In "Dear Käthe" Claudia Balsters and Hannah Goldstein deal with the biographies and works of prominent artists whom they find inspiring. In a sense of an active appropriation, they produce independent photographic artworks and thus transfer the ideas of others into their own presence.
The careful design of the setting for the photographs - place, object, person and gesture; the construction of installations - are part of the artistic process. Balsters' and Goldstein's associations with artistic models give rise to new works that open up a resonating space and can be understood as the beginning of a conversation.
Dear Hannah (Höch) I, 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Hannah (Höch)II, 40x60, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Käthe (Kollwitz), 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Lotte (Laserstein) I , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Lotte (Laserstein) II , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Installation shot "Dear Lotte (Laserstein)"
Dear Louise (Bourgeois) I, 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Louise (Bourgeois) II, 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Louise (Bourgeois) III, 15x22,5cm, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Ruth (Asawa) I , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Ruth (Asawa) II , 40x60, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Ruth (Asawa) III , 40x60, c-prints and paper collage
Dear Paula (Modersohn ) , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Claude (Cahun) II , 40x60, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Claude (Cahun) I, 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Ana (Mendieta) II , wallpaper, 160x240cm
Dear Ana (Mendieta) I , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Ana (Mendieta) III , 40x60, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Hannah (Wilke) II , 40x50, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Hannah (Wilke) III , 40x50, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Installation detail "Dear Ana (Mendieta)"
Dear Hannah (Wilke) IV , 40x50, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Hannah (Wilke) V , 40x50, Pigmentprint on Archival paper
Dear Hannah (Wilke) I , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper