CATHARINA SZONN stages a kiddie-ride helicopter as an archetypical imagination machine. Like a dream of ascent that has fallen out of time, she breathes new life into the disused service machine and transforms it into a radical artistic financing model: #cashonly #50cent #rideordie #flywithme #childhooddreams #flippingcoins #takeyourchance

CATHARINA SZONN (*1987) lives and works as an installation artist in Frankfurt am Main. She studied at the Academy of Design Offenbach, the Iceland Academy of Arts Reykjavik and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In her painterly and poetic installations, she focuses on current sociocultural topics such as the vacant relationship between humans and machines. Her works have been shown in Germany and internationally, including exhibitions at Kunstverein Konstanz, Frankfurter Kunstverein, European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück and Museum Goch, among others.

The work Castle in the Air takes the template as its absolute starting point. An inflatable designed by the artist is merged with the production company’s standard template and subsequently produced, delivered and displayed. A hybrid art product is the result. This product cyclically fills with the air of the exhibition space, expanding in its full might to reach its spectacular maximal size and then immediately collapsing into itself again, gently and silently.

DANIEL NEUBACHER (*1985) lives and works in Bremen. He studied at the University of the Arts Bremen with Prof. Jean-Francois Guiton, where he completed his Master’s in 2016. At the interface of digital and physical space, Neubacher‘s artistic work is dedicated to current problems and problems with the conditions of artistic creation in terms of production, representation and reception. Neubacher‘s works have been shown in exhibitions in Berlin, Cologne, Schaffhausen, Helsinki, Bucharest, Detroit and Toronto, among others, as well as in several online exhibitions. Castle in the Air was recently presented in Neubacher’s solo exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bremen.