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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Artist Henrike Naumann used sofas, chairs and coffee tables to interrogate a divided Germany

In 2019, the artist Henrike Naumann built an East German living room and rotated it by 90 degrees. The sofa, chairs and coffee table all in the unmistakable aesthetic of the 1990s climbed the wall. The carpet became vertical. Cabinets hovered near the floor alongside a CD rack, baseball badges and a flag bearing a slogan in Sutterlin script: Beware of storm and wind and East Germans who are enraged.
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fromArtforum
1 week ago
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Henrike Naumann, Set to Represent Germany at the Venice Biennale, Dies at 41

Henrike Naumann, an installation artist who used household objects to interrogate German reunification and political aesthetics, died in Berlin at forty-one on February 14.
fromArtnet News
1 week ago
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Artist Henrike Naumann Has Died

Henrike Naumann, a German installation artist who examined East German history and rising far-right populism through domestic objects, died at 41 from cancer.
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