Karin’s solo exhibition Transformation 2.0 – Fotografische Objekte was to have opened in the Galerie Altes Haus der Burg Neustadt-Glewe, the oldest military castle in Mecklenburg, Germany in May 2020. Because of Corona Virus the exhibition was postponed. The good news is that it was rescheduled and ran from 12 June 2022 to 21 August 2022.

The banner outside the gallery Altes Haus

Inside the Gallery

The Private View (Vernissage) took place on 12 June 2022 at 11.00 when the Bürgermeisterin, Frau Doreen Radelow, opened the exhibition.

Die Bürgermeisterin of Neustadt-Glewe opening the exhibition

The title Transformation 2.0 – Fotografische Objekte marks the changes that have taken place since 1993 when this cycle of work on the last industrial spice-grinding mill, Butlers Wharf, London was first shown in London, Bristol and Hamburg under the title Transformation.  Transformation 2.0 – Fotografische Objekte  includes work which was not in the original exhibition.

The title also refers to the way Karin works with the single unedited photograph as her medium. From the multiples of one, rarely two photos she creates an abstract image. These constructed images, mounted on board and framed under glass, explore through their formal layout and content the complexity of the industrial processes and the transformation of a working industrial mill into an enchanting Aladdin’s cave at the point of its closure. Plant/machinery/cogwheel and plant/spice/flower merge into one organic whole.Karin’s work invites the viewer to consider that something is irretrievably being lost.

The Burg Galerie Altes Haus

It is a particular joy to Karin, to bring this exhibition to Neustadt-Glewe, a delightful small town hugged by the river Elde. In this town her father and his two brothers grew up. Werner, the youngest was the first to die. He was 18. The war broke out and by the end of it, father’s parents had passed away and Otti, the middle son, never returned from the front. Father remained silent about himself and the town where he had briefly set up home as a newly wed man to a girl from Parchim a few kilometres away. Perhaps this exhibition will bring ‘home’ the family she never met; will transform loss and absence into living memory? 

Millstone x 2
Multiples of one photograph on board
w 93 cm x h 123 cm
Framed under glass