Kirsten Kleie on the exhibition
Documentation Domagk (2013)
group exhibition
Kulturzentrum 2411, Munich, 2013

Strange and yet familiar are the objects in the pictures of Heike Bogenberger. As a part of the exhibition's presentation the delicate and sensitively composed color works can almost be read as sculptural works. Portraits of objects - a turquoise canvas chair, a delicate thistle, intertwined plastic tubes - become sculptures: independent objects, relieved of their original function. Detached from their environment they perform beyond place and time. In her photographs the line between art object and everyday object has disappeared.

Text: Kirsten Kleie, Leitung des Fachgebiets Fotografie & Video/Film der Münchner Volkshochschule

Kirsten Kleie on the exhibition
Documentation Domagk (2011)
group exhibition
Domagkgelände, Munich, 2011

Of transience and decay speak the images of Heike Bogenberger who is part of the project (Documentation Domagk) since 2007. Finding on-site traces is characteristic for her work. Yet it is not about scanning the surfaces of her found objects, but by a conscious use of color and dissolution of their environment they become melancholic portraits of objects. The monkey, the children's chair, the Trabant - in her images the photographed object obtains a personality and a story that is told only in the mind of the beholder. Heike Bogenberger herself says that from the beginning she was captured by the lively atmosphere of the site. The artists who lived on the premises gave the area its very unique, diverse and special character. Maybe that is why in her pictures the line between art object and everyday object simply disappears.

Text: Kirsten Kleie, Leitung des Fachgebiets Fotografie & Video/Film der Münchner Volkshochschule

Dr. Susanne Krones on the exhibition
sideways
solo exhibition
Jazz Club Unterfahrt, Munich, 2010

The exhibition sideways gathers motifs from Asia, South America, Europe and Antarctica which are connected through the photographs' perspective: focused on the essence of a moment, a constellation, an object. In her analog black-and-white photographs Heike Bogenberger glances through windows and fences, at structures and materials, at the abandoned and awaiting. Behind the surface she always unveils a second story, the moments captured in her pictures are speaking of the past and presence of things at the very same time.

Text: Dr. Susanne Krones