupe.de