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Sebastian Häger * 1979 lives and works in Berlin.
Between 2009 and 2015 he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and his works were on display during the regular annual UdK tours. In 2015, he left the UdK with the Master of Arts degree and the accompanying course as a curator at their Career Center. Between 2006 and 2009 he was part of an artist collective, which temporarily worked in the former Kindl brewery in Neukölln. Sebastian Häger acts at the interface between artistic and curatorial practice.
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The works of Sebastian Häger reflect his approach towards a topography of the interspace. Within them, one is able to view the bizarre and concealed world hidden between paper layers. Through multiple overlaps and by means of analogical design interventions, new spaces are created that visualize the confusion of reality and illusion.
"I leave the house and follow the sidewalk to the right, just like I do on any other day. I reach an intersection. The sun is shining; people are passing by. While I wait for the traffic lights to switch, the rising sun breaks over an angled ridge of a roof and cuts the space diagonally in half. The top is almost completely illuminated and it seems as though in places the light has blasted away the facade peaks. It is a scenario of unreal architectural skeletons, an ever-changing play of light that happens takes place in my background. The ground level of shop windows and street displays constitute a low-contrast gray and the individual contours of design and motion seamlessly blend into each other. Once perceptible figures are peeled out of this haze, they become part of this spectacle. Light throws its projections through the glass of the windows, they break over the edges of tables, minimize in glasses – becoming barely perceptible short episodes of their interaction with light, space and its elements – a collage which is too short to perceive while in motion.
For this world of liquid, autopoietic textural landscapes, movement is a fundamental part. In my work I have found a way to freeze time and depict the playful world concealed within the movement of light and space."
- Sebastian Häger, 2017
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Between 2009 and 2015 he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and his works were on display during the regular annual UdK tours. In 2015, he left the UdK with the Master of Arts degree and the accompanying course as a curator at their Career Center. Between 2006 and 2009 he was part of an artist collective, which temporarily worked in the former Kindl brewery in Neukölln. Sebastian Häger acts at the interface between artistic and curatorial practice.
About
The works of Sebastian Häger reflect his approach towards a topography of the interspace. Within them, one is able to view the bizarre and concealed world hidden between paper layers. Through multiple overlaps and by means of analogical design interventions, new spaces are created that visualize the confusion of reality and illusion.
"I leave the house and follow the sidewalk to the right, just like I do on any other day. I reach an intersection. The sun is shining; people are passing by. While I wait for the traffic lights to switch, the rising sun breaks over an angled ridge of a roof and cuts the space diagonally in half. The top is almost completely illuminated and it seems as though in places the light has blasted away the facade peaks. It is a scenario of unreal architectural skeletons, an ever-changing play of light that happens takes place in my background. The ground level of shop windows and street displays constitute a low-contrast gray and the individual contours of design and motion seamlessly blend into each other. Once perceptible figures are peeled out of this haze, they become part of this spectacle. Light throws its projections through the glass of the windows, they break over the edges of tables, minimize in glasses – becoming barely perceptible short episodes of their interaction with light, space and its elements – a collage which is too short to perceive while in motion.
For this world of liquid, autopoietic textural landscapes, movement is a fundamental part. In my work I have found a way to freeze time and depict the playful world concealed within the movement of light and space."
- Sebastian Häger, 2017
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Exhibitions dedicated to Sebastian Häger
aquabitArt gallery
Dancing in the Smoke / A topography of the interspace
From August 24, 2017 to August 30, 2017
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1979