Heidi Sieverding

About

Heidi Sieverding was born in 1972 in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts as a sculptor from AKI, Art Academy in Enschede, Netherlands in 1998. She moved to Berlin in the same year, where she has lived and worked ever since.

Statement

After studying sculpture, I questioned this artistic genre as a space of experience and allowed other media, genres and subjects equal access to my artistic exploration. Drawings, objects, installations and paintings were created. In the further course I experimented with moving images, auditory and textual extensions of my positions. My portfolio also includes playing with media and/or genre shifts and fakes.

I'm looking for spaces that are undefined, in which I might deprive the viewer of the possibility of an aesthetic classification and instead accompany him, so to speak, into the unsettling vacuum.
I am interested in the unformed, undefined and the over-forming that leads to demolding. Just like a lump of clay still contains the infinite potential of all malleable possibilities, which can only refer to it through its own image. I therefore dealt with the Mosaic ban on images and understand iconoclasm as the opposite. I'm not into destroying images, but try to break their iconic semantics, to empty them through transformation and transport. I am not looking for the essence or the ideal formed by reduction. No minimalism but maximalism of a playful chaos, as an answer to an increasingly threatening chaos of realities.

Content maximum correlates with media maximum. That's why I work both analogue and digital. In my 2-3 and time-dimensional works, I let the range of media used influence each other, connect and relate to each other. The medium as a message that reproduces itself, so to speak, as a mirror in a mirror, pointing to something infinite. I process image material, signs, from smileys to screenshots, images from the Internet into digital paintings, collages, animations or use their impressions, the equivalent juxtaposition of their forms, colors, stories and symbols in analogue paintings, drawings and objects. These have the opportunity to flow back into the non-analog space as a photo and digital use and everything vice versa. I would like questions like: who or what is located, how, where and why?

A material generated by artificial intelligence enables me to use an additional visual language that arises from poetic text inputs (prompts) and requires my curatorial commitment. I take advantage of this mechanical creativity for a targeted flood of images. I play with visual ideas of contexts, for example exhibition situations that do not depict reality, but are in turn digitally created meta-spaces. These in turn create real places, an interlacing of the digital with the analogue spaces. For these I create analogue, haptically perceptible objects and drawings, from and with digital productions. Through this switching, I would like to juxtapose the losing human body in digital space as repositioned and perhaps repostulated in analogue space.