Ariane Kipp and Cris Koch

In this catalogue, Ariane Kipp and Cris Koch explore the artistic appropriation of posters from the public sphere. Posters and advertising spaces often lend themselves to direct comment—and frequently also result in the creation of contemporary art. Since 2022, Ariane Kipp has been working intensively on transforming posters from public spaces into sculptures. The artist focuses on the moment at which the original advertising messages are exposed and how these are transformed through the artistic intervention. Cris Koch cuts out elements of advertising posters and recontextualizes them by combining them with other cut-out fragments of posters to create an expanded reality that can be read as a process of (re)appropriation of public space.
INSIDE STREETS is located at the intersection between contemporary art, photography, and literature. On the one hand, it references New Realism, but it can also be categorized as contemporary urban art and takes a highly aesthetic approach to addressing sensitive political issues.