Private Project

pink to paper to yellow or green

The installation consists of a wooden construction covered with paper, onto which a stop-motion video is projected, underpinned with speech. I photographed and filmed over several weeks within a backdrop of paper and mirrored surfaces on which I painted in a high-contrast, abstract formal language. In addition, two female protagonists performed simple movement sequences while painting and being painted.
Through the cinematic process of animation, the painting seems to come to life. It talks, flicks, hesitates, is restless and changes in lustful cascades. Collaged spoken phrases seem to moderate and expand the associative space of the color events. Some of the phrases were inspired by poems of the writers John Ashbury, Dorothea Lasky and William Carlos Willliams.

  • Rahel Barbara Pötsch
    Director
  • Rahel Barbara Pötsch
    Producer
  • Clara Maria Pötsch
    Key Cast
  • Aileen Murphy
    Key Cast
  • Paul Rohlfs
    colour grading
  • Johannes Welz
    sound mixing
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Visual Art
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 17 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 24, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    5,600 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    English, German
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Solo Exhibition for the duration of 6 weeks
    Oschatz
    Germany
    December 26, 2022
    German Premiere
Director Biography - Rahel Barbara Pötsch

*1987 in Berlin
living and working in Berlin

Training:

2023 - training "Fachkraft für kulturelle Bildung", certificate from Alice-Salomon-University Berlin
2017/18 - study at Städelschule in Frankfurt/ Main
with Prof. Amy Sillman and Prof. Monica Baer
2015 - 2017 - postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, with Prof.Johannes Wohnseifer and Raimund Krumme
2011 - guest semester at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Hans Scheirl
2008 - 2013 studies of painting/graphics at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, graduated with distinction

Solo Exhibitions:

2024 "drum color"(working title) in Arthothek Cologne
2022 „pink to paper to yellow or green“,
video installation at Berggut Oschatz
2018 „5 Eimer Weiß - 3 Eimer Orange“, video installation at Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
2013 „Drought“, exhibition and film screening at Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen

Group Exhibitions with Installations of my Videos/ Festivals :

2023 "green sky, soft shoulder", with Nicl Barbro in Mauer, Cologne
2022 „la suée“ Galerie b2, Leipzig
2021 Screening at .mpeg art space, Leipzig
2021 „Sunset Drivers“, Billstraße Hamburg
2021 „Traum von Tuilerien“, Harburger Bahnhof Kunstverein with Nicl Barbro
2020 „Boboli Börnicke/ Green Cube Event” curated by Rahel Pötsch in Börnicke by Berlin
2018/19 „Marler Medienkunstpreise“, exhibition in Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
2018 „+thecologne.biennale”, Cologne
2018 „Die Walz”, Wildgarten Frankfurt
2017 „Switchers - the Air Biennale”, curated by Real Positive, gallery Sans titre (2016), Paris
2016 „Switchers”, curated by Real Positive, gallery Fiebach/Minninger, Köln
2015 „Are you series“, Philara – Contemporary art space, Düsseldorf
2014 „Die Pferde sind schon tot“, Kunstverein Rottweil
2014 tricky women - International Animation Festival
2014. FIPA - Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels, Biarritz
2013 »extra - experimental trails«, festival for experimental film and video art, Leipzig

Awards/ Funding/ Nominations/ Residencies

2022 Exhibition funding/small project funding Cultural State of Saxony
2022 NEUSTART KULTUR - Scholarship of the foundation Kunstfonds Bonn
2021 Concept funding Cultural Office Leipzig with Constanze Kerth
2021 Performance residency at „4fürTanz“, Leipzig
2021 Grant of the federal program NEUSTART KULTUR of
Deutscher Künstlerbund, Modul D
2021 Funding of the film production "Dreams of Tuileries" by DB / Smart City
2020 Project funding by Kulturstaat Sachsen with Constanze Kerth
2018 Roger-Pailhas-Prize with Agata Ingarden
2018 Nomination "Marler Media Art Awards“, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
2018 Nomination "Great Art Award of the KHM
2015 Award of the Circle of Friends of the KHM

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Director Statement

I work at the interface between painting, performance and video in self-created or existing environments. My video installations are spacious and immersive and include video, animation and sound. For a long time I have been developing painterly-filmic structures in which physical improvisation, voice and musical composition, color tone and timbre work reciprocally. Historically feminized themes of female art from a paternalistic point of view, such as the body, decoration, lyricism and psychologization, I take up as subversive material.