Ilka Kramer
Ilka Kramer
About Ilka Kramer
Ilka Kramer is a photographer whose work challenges the perception of space and reality, through her figurative and architecturally inspired images. Continually investigating the flattening of three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional surface, the artist’s MalaNazar series engages this exploration while drawing on our dissolution with nature through staged, perceived images. Ilka is originally from Berlin and currently lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Ilka currently lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.
STATEMENT
“Normally we don't pay much attention to the zone around us, we react to objects or persons, but we are not aware about the open space in between them and ourselves. And yet, without this sort of 'emptiness' there wouldn't be any movement, or transformation, no distance, no view, no possibility of connection. Space is a condition of live.
In my work I'm interested in this space as a possibility to relay to something we are all part of. The consciousness of our body as a space by itself in connection with the space around it, and therefore in communication with everything else, can create a strong spiritual experience.”- Ilka Kramer
EXHIBITIONS
2016
'Family Business', 'Les Quinzaine Israélienne', La Maison Blanche, Marseille
'Family Business', 'Exchange Rates', Brooklyn, NYC
Sélectionnée pour le prix 'voies off 2016' à Arles
'MalaNazar', International Photographic Art Festival, Zhengzhou, China
'FDLB' à l'espace d'art contemporain Christine Rieffel, Avignon
'Poutres Apparentes', the Carrosserie, Marseille
'Métamorphoses', le grand garage, Paris
'MalaNazar', boutique Robert Clergerie, Marseille
2015
'MalaNazar02', Le magasin de jouets, Arles
'Family Business', Look&Listen, Marseille
'MalaNazar01', 'le parcours de l'Art', Avignon
'le boudoir2.0', Arles
'FDLB' à l'espace d'art contemporain Christine Rieffel, Avignon
'family/family', à la galerie du chateau d'eau, Toulouse
2014
Nature(s), La(b) galerie Artyfact, Paris
'FDLB' à l'espace d'art contemporain Christine Rieffel, Avignon
2013
- Enfance(s), La(b) galerie Artyfact, Paris
'LaFabricA', Festival d'Avignon/maison Jean Vilar, Avignon
'FDLB' à l'espace d'art contemporain Christine Rieffel, Avignon
'ready-made images', galerie ready-made, Paris
'Ich geh jetzt in...' Napa Gallery, Prague, République Tchèque
'made in Arles' à la galerie 'le magasin de jouets', Arles
'ISSP Final Exhibition' Kuldiga, Lettonie
2012
Sélectionnée pour le prix 'voies off 2012' à Arles
'FDLB' à l'espace d'art contemporain Christine Rieffel, Avignon
