With her works, the Berlin-based multimedia artist Katja Aufleger (born 1983 in Oldenburg) seeks the simultaneity of possibilities to pose existential questions – sculptural and filmic, visual and auditory. The seductive aesthetic of her works surprises with unexpected, dangerous, or profound twists. Such interconnections are created, for example, when Aufleger brings a glass pendulum construction into the exhibition space, which stimulates viewers to contemplate setting it in motion. In addition to the obvious fragility of the glass flasks, the components of nitro-glycerine are also found in the thus literally explosive museum installation. With such ambivalence, the artist exercises institutional critique, questioning power structures and systems. In Aufleger’s world, it is only at second glance that one becomes aware of both the fleetingness of a moment and its complexity.

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