Sandra Peters

Modernism has been understood as a “grand narrative,” if only because that was the neat account its theorists fashioned of it; this account proved influential. It lent credence to efforts to unearth all—and there had been a whole lot—that had been excluded or marginalized…

Sound has been increasingly significant in Sandra Peters’s recent work. Yet it would be simplistic to call her output “sound art,” a label that, in the past twenty years, has come to designate a distinctive genre…

In 1920, Rudolph Michael Schindler arrived in Los Angeles to supervise the design and construction of a house for Aline Barnsdall under the distant direction of its master architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, who already had his hands full with the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Schindler was…

It is one thing to purchase Sandra Peters’s record as a multiple and to play it and listen to it on a turntable; it is other thing to hear the various tracks distributed across (at least) four loudspeakers and to experience in an installation how the sound evokes…

Watching a film is not the same as seeing it and wanting to know how it was made. The question is how what we see affects us. If we experience a film as particularly attractive or stimulating, then the question comes into play what can have such…

When Jun’ichuro Tanizaki published his essay “In’ei raisan” (translated as “In Praise of Shadows”) in 1933, he detected a fundamental difference between Western and Eastern cultures. For him, his difference lay above all in terms of two aspects…

When Peter Friese invited Sandra Peters to develop a site-specific work for the Kunstverein Ruhr in Essen, he can hardly have suspected what awaited him. For the artist’s intervention affects not only the perception…

Sandra Peters has designed an elaborate and at the same time clear installation for the exhibition space of the Kunstverein Ruhr on Essen’s Kopstadtplatz. She clad the two columns within the space with round bricks produced and burned…

Die Worte, die die traditionellen bildenden Künste bezeichnen – Zeichnung, Malerei, Skulptur, Architektur – , beziehen sich auf materielle Verfahren, die als konstitutiv für diese Künste angesehen wurden: das Setzen von Zeichen oder das Ziehen…