Katharina Sieverding: Close up ; [on occasion of the exhibition, organized by PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art affiliate, Long Island City, NY and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Katharina Sieverding: Close up]

Katharina Sieverding's central theme is identity. She repeatedly portrays her own face, raising it to the iconic status of collective individuality. For some years now, she has also created 'visual studies' on human communication and violence as tools of global politics. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in P. S.1, this comprehensive catalog contains about 450 full-page portraits of the artist from 1969 to today, among others „Life-Death I –VII“, „Maton I –VII/1“, „The Sun at Midnight“, „Motor Camera“, „Trans-former“, „Stauffenberg Block“. Alanna Heiss' introduction to Sieverding's work is complemented by detailed essays on various aspects of her art. Talking to iP. S.1 /Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 2004. Ein umfangreiches Bilderbuch mit rund 450 ganzseitigen Porträts der Künstlerin von 1969 bis heute sowie zahlreichen Essays. KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, September 2005. nterviewer Sabeth Buchmann, the artist comments her own work.