Goethe-Institut Manila presents "This is not by me" by Cornelia Sollfrank (November 25-30)

Cornelia Sollfrank - "This is not by me"
Curated by Tilman Baumgärtel
Exhibition

25-30 November 2006

Mag:net Gallery Katipunan, Agcor Building, 335 Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon CityAdmission is free

Tel.:+ 63 2 8170978 goethepr@pldtdsl.net

The Goethe-Institut Manila proudly presents "This is not by me", an exhibition of recent works by German artist Cornelia Sollfrank.
Sollfrank is a media, performance and installation artist, who lives in Hamburg and Celle. She was trained at the Kunstakademie München and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, and was a member of the artist group “Innen”. Her work has been shown internationally, most recently at the Kunstverein Hildesheim, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, La Vénerie’, Brussels, and Knabstrup Kulturfabrik, Copenhagen. She is a founder of the cyberfeminist group Old Boys Network and has taught at the University of Lüneburg, University of Oldenburg and the Bauhaus Universität, Weimar.

In 1996, Cornelia Sollfrank created internet art works using "net art generator", a program that automatically creates art works from artefacts from the net. Since then, her work has dealt primarily with questions of Intellectual Property and artistic freedom. In "This is not by me", Sollfrank takes on the works of Andy Warhol and his extensive use of material from the media and advertising. The show features works that relate to Warhol´s practise of appropriation, including a video interview with Warhol that Sollfrank herself conducted, where he discusses questions of Intellectual Property.

While Intellectual Property seems like a remote and academic topic at first, it has an increasing impact on artists who work with found material from the media, with ready-mades and "object trouvés". Sollfrank´s incorporation of found material has actually prevented an exhibition of her work in Switzerland, because the curator was afraid of the legal ramifications of her use of material from Warhol´s work. "This is not by me" is the first presentation of Mrs. Sollfrank in the Philippines.

Solfrank is also a participant in "Asian Edition: A Conference on Media Piracy and Intellectual Property in Southeast Asia", which is sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Manila and the UP Film Institute. The conference takes place at the UP College of Mass Communication on 24 November 2006, and is organized by Tilman Baumgärtel, the curator of the exhibit and currently a Visiting Professor at the UP Film Institute.

“This is not by me” opens on 25 November 2006, 6pm at Mag:net Gallery Katipunan. The exhibit runs until 30 November 2006. For more information on Cornelia Sollfrank, please visit artwarez.