Sonja Heim
1997. Based in Düsseldorf
The work of Sonja Heim is characterized by its intense engagement with classism: its mechanisms, its effects, and the exclusions which result from it. She prefers a space-specific way of working, which uses ready-mades to make subtle interventions in exhibition architecture. She favors materials drawn from craft or mass-industrial contexts, like glass beads, as well as small objects usually associated with "handicrafts," like glitter and rhinestones. These objects can be seen as having an affiliation to a particular social class and to a private sphere of work, seen as a "hobby" and in this way placed outside of artistic, public forms of expression. (Katharina Klang)