I work conceptually and in relation to the respective location with its architecture, function and people. The concept emerges from the location. It only works in the place for which it was developed. The concept determines the choice of material and technique. Visually, my works are very different. The underlying approach is my signature.

Thematically, I am interested in fundamental philosophical questions. The resulting works encourage reflection on these questions and allow visitors to experience these issues in all their complexity, blurriness and ambivalence.

Birthe Blauth

Birthe Blauth starts in her works from the investigation of a wide variety of phenomena and situations. To trace her conceptual approach, Blauth's academic career is significant. Born in Munich, she studied sinology, ethnology, and art history with a focus on religious anthropology, and received her doctorate with a thesis on the fox demon in ancient China. It is an interest in knowledge of cultural imprints on the individual and society that drives her. Uncovering hidden structures of these imprints through scientific work is the starting point of her work, to which she also adheres as a visual artist. The possibilities of scientific language alone offered her too little freedom to be able to formulate something new. In her artistic work, Birthe Blauth is free to respond pictorially to what she uncovers through her search for traces. In conversation with her, there is talk of the "expression for the approximate" that this makes possible. Birthe Blauth responds to the imprecise or unspeakable, for which the human imagination in all cultures searches for symbols and images, with a remarkable precision in her formal settings. Regardless of the artistic technique she uses, the intellectual as well as the aesthetic sharpness in the execution of an idea is a consistent characteristic of her works.

Martin Matl, diocesan master builder in the diocese of Fulda, in "das münster" 3, 2022

 

 

Birthe Blauth examines with strategic clarity human individuality in the tension between established cultural, biographical and neurological parameters. She portrays it as process in video works and multi-part installations which lay open to the observer’s perception selected image sequences that playfully combine fiction with reality. Through subtle variation, she prompts the observer to question his/her perceptions and to think.

Prof. Dr. Stephan Berg, director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn, jury of Germany’s BundesGEDOK Kunstpreis 2010

 

 

Her conceptual work looks at the individual and explores the contingent relationship between the single and the space. Blauth’s art is extremely meditative and limpid, but close scrutiny lets the viewer grasp the true complexity of its message. Her visual work helps to vary the perception of the difference between fiction and reality, questioning the border between the two. Her art expands and diversifies amongst installation, video, sound, text and performances.

Maurizio Buccquiccio, curator ikonotv, Artist of the Month June 2012