Adrian Sauer @ Klemm’s showroom | Gallery Weekend Berlin 2021

‚Adrian Sauer’s serial celestial pictures intimate the spatial expanse and polymorphism of potential skies; they describe the never-ending interplay of color and shape that the heavens demonstrate.‘

Saskia Dams, ‚What Color is the Sky?‘, Adrian Sauer Spektren, 2019.

For our third installment of our ’showroom days‘ during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2021, we are delighted to share two beautiful works by Adrian Sauer.

Adrian Sauer analyses the photography of the digital age. He has received a number of scholarships, including the Casa Baldi scholarship of the German Academy in Rome (2013) and a working scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (2007).

Sauer explores aspects, applications and ways of producing digital images. He poses questions concerning the limits of the image in an age where camera images are increasingly becoming hybrid constructs of light measurement and mathematical calculations. Sauer’s approach revolves around creating new digital compositions on the basis of his own photographs. In doing so, he gradually covers the existing image, bit by bit, with a new layer of colour. The reality of the photograph is replaced by the processing and reality of the studio where Sauer’s images are re-created. Likewise, he discovers irritating changes that result from the technique of photography.

“While some of his works are dedicated to the semantic and pragmatic dimension of image usage—how images are used and read within a certain context—his main interest lies in the ‘morphology’ of the digital image, his ‘form theory’: How is it constructed at the most minute level? How does the transfer work from a visible, physical reality towards a stored, calculated one? What does the range of new optical instruments have to offer?”

Florian Ebner, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2014

Adrian Sauer (b.1976) has shown his work extensively in recent years a.o. Pasquart Biel, CH; Sprengelmuseum, Hannover; Albertinum, Dresden; Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, DZ Bank Art Collection FfM; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH; Hermes Foundation, Bern, CH; Les Rencontres d‘Arles and Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Kunstverein Oldenburg; The Albright-Knox, Buffalo; Centre Pompidou Metz; DZ Bank Art Collection.

It is part of several public collections e.g. Sammlung des Bundes/Federal State of Germany; MDBK Leipzig; Museum Folkwang; Sammlung d. Freistaates Sachsen, Dresden; Collection Helga de Alvear, Spain; The Albright Knox Collection; Sammlung Philara; Sammlung Olbricht; Zabludowicz Collection London; BES Arte Lissabon; Bank of Spain Collection; DZ Bank Collection; Berlinische Galerie; SAP Art Collection; PS21 Collection San Francisco.