https://paulafoerster.com PAULA FOERSTER Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:29:03 +0000 https://paulafoerster.com en https://paulafoerster.com/home-image Tue, 30 Aug 2022 22:23:11 +0000 PAULA FOERSTER https://paulafoerster.com/home-image <img width="2499" height="3500" width_o="2499" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83bb284088aff04f1ac8ab1fe9d871bfffb7bb1873db960c84d019c2f0c3a126/dog-for-webcrop2.jpg" data-mid="195786175" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83bb284088aff04f1ac8ab1fe9d871bfffb7bb1873db960c84d019c2f0c3a126/dog-for-webcrop2.jpg" /> https://paulafoerster.com/Nav-mobile Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:40:12 +0000 PAULA FOERSTER https://paulafoerster.com/Nav-mobile we miss you&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ground floor (1) ground floor (2) Bio/info https://paulafoerster.com/we-miss-you Tue, 30 Aug 2022 20:41:58 +0000 PAULA FOERSTER https://paulafoerster.com/we-miss-you <img width="4000" height="3962" width_o="4000" height_o="3962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c2e8c3270ca39ef938c6efc9b7f8e6884e295ac5238a7bb4cf2f4d100e4d5f1/149.DE-ATELIERSheller-OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.jpg" data-mid="162264780" border="0" alt="we miss u, 2020, installation view" data-caption="we miss u, 2020, installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c2e8c3270ca39ef938c6efc9b7f8e6884e295ac5238a7bb4cf2f4d100e4d5f1/149.DE-ATELIERSheller-OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.jpg" />installation view <img width="5000" height="3222" width_o="5000" height_o="3222" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1426c9cf4e7ddd8461e5cbb350ecb62d21777bbb08aadd62de3804470f99cb4f/147.DE-ATELIERS--OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.jpg" data-mid="162264779" border="0" alt="we miss u, 2020, installation view" data-caption="we miss u, 2020, installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1426c9cf4e7ddd8461e5cbb350ecb62d21777bbb08aadd62de3804470f99cb4f/147.DE-ATELIERS--OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.jpg" />installation view <img width="5370" height="6969" width_o="5370" height_o="6969" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/426f12de190e7228602685d543b4481d6abc63e8f919927785625a081521b27b/zigzadweb.jpg" data-mid="151674428" border="0" alt="sun, 2020, 200 x 170 cm foam board, plaster, pigment, acrylic, oil" data-caption="sun, 2020, 200 x 170 cm foam board, plaster, pigment, acrylic, oil" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/426f12de190e7228602685d543b4481d6abc63e8f919927785625a081521b27b/zigzadweb.jpg" />Sun <img width="2984" height="4000" width_o="2984" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf3639703b8144d465219330554d46a107d1b8236fba6d6cc794ba2ed01b37ac/151.DE-ATELIERS--OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.jpg" data-mid="162264785" border="0" alt="we miss u, 2020, 220 x 200 cm foam board, plaster, pigment, acrylic, UV print" data-caption="we miss u, 2020, 220 x 200 cm foam board, plaster, pigment, acrylic, UV print" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf3639703b8144d465219330554d46a107d1b8236fba6d6cc794ba2ed01b37ac/151.DE-ATELIERS--OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.jpg" />we miss u <img width="2362" height="3553" width_o="2362" height_o="3553" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99cc979c807e841bcc799c018e7f9785b65d7ec4bb3a8d3c9d626f1a756994ef/PAULA08.jpg" data-mid="162264782" border="0" alt="we miss u, 2020, detail" data-caption="we miss u, 2020, detail" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99cc979c807e841bcc799c018e7f9785b65d7ec4bb3a8d3c9d626f1a756994ef/PAULA08.jpg" />we miss u, &nbsp;detail <img width="4000" height="2777" width_o="4000" height_o="2777" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9f7279dc1aa284c9f1a001ca1cb5f0ee90cd52a76e20db7a50ab7257321f466/145.DE-ATELIERS--OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.jpg" data-mid="162264777" border="0" alt="untitled (bedside), 2020, 7 x 10 x 3 cm found objects" data-caption="untitled (bedside), 2020, 7 x 10 x 3 cm found objects" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9f7279dc1aa284c9f1a001ca1cb5f0ee90cd52a76e20db7a50ab7257321f466/145.DE-ATELIERS--OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.jpg" />untitled (bedside) <img width="6969" height="4953" width_o="6969" height_o="4953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/394571ff71fa558e00a24428907b89536bd703f8308e36ac193787fa36ff3fa2/146.DE-ATELIERSheller-OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.vanROOIJ.jpg" data-mid="151674424" border="0" alt="we miss u, 2020, installation view" data-caption="we miss u, 2020, installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/394571ff71fa558e00a24428907b89536bd703f8308e36ac193787fa36ff3fa2/146.DE-ATELIERSheller-OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.vanROOIJ.jpg" />installation view <img width="2856" height="4000" width_o="2856" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cf5bca02fde97c6cbb243087b72bbdfe52ed0140b3d1d64660e36ca6440c36a/lavender.jpg" data-mid="162264783" border="0" alt="lavender, 2020, 175 x 120 cm foam board, plaster, pigment, acrylic, UV print" data-caption="lavender, 2020, 175 x 120 cm foam board, plaster, pigment, acrylic, UV print" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cf5bca02fde97c6cbb243087b72bbdfe52ed0140b3d1d64660e36ca6440c36a/lavender.jpg" />lavender <img width="2733" height="2122" width_o="2733" height_o="2122" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/393d050df1eedb879ba696d12d3dd176fb0b0170e855d5815ee32c2dd33c582e/rerun_ohne_text.jpg" data-mid="162264781" border="0" alt="rerun, 2020, 29 x 39 cm oil on canvas" data-caption="rerun, 2020, 29 x 39 cm oil on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/393d050df1eedb879ba696d12d3dd176fb0b0170e855d5815ee32c2dd33c582e/rerun_ohne_text.jpg" />rerun <img width="3618" height="2856" width_o="3618" height_o="2856" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51271aa201ec83097289ef0e56ef41b90da1a39fbbc26a1cc4653de27e88fcac/_MG_2720.jpg" data-mid="162264778" border="0" alt="intrudress, 2020, 29 x 39 cm oil on canvas" data-caption="intrudress, 2020, 29 x 39 cm oil on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51271aa201ec83097289ef0e56ef41b90da1a39fbbc26a1cc4653de27e88fcac/_MG_2720.jpg" />intrudress&nbsp; <img width="2713" height="2160" width_o="2713" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51699e2be202e477bf61581cb28348a16f2cd6cb73d5a9e207f30cb1903f1496/small_3ohnetext.jpg" data-mid="162264786" border="0" alt="bathing, 2020, 29 x 39 cm oil on canvas" data-caption="bathing, 2020, 29 x 39 cm oil on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51699e2be202e477bf61581cb28348a16f2cd6cb73d5a9e207f30cb1903f1496/small_3ohnetext.jpg" />bathing <img width="4000" height="2618" width_o="4000" height_o="2618" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33d0fc1d4196d27fc3e1973d8b7a47303044519df758f5fbe46feaabb4bb5fee/152.DE-ATELIERS--OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.jpg" data-mid="162264784" border="0" alt="pisser, 2020, 22 x 20 cm oil on canvas" data-caption="pisser, 2020, 22 x 20 cm oil on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33d0fc1d4196d27fc3e1973d8b7a47303044519df758f5fbe46feaabb4bb5fee/152.DE-ATELIERS--OFF-SPRING---ZIG-ZAG--2020-PH.GJ.jpg" />pisser <img width="2953" height="3217" width_o="2953" height_o="3217" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e927285799cd80790adfb6d39b9e120141bf549cb4442a3804e9853fdb94e36a/pisser2.jpg" data-mid="151674426" border="0" alt="pisser, 2019, 22 x 20 cm oil on canvas" data-caption="pisser, 2019, 22 x 20 cm oil on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e927285799cd80790adfb6d39b9e120141bf549cb4442a3804e9853fdb94e36a/pisser2.jpg" />pisser_1 we miss youA lightness of touch disguises the hard-nosed humour in the work of Paula Förster. Employing arange of painterly approaches, her works on canvas, dry wall and photographs wryly combine tropes of youth and the everyday with elements borrowed from the archives of art history thus speaking simultaneously of personal experiences and more impersonal spans of time. A series of small oil washes on canvas depict intimate snapshots of domestic spaces that appear at once familiar and out of time. A certain self-conscious naïveté induced by loose brush strokes and a palette reminiscent of childhood is undercut by the dry lack of romanticism in their framing. For example, in a small bathroom a shower curtain sprinkled with butterflies hangs in close proximity to a toilet while in another painting the corner of an unlit room contrasts with the illumination of a bathroom. One can detect a similarly austere humour in the decision to foreground a horse’s ass in sun (2020), surrounded only by flowers and on a monochrome background. The work responds to Paolo Uccello’s La Battaglia di San Romano (1438), in which riders become lost in an indistinct sea of armour, while a horse’s muscular buttocks looms resolutely at centre stage. Based on the same painting, rerun (2020) shows three seemingly floating figures on horseback, adrift in a loose, transparent wash of empty space. The glory of battle has been similarly drained out of the warriors and instead these figures become something closer to figurines, toys unceremoniously abandoned on a nursery floor. In a new series, Förster employs techniques of collage to incorporate photographs taken on her phone. Glued onto dry wall they undergo a process of merging with the brittle surface of pigmented plaster while still retaining their ‘otherness’. The works share a sense of loneliness and thereby draw attention to the night-time as a non-structural, temporal space. Fabian Schöneich https://paulafoerster.com/ground-floor-1 Thu, 01 Sep 2022 22:32:44 +0000 PAULA FOERSTER https://paulafoerster.com/ground-floor-1 <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eac63c60b1d683a4bd834733348360ffbb1073162be7db2780dda882f3729b80/Install_1.jpg" data-mid="162247785" border="0" alt="ground floor, 2022, installation view" data-caption="ground floor, 2022, installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eac63c60b1d683a4bd834733348360ffbb1073162be7db2780dda882f3729b80/Install_1.jpg" />installation view <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c471ed00b61a42e7d4fa76564e4e7c43b0acfee0ce91a7113ad6b52f53d91866/install_3.jpg" data-mid="162262056" border="0" alt="ground floor, 2022, installation view" data-caption="ground floor, 2022, installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c471ed00b61a42e7d4fa76564e4e7c43b0acfee0ce91a7113ad6b52f53d91866/install_3.jpg" /> installation view <img width="2668" height="4000" width_o="2668" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bab72155781cd73b9bb33d796f9fd81990e26533bcc75ac7657deaad32a61e08/groundfloor_1.jpg" data-mid="162258891" border="0" alt="ground floor_1, 2022, 135 x 50 cm oil on canvas" data-caption="ground floor_1, 2022, 135 x 50 cm oil on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bab72155781cd73b9bb33d796f9fd81990e26533bcc75ac7657deaad32a61e08/groundfloor_1.jpg" /> ground floor_1 <img width="2668" height="4000" width_o="2668" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c23fc8f0c2dd7d3562d05943d95dc4e71b552e0298ace2d85c6c1bc95ebe2984/groundfloor_2.jpg" data-mid="162260041" border="0" alt="ground floor_2, 2022, 135 x 50 cm oil on canvas" data-caption="ground floor_2, 2022, 135 x 50 cm oil on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c23fc8f0c2dd7d3562d05943d95dc4e71b552e0298ace2d85c6c1bc95ebe2984/groundfloor_2.jpg" />ground floor_2 <img width="2668" height="4000" width_o="2668" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae3ed6e872b5fd8cd44efbf51946e6b66c6eb48b713759b686739d6fb1b92852/groundfloor_3.jpg" data-mid="162260128" border="0" alt="ground floor_3, 2022, 75 x 60 cm oil on canvas" data-caption="ground floor_3, 2022, 75 x 60 cm oil on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae3ed6e872b5fd8cd44efbf51946e6b66c6eb48b713759b686739d6fb1b92852/groundfloor_3.jpg" />ground floor_3 <img width="2668" height="4000" width_o="2668" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30357069587cdc583752d26d86282b1dd4a3272b999898a7664f354cc05d8cc6/ground-floor_4.jpg" data-mid="162260040" border="0" alt="ground floor_4, 2022, variable dimension acrylic on stones, pressed flowers" data-caption="ground floor_4, 2022, variable dimension acrylic on stones, pressed flowers" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30357069587cdc583752d26d86282b1dd4a3272b999898a7664f354cc05d8cc6/ground-floor_4.jpg" />ground floor_4 ground floorHinter der Leichtigkeit der Arbeiten von Paula Förster verbirgt sich ein hartnäckiger Humor. Im Zentrum von Försters Arbeit, die sich auf Malerei und Collage konzentriert, stehen Bilder von allgegenwärtigen, scheinbar unbedeutenden Gegenständen, Szenerien und Akteur:innen ihres Alltags, die sie zunächst mit der Kamera ihres Telefons einfängt. Durch den Einsatz einer breiten Palette malerischer Techniken erfahren diese scheinbar banalen Bilder ihres persönlichen Archivs Transformationen, die ambivalente Lesarten eröffnen. So setzt sich Förster wiederholt mit der Ästhetik desNiedlichen und vermeintlich Harmlosen auseinander. In Försters Arbeit steht selten eine Arbeit für sich. Vielmehr kreieren sie untereinander ein Netzwerk, das Narrative skizziert, ohne sie vollends auszuführen. Bisweilen geschieht dies auf aquarellhaften Kleinformaten, bisweilen in detaillierten Malereien mit einer zeichnerischen Qualität, die sich neben Leinwand auch auf mit Gips grundierten Bauplatten wiederfinden. In ihrer Ausstellung ground floor, kombiniert sie &nbsp;spielerisch Szenen aus öffentlichen und privaten Räumen, die ähnlich wie das Wohnen im Erdgeschoss deren Grenzen verschwimmen lassen. https://paulafoerster.com/ground-floor-2 Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:29:03 +0000 PAULA FOERSTER https://paulafoerster.com/ground-floor-2 <img width="2668" height="4000" width_o="2668" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13286c934c00a6673ed74cce923ec7a4d1b4c9ea62b84177d00239f6865fe542/coming-of-age-pigeon.jpg" data-mid="162867529" border="0" alt="coming of age (pigeon), 2022, 170 x 120 cm plaster and pigment on foam board" data-caption="coming of age (pigeon), 2022, 170 x 120 cm plaster and pigment on foam board" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13286c934c00a6673ed74cce923ec7a4d1b4c9ea62b84177d00239f6865fe542/coming-of-age-pigeon.jpg" />coming of age (pigeon)&nbsp; <img width="4961" height="3508" width_o="4961" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93acf84eb2ecda80302e536b3182ee45f77e948eb73dab1cd93f009ea83b3a75/Portfolio_12.jpg" data-mid="162867525" border="0" alt="coming of age (pigeon), 2022, detail" data-caption="coming of age (pigeon), 2022, detail" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93acf84eb2ecda80302e536b3182ee45f77e948eb73dab1cd93f009ea83b3a75/Portfolio_12.jpg" /> coming of age (pigeon), detail <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/711c26570d01e3d3b6fd7de9728e5b86ed7468be96bbb7e2d1b004a7f2fb2c36/_A7R8528.jpg" data-mid="162869358" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/711c26570d01e3d3b6fd7de9728e5b86ed7468be96bbb7e2d1b004a7f2fb2c36/_A7R8528.jpg" /> installation view <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c293967528f1a2773eb8cc9cde2e83782c3220cc20cf489da9c1ea09cc6a7d9/noise.jpg" data-mid="162867532" border="0" alt="noise, 2022, 30 x 40 cm oil and paper on canvas" data-caption="noise, 2022, 30 x 40 cm oil and paper on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c293967528f1a2773eb8cc9cde2e83782c3220cc20cf489da9c1ea09cc6a7d9/noise.jpg" />noise&nbsp; <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d591ba9e31168a31fd9c1160ae405f78dcf59ced47243ffa4bc6e21c72a3475/passive-aggressive.jpg" data-mid="162867535" border="0" alt="passive aggressive, 2022, 30 x 40 cm oil on canvas" data-caption="passive aggressive, 2022, 30 x 40 cm oil on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d591ba9e31168a31fd9c1160ae405f78dcf59ced47243ffa4bc6e21c72a3475/passive-aggressive.jpg" />passive aggressive <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4159297b18dc93f65c03fc3c879a28768267dc84c6b3bdf660f3d03e847558c0/_A7R8540.jpg" data-mid="162869359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4159297b18dc93f65c03fc3c879a28768267dc84c6b3bdf660f3d03e847558c0/_A7R8540.jpg" />installation view <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ed6946b5beaa23b5e26cd7f5e9c3d630e1254e0820b8e6f171e17cb2d1e3725/Nachtschattengewachs.jpg" data-mid="162867533" border="0" alt="Nachtschattengew&auml;chs, 2022, 30 x 40 cm oil on canvas" data-caption="Nachtschattengewächs, 2022, 30 x 40 cm oil on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ed6946b5beaa23b5e26cd7f5e9c3d630e1254e0820b8e6f171e17cb2d1e3725/Nachtschattengewachs.jpg" />Nachtschattengewächs&nbsp; <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a8711056c5365a032e699b897c50c0b2069f35c9d037c8af95ad95e197fbe47/bbyyngcare.jpg" data-mid="162867528" border="0" alt="bbyyngcare, 2020, 29 x 39 cm oil on canvas" data-caption="bbyyngcare, 2020, 29 x 39 cm oil on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a8711056c5365a032e699b897c50c0b2069f35c9d037c8af95ad95e197fbe47/bbyyngcare.jpg" /> bbyyngcare <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fb2876ec249676c237bfbce365f0f388e55b687852792cfc17cf4888031128f/install_2.jpg" data-mid="162867534" border="0" alt="ground floor, 2022, installation view" data-caption="ground floor, 2022, installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5fb2876ec249676c237bfbce365f0f388e55b687852792cfc17cf4888031128f/install_2.jpg" /> installation view ground floorHinter der Leichtigkeit der Arbeiten von Paula Förster verbirgt sich ein hartnäckiger Humor. Im Zentrum von Försters Arbeit, die sich auf Malerei und Collage konzentriert, stehen Bilder von allgegenwärtigen, scheinbar unbedeutenden Gegenständen, Szenerien und Akteur:innen ihres Alltags, die sie zunächst mit der Kamera ihres Telefons einfängt. Durch den Einsatz einer breiten Palette malerischer Techniken erfahren diese scheinbar banalen Bilder ihres persönlichen Archivs Transformationen, die ambivalente Lesarten eröffnen. So setzt sich Förster wiederholt mit der Ästhetik desNiedlichen und vermeintlich Harmlosen auseinander. In Försters Arbeit steht selten eine Arbeit für sich. Vielmehr kreieren sie untereinander ein Netzwerk, das Narrative skizziert, ohne sie vollends auszuführen. Bisweilen geschieht dies auf aquarellhaften Kleinformaten, bisweilen in detaillierten Malereien mit einer zeichnerischen Qualität, die sich neben Leinwand auch auf mit Gips grundierten Bauplatten wiederfinden. In ihrer Ausstellung ground floor, kombiniert sie &nbsp;spielerisch Szenen aus öffentlichen und privaten Räumen, die ähnlich wie das Wohnen im Erdgeschoss deren Grenzen verschwimmen lassen. https://paulafoerster.com/bio-info Wed, 07 Sep 2022 20:07:34 +0000 PAULA FOERSTER https://paulafoerster.com/bio-info Exhibitions 2022ground floor (part 1), Baustelle Schaustelle, Düsseldorf ground floor (part 2),Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen 2020Offspring: Zigzag Curated by Fabian Schöneich, De Ateliers, Amsterdam It’s a match &nbsp;Curated by Wilko Austermann as part of düsseldorf photo+, Antichambre, Düsseldorf 2019I engineerBaumwollspinnerei, Leipzig 2018Out of Thin AirReinwardtstraat, Amsterdam 2017nine2five Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Publications 2021 SNOOPER #2 PETSITTER SNOOPER Radio as part of Lonely Planet, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL 2020Offspring: ZigzagDe Ateliers, Amsterdam