Exhibition 'Raphaela Vogel, KRAAAN' in De Pont Museum of contemporary art
An all-consuming vortex, a sports car with the eyes of a cat and a carnivalesque procession of ten giraffes. The work of the German artist Raphaela Vogel offers a gateway to surprising worlds that upend all your prior knowledge and ideas. In only a short time, Vogel (Nuremberg, 1988) has captured the attention of the international art world with her large-scale installations, in which sculpture, painting, experimental videos and music all flow together to yield a theatrical whole. The resulting works pose provocative questions about topics ranging from gender to the possibility of relationships between people, animals and machines, and from monumental sculpture and the privilege enjoyed by artists to the position of women in a male-dominated world – and art world.
