Karin Sander Karin Sander

Karin Sander

Born 1957 in Bensberg, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
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Exhibition view: Karin Sander, Kunsthalle Tübingen, 2022. Photo © Martin Lauffer

Introduction

Karin Sander works with situations, their social and historical contexts, involving interventions in existing structures and institutions. The medium the work is realized in is painting, sculpture, electronic media, science, architecture; in brief: each medium is available for working out its specific potential.

Full biography

Selected works

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Karin Sander
Gebrauchsbild 163, Draußen im Garten / Patina Painting 163, Out in the Garden, Sommer 2012

Stretched canvas in standard size, white universal primer

60 x 50 cm
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Karin Sander
Glass Piece 86, 2022

Glass

43,5 x 16,5 x 13 cm
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Karin Sander
Glass Drop 25, 2022

Glass

31 x 15 x 7,5 cm
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Karin Sander
Glass Piece 124, 2022
Glass

18 x 12 x 12 cm
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Karin Sander
Brushstroke, Fluorescent Yellow / Pinselstrich, fluoreszierend gelb, 2019

Mobile acrylic paint
Dimensions variable (8 x 16 cm approx.)
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Karin Sander
Karin Sander 1:5, 2018

3D color scan of the living person, data mirrored, polychrome 3D printing (black and white), plaster material

Scale: 1:5; Height: approx. 32 cm each (two parts)
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Karin Sander
Mailed Painting 182, 2017

Bonn - Berlin - Giza - Berlin
Stretched canvas in standard sizes, white universal primer

ø 60 cm
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Karin Sander
Grapes / Trauben, 2012
Grapes, stainless steel nail
Dimensions variable
Nail: ø 0,4 x 5 cm
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Karin Sander
Oyster Mushroom / Austernpilz, 2012

Oyster Mushroom, stainless steel nail
Dimensions variable
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Karin Sander
Banana / Banane, 2012
Banana, stainless steel nail
Dimensions variable
Nail: ø 0,4 x 7 cm
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Karin Sander
Endive lettuce / Endiviensalat, 2012
Endive lettuce, stainless steel nail
Variable
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Karin Sander
Blood Orange / Blutorange, 2012
Blood orange, stainless steel nail
Variable Dimensions
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Karin Sander
Mailed Painting 104, 2009

Sharjah - München - Berlin - Siegen - Berlin - Madrid - München - Berlin - Hong Kong - Berlin - New York - Berlin
Stretched canvas in standard sizes, white universal primer
40 x 50 x 4 cm
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Karin Sander
German National Women’s Soccer Team 1:7,7..., Squad, 2005

3D body scans of the actual players, SLS (selective laser sintering), polyamide, airbrush, applications

Height 23 cm approx., scale 1:7 each, 28 figures
6,5 x 234 x 30 cm (shelf)
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Karin Sander
Ostrich Egg, Polished / Straußenei, poliert, 1994-2004

Ostrich Egg, Polished
15 x 20 x 15 cm (egg), 125 x 30 x 30 cm (plinth), 36 x 30 x 30 cm (Plexiglas cover)
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Karin Sander
Wandstück / Wall piece, 1986/2021

Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Wall paint polished

100 x 100 cm

Gallery Exhibitions

Karin Sander Spring Program

Karin Sander

Spring Program
The three projects presented under the heading The Window at Esther Schipper, Seoul—Ceal Floyer, Isa Melsheimer, and Karin Sander— each in their own way, create worlds for us to visit. But the...
June 7—July 1, 2023
Esther Schipper, Seoul
'What You See is Not What You Get' (22 Exhibitions) Karin Sander

"What You See is Not What You Get" (22 Exhibitions)

Karin Sander
Esther Schipper is pleased to present 'What you see is not what you get' (22 Exhibitions), the fourth solo exhibition of Karin Sander with the gallery.
June 10—July 16, 2022
Esther Schipper, Berlin
En la casa de Marquès Esther Schipper Mallorca

En la casa de Marquès

Esther Schipper Mallorca
Visit us this summer for a special exhibition entitled Inside Marquès House in Palma de Mallorca held at the former residence of Martí Marquès Marquès, a historic house dating back to the...
July 12—31, 2021
Casa Museo Can Marquès, Palma de Mallorca
Esther Schipper Bookstore Karin Sander. Books and Works

Esther Schipper Bookstore

Karin Sander. Books and Works
We are pleased to announce a comprehensive presentation of books, limited editions, and rare publications by Karin Sander on the occasion of her book Karin Sander. A – Z.
January 26—April 6, 2019
Esther Schipper Bookstore
Kunst Karin Sander

Kunst

Karin Sander
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Karin Sander's third solo exhibition with the gallery. In 1996, Karin Sander realized the work Stoffraum Art Basel (Canvas Room Art Basel) for the newly introduced...
September 8—October 21, 2017
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Paper Work Ceal Floyer and Karin Sander

Paper Work

Ceal Floyer and Karin Sander
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce an exhibition of Ceal Floyer and Karin Sander entitled Paper Work that focuses on the artists’ drawing practice. Ceal Floyer will present a new work from...
July 4—August 23, 2014
h = 400 cm Karin Sander

h = 400 cm

Karin Sander
Esther Schipper is pleased to present h = 400 cm, the first solo exhibition of Karin Sander at the gallery. Sander reworks the space with three reciprocal interventions. Encountering the freshly remodeled...
November 2—December 22, 2012

External Exhibitions

50 Für Bad Berlin With Rosa Barba, Thomas Demand, Simon Fujiwara and Karin Sander

50 Für Bad Berlin

With Rosa Barba, Thomas Demand, Simon Fujiwara and Karin Sander
50 Für Bad Berlin With Rosa Barba, Thomas Demand, Simon Fujiwara and Karin Sander Opening September 11, 2024, 6 – 9 PM September 12, 12 – 5 PM September 13 – 15,...
September 11—15, 2024
Fluss Bad Berlin at Bauakademie
Am Seegarten With Karin Sander

Am Seegarten

With Karin Sander
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce our participation at Am Seegarten, a summer exhibition project in the Brandenburg town Kirchmöser.
Saturday & Sunday, July 1-2, noon–6 pm
EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS
Neighbours, Karin Sander, Philip Ursprung, Swiss Pavilion, 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, 2023 ©KS 2023

Neighbours

Karin Sander and Philip Ursprung
Two national pavilions and a wall that connects as well as separates, are the focus of Karin Sander’s and Philip Ursprung’s project Neighbours for the Biennale Architettura 2023. By turning the architecture itself into the exhibit, the artist and the...
Preview: May 18 – 19, 2023
Swiss Pavilion – 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia
THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN With Rosa Barba, Ceal Floyer, Karin Sander and Julia Scher

THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN

With Rosa Barba, Ceal Floyer, Karin Sander and Julia Scher
This is an exhibition of our time: Superman is thwarted and hits a wall, an oversized hybrid female hare offers motherly protection, a pair of seahorses switch traditional gender roles, and passion creates sparks. With a selection of contemporary works...
May 13—October 8, 2023
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
Karin Sander, Tao, 2022, Conservation of traces left by former resident of Heidestraße 54. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Gedanken spielen Verstecken

With Karin Sander
Ephra presents the group exhibition Gedanken spielen Verstecken (Thoughts Play Hide and Seek). Twentey two internationally renowned artists, including Karin Sander, occupy two floors of Haus Kunst Mitte. The special thing about it: All questions are allowed here. Close to...
February 25—June 11, 2023
Haus Kunst Mitte
Die Tore With Rosa Barba and Karin Sander
Berlin Art Week 2022

Die Tore

With Rosa Barba and Karin Sander
At the invitation of n.b.k. and in collaboration with On Equal Terms and the Berlin Art Week, site-specific works by Rosa Barba, Maria Eichhorn, Herta Müller, and Karin Sander will be on display at the Uferhallen entrance gates, under the...
from Sep 14, 2022
Uferhallen, Berlin
Blancs de Blanc With Ann Veronica Janssens, Isa Melsheimer and Karin Sander

Blancs de Blanc

With Ann Veronica Janssens, Isa Melsheimer and Karin Sander
A white book page as a new beginning, a white dove as a symbol of peace, Buddhist monks wearing white for mourning. Purity, innocence, infinity, perfection, silence, emptiness, coolness. Hardly any colour...
March 19—June 5, 2022
Villa Schöningen, Potsdam
NOTHINGTOSEENESS – Void/White/Silence With Rosa Barba, Ceal Floyer, Pierre Huyghe and Karin Sander

NOTHINGTOSEENESS – Void/White/Silence

With Rosa Barba, Ceal Floyer, Pierre Huyghe and Karin Sander
John Cage described the equivalent of silence in the visual arts as “nothingtoseeness” and circumscribes nothingness through seeing and feeling. The NOTHINGTOSEENESS - Void/White/Silence exhibition is dedicated to this experience of seeing...
September 15—December 12, 2021
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin
Karin Sander

Karin Sander

Over the past four decades Karin Sander has developed an artistic position of her very own in the tradition of Post-minimalism. She smashed the rigid attitude of the Concept Art of the...
March 27—July 4, 2021
Kunsthalle Tübingen
Skulptur / Sculpture / Scultura Karin Sander

Skulptur / Sculpture / Scultura

Karin Sander
In her exhibitions Karin Sander humorously refers to existing situations and addresses their institutional and historical context. She intervenes in the structures of the institutions, changes them, highlights facts and invites the...
May 30—September 20, 2020
Museion, Bolzano
43°45’51.8″N 11°15’46.8″E Karin Sander

43°45’51.8″N 11°15’46.8″E

Karin Sander
February 8—March 21, 2020
Base / Progetti per l'arte, Florence
Out of Order | Works from the Haubrok Collection with Martin Boyce, Rodney Graham, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Philippe Parreno and...

Out of Order | Works from the Haubrok Collection

with Martin Boyce, Rodney Graham, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Philippe Parreno and Karin Sander
Barbara and Axel Haubrok began collecting professionally at the end of the 1980s, and their collection now contains over 1000 works. Their focus is on international conceptual art at the turn of...
January 17—March 1, 2020
Neues Museum–Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg
Hidden Beauty with Karin Sander

Hidden Beauty

with Karin Sander
Karin Sander's works arise from reflection on the institutional and spatial conditions of art and often fit so perfectly into their respective contexts that they are sometimes not noticed at first glance....
October 12, 2019—January 19, 2020
Kunsthalle Nürnberg
Frozen Gesture With Karin Sander

Frozen Gesture

With Karin Sander
n 1965 Roy Lichtenstein created his famous brushstrokes and in so doing transformed the subjective gesture of heroic Modernism into a trivial comic drawing, transposed into the large format of a museum....
May 18—August 18, 2019
Kunst Museum Winterthur
Karin Sander. A – Z Karin Sander

Karin Sander. A – Z

Karin Sander
On the occasion of Haus am Waldsee’s reopening, Karin Sander presented a comprehensive solo exhibition, titled Karin Sander. A bis Z. The work of this award-winning artist, who has lived in Berlin...
January 26—March 3, 2019
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Karin Sander

Karin Sander

From September 8, Karin Sander will present an exhibition at the Kunst Museum Winterthur, spanning both venues of the museum (Beim Stadthaus and Reinhart am Stadtgarten), through November 18, 2018. The exhibition...
September 8—November 18, 2018
Kunst Museum Winterthur,
Office Works Karin Sander

Office Works

Karin Sander
Opening Reception April 24, 7–9pm Read more
April 25, 2018
Fahrbereitschaft, Haubrok Foundation, Berlin
Identities on Display Karin Sander

Identities on Display

Karin Sander
March 11—June 18, 2017
Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
I Got to Have One of Those with Karin Sander

I Got to Have One of Those

with Karin Sander
May 19, 2015—March 31, 2017
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
To Know Not To Know with Karin Sander

To Know Not To Know

with Karin Sander
September 6—November 3, 2013
43rd Colombia Biennial, Medellín
Identities on Display Karin Sander

Identities on Display

Karin Sander
For a project at the Humboldt Lab Dahlem to which Holzer Kobler Architects invited Karin Sander in 2013, the artist developed a temporary intervention entitled Identies on Display for the entrance of...
March 14—April 26, 2013
Ethnologisches Museum und Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Humboldt-Lab, Berlin
Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Baden-Württemberg Karin Sander

Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Baden-Württemberg

Karin Sander
March 1, 2012
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Karin Sander Karin Sander

Karin Sander

Karin Sander
March 5—May 1, 2011
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Museumbesucher 1:8 Karin Sander

Museumbesucher 1:8

Karin Sander
July 10, 2010—January 16, 2011
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Featured stories

Lecture and Artist Talk with Karin Sander at ETH Zurich
Audimax, ETH Zurich, Main Building, Rämistrasse 101

Lecture and Artist Talk with Karin Sander at ETH Zurich

Tuesday April 9, 5:15 pm
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Karin Sander in conversation with Arte about her work at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale Arte
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Karin Sander in conversation with Arte about her work at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale

Arte
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Review of Karin Sander's “The Window” at Esther Schipper, Seoul Mousse Magazine
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Review of Karin Sander's “The Window” at Esther Schipper, Seoul

Mousse Magazine
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How to be a good neighbour NZZ Magazin
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How to be a good neighbour

NZZ Magazin
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Spotlight: Karin Sander
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Spotlight: Karin Sander

This week for our Spotlight we present Karin Sander's Patina Painting 187/12, In The Garden During Building Renovation, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 2018.⁠⠀ Patina Paintings (Gebrauchsbilder) are standard, mass-produced canvases in various formats that the...
Karin Sander at Museion, Bolzano
Museion, Bolzano

Karin Sander at Museion, Bolzano

In her exhibitions Karin Sander humorously refers to existing situations and addresses their institutional and historical context. She intervenes in the structures of the institutions, changes them, highlights facts and invites the public to...
May 30 – September 20, 2020
Karin Sander at Base
Base / Progetto per l'arte, Florence

Karin Sander at Base

Base / Progetti per arte presents the solo exhibition from Karin Sander entitled 43°45'51.8'N 11°15'46.8'E, opening on Saturday February 8 2020 from 6.30 pm.
February 8 – March 21, 2020
Concert with Angela Bulloch and Karin Sander
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin

Concert with Angela Bulloch and Karin Sander

Music for Future Images Concert with Angela Bulloch and Karin Sander Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin April 28, 2019, 7 pm Free admission
April 28, 2019, 7 pm
Karin Sander and Harald Welzer: Telling Art and Futures – Die Dialektik des Utopischen
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin

Karin Sander and Harald Welzer: Telling Art and Futures – Die Dialektik des Utopischen

The utopian is at the centre of the exhibition project by concept artist Karin Sander. There is a lot of unfulfilled future in the past, and visions of the future grow on...
April 28 – June 2, 2019
Artist Talk with Karin Sander
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

Artist Talk with Karin Sander

On February 25, 2019, 7:30 pm, Karin Sander will give an artist talk with Prof. Dr. Ursprung, ETH Zurich, at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. Read more here.
February 25, 2019, 7:30 pm
Karin Sander at Haus am Waldsee
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

Karin Sander at Haus am Waldsee

On the occasion of Haus am Waldsee’s re-opening, the institution presents a comprehensive and site-specific solo exhibition by Karin Sander. Sander often works with the spatial and historical conditions of her exhibition...
January 26 – March 3, 2019
Myth, Music & Electricity
Herkulessaal, Residenstraße 1, 80333 Munich

Myth, Music & Electricity

artgenève presents, Myth, Music and Electricity, part of “contemporary art as concert”, a series of events focused on musical and ephemeral works by artists invited by Augustin Maurs. This event will take place...
November 29, 8pm
Karin Sander: Identities on Display
Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach

Karin Sander: Identities on Display

Through June 18, 2017

Publications

Karin Sander Skulptur / Sculpture / Scultura

Karin Sander

Skulptur / Sculpture / Scultura
The new publication by Karin Sander presents itself – like many of her monographs – with its own concept, its own logic, its own order on 224 pages. The sequence of the...
2020
Karin Sander A-Z

Karin Sander

A-Z
This book was published to accompany the exhibition Karin Sander: A-Z at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (26 January 2018 - 3 March, 2019), and contains a selection of works arranged in alphabetical...
2019
Karin Sander n.b.k.

Karin Sander

n.b.k.
Edited by Marius Babias with a preface by Marius Babias, texts by Philip Ursprung and Harald Welzer and an interview between Karin Sander and Clemens Krümmel. The book was published in 2013...
2013
Karin Sander Gebrauchsbilder

Karin Sander

Gebrauchsbilder
Karin Sander began the Patina Paintingseries in the late 1990's. The titles of the works refer to the places where they were 'produced' and the duration of the time over which the...
2011
Karin Sander Randomly Selected Works

Karin Sander

Randomly Selected Works
This large-format brochure was published by multiple institutions and designed by büro uebele. It features 17 works, exhibitions and projects by Karin Sander, selected randomly, yet giving an insightful and broad view...
2014
Karin Sander Museumsbesucher 1:8

Karin Sander

Museumsbesucher 1:8
''In this opulent volume, Karin Sander presents her extraordinary 3D bodyscan project, with which she suspends the boundary between the functions of the museum and the artist's atelier, transforming the museum into...
2013