Category Archives: Photography

WINDOWS: Views into the Landscape

Treppenhausfenster / Landschaft
Finestre di Scale / Paesaggio
Stairwell Window / Landscape
Block / Lotto  5 // Level / Piano  9
Afternoon
35 mm Focal Length
Photographs / Montage
Archive Print
75 × 50 cm (Image Size)


Treppenhausfenster / Landschaft
Finestre di Scale / Paesaggio
Stairwell Window / Landscape
Block / Lotto  3 Level / Piano  8
Afternoon
35 mm Focal Length
Photographs / Montage
Archive Print
75 × 50 cm (Image Size)


Martina Wolf interessiert sich für Strukturen, Geome­trien und Stadtlandschaften, die das Gegenteil dessen darstellen, was wir herkömmlich als idyllisch identifi­zieren. Im Rahmen eines Reise- und Rechercheprojektes zur künstlerischen Rezeption der italienischen Landschaft hat die Künstlerin sich ein auf den ersten Blick ungewöhnliches Motiv ausgesucht: Nuovo Corviale, ein langgestreckter, mauerartiger Wohnblock, der die Stadt Rom von der römischen Campagna trennt. Die Trennung funktioniert noch heute. Blickt man aus den oberen Geschossen in Richtung Westen, sieht man einen grünen Hang, Gemüsegärten, im Frühjahr weiden die Schafe. Idylle der römischen Campagna.

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Transformer House Wall / Neon Light

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Transformer House Wall. Wall / Neon Light
Transformatoren-Haus-Wand. Wand / Neonlicht
Daniel Marzona. Berlin. 2017
Video Projection / Exhibition View

The video work Transformatoren-Haus-Wand / Neonlicht (transformer-house-wall / neon light) shows the wall of a house with large surfaces painted in different colors, photographed in downtown Moscow. There are traces of graffiti, which the authorities do not tolerate and have tried to expunge by painting them over with oil and emulsion paints in various tones. Wolf’s media artworks are created successively. First, she photographed some of the overpainted house walls in Moscow, part for part, and put them back together as large pictures on a computer. As a video level, the photo of a neon light going on and off is laid over the wall photograph with its various degrees of brightness. The changes produce the actual video image: the colors of the wall flicker rhythmically in the light of the malfunctioning lamp. This simple combination of the static and the dynamic is characteristic of Wolf’s works.

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Photo Strips of uncovered Panels in the Connecting Corridor

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Photo Strips of uncovered Panels in the Connecting Corridor
Fotobänder von der Aufdeckung der Verkleidungen im Zwischenflur
Residenzschloss Bad Arolsen, Museum. 2016
Installation Views
Two Photo Strips. Each 700 x 48 cm (First Step)
25 Sections. Each 32 x 48 cm (Installation)
Direct Print on MDF
Photos: Axel Schneider

Text:  Showing up twice – A small school of seeing
Daniel Marzona: CONCEPTUALISED ON SITE, OR SPATIAL RE-CONTEXTUALISATION
Some remarks on Martina Wolf’s exhibition at the Museum Bad Arolsen
Catalogue: Reise nach Arglosen
Museum Bad Arolsen. 2016

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Coloured Cabinet with Bred and Beer

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Coloured Cabinet with Bred and Beer. Repainted Grafitti
Farbiger Schrank mit Brot und Bier. Übermale Graffiti
Moskau. 2011 / Bad Arolsen 2016
Residenzschloss Bad Arolsen, Museum. 2016
Motif and Installation View
Photographs / Digital Montage
Direct Print on MDF, Frames. 150 x 225 cm
Photo (Installation): Axel Schneider

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Text:  About Walls and People
Daniel Marzona: CONCEPTUALISED ON SITE, OR SPATIAL RE-CONTEXTUALISATION
Some remarks on Martina Wolf’s exhibition at the Museum Bad Arolsen
Catalogue: Reise nach Arglosen
Museum Bad Arolsen. 2016

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Sheet Metall Wall / Servants’ Doors

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Sheet Metal Wall. Repainted Grafitti
Blech-Wand. Übermale Graffiti
Moscow. 2011 / Bad Arolsen 2016
Residence Palace Bad Arolsen, Museum. 2016
Installation View
Photographs / Digital Montage
Print on adhessive-backes Film, Alu-Dibond,
Frames. 300 x 250 cm
Photo: Axel Schneider

Text: About Walls and People
Daniel Marzona: CONCEPTUALISED ON SITE, OR SPATIAL RE-CONTEXTUALISATION
Some remarks on Martina Wolf’s exhibition at the Museum Bad Arolsen
Catalogue: Reise nach Arglosen
Museum Bad Arolsen. 2016

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