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Silke Eva Kä stner (lives and works in Berlin and Uckermark) developed her creative approach while traveling in India, New York, and Japan. She creates temporary on-site paintings as well as conceptual pieces in which the viewer comes upon prepared materials and becomes part of-- or even alters-- the picture. Kä stner documents these encounters in photographs or filmic traces out of which she compiles films in the editing suite. Probing the potentials of painting as communication, she foregrounds the active intervention and process. In the gallery no less than the urban scene, Kä stner places painting in relation to architecture in order to frame it in varying perspectives. The monograph offers insight into the foci of Kä stner's art; the works are grouped in chapters rather than arranged in chronological sequence. This structure makes the book a space of experience that gives the reader a vivid sense of her ephemeral creations.

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Amrita Dhillon is an Indian artist living in Berlin. Born in New Delhi, India, she received her undergraduate degree in history from Bard College, New York, and is currently a student of fine arts at the University of the Arts, Berlin in the class of Professor Thilo Heinzmann. Barry Schwabsky (b. Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957) is an American art critic, art historian and poet. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, New York University, Yale University, and Goldsmiths College, among others. Dorothé e Bauerle-Willert (1951-2022) was involved in cultural policy matters in the German Cultural Council and its expert committees and made major contributions to the discussions in the German Art Council and the Board of Trustees of the Kunstfonds Foundation. Bauerle-Willert wrote her doctorate on Aby Warburg's picture atlas Mnemosyne, was a visiting professor in various countries, also director of the Society for Contemporary Art in Bremen and deputy director of the Ulm Museum.

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