Christian Kaufmann - meet me in the gallery

Kaufmann's artistic practice includes graphic design, multimedia works and objects. His creations always act as artificial prostheses, analyzing man-made applications and reintroducing them in a modified context: everyday objects, concepts or technologies are aesthetically reinterpreted and placed in an artificial environment.
His works are distinguished by their enigmatic character, in which many elements are decoded and recoded through sophisticated technical tools, generating a rift between rationality and emotion, between rigidity and movement, and between the artificial and natural worlds.
Kaufmann's universe moves in mystery: he is not interested in the visible surface, but in what lies beneath it, exploring encrypted codes to add new levels of meaning. In his art practice it is never explicit, but always measured and calculated. The viewer discovers only what the artist has consciously arranged as an interpretive bridge.
In the interactive exhibition “meet me in the gallery,” Kaufmann focuses on installations inspired by surveillance technology, interrogating its mechanisms and their impact. The exhibition space is transformed into an environment protected from eavesdropping: panels emit white noise in the ultrasonic range, disrupting small microphones, particularly those on smartphones. Contact transducers generate vibrations that make conversations unintelligible to laser scanners. These sophisticated and disguised technological practices, along with the dialectic between power and powerlessness they evoke, form the core of Christian Kaufmann's artistic research.
“meet me in the gallery” is an invitation from the artist to meet him on a conceptual and sensory level-without a physical presence, but only through his creations-to explore the boundaries of perception and technology, between control and loss of control, within a clear and essential aesthetic.

Christian Kaufmann, born 1986 in Bolzano, Italy. 2007/2008 - 2008 studies at the University of Salzburg in Philosophy and Psychology. 2008/2009 - 2014/2015 studies in Sculpture and Multimedia at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2010 independent artist, lives and works in Magrè (Italy).

La mostra è curata da Lisa Trockner
Inaugurazione: 13 febbraio, ore 19, presso SKB ARTES nel Südtiroler Künstlerbund