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“The function 
of the image has changed”

Susanne Pfeffer will curate the official German contribution to the 2017 Venice Biennale.

18.04.2016

Susanne Pfeffer, Director of the Fridericianum art gallery in Kassel and curator of the German contribution to the 2017 Venice Biennale likes to venture towards the very ground of pictorial worlds. In her current exhibition project, Images at the Fridericianum, she focuses on works from the first decade of the 21st century – and on the image as a “medium of reflection”. “I realised while doing the preparatory research that a fundamental reflection on the image is contained in many works. The genesis, distribution, function and task of the ­image have all changed considerably.”

“The great thing about this is that the images are free of hierarchies, they are equivalent, interchangeable and placeless.” Freedom, yes, randomness, no. Susanne Pfeffer is regarded internationally as a defining personality on the art scene. She is an advisor for MoMA PS1, a branch of the New York Museum of Modern Art for experimental contemporary art. And she is fully acquainted with the Venice Biennale: in 2015 she curated the Swiss Pavilion; in 2001 she was an assistant on the German Pavilion. That year Gregor Schneider won the Golden Lion for his installation Totes Haus u r.

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