Sibylle Springer - Distant Mirrors

The paintings of Sibylle Springer (born 1975, lives in Bremen) focus on the role of women in the art world of the digital age. For her portrait series Feed, she has painted 40 female artists to date, based on staged photographs from their Instagram feeds. "Is social media an instrument of emancipation, or does it even lead to new forms of objectification?" (Kohout) In Wait for It, Springer copied pop stars from the internet, but used a silver paint that oxidizes the canvases, thus aging the eternally youthful icons before our eyes— precisely what digital image control seeks to prevent. In her more recent textile objects, Springer interweaves female artists of the past and present. This informative book accompanies her exhibition at the Kunstverein Bremen.

Jessica Fritz (born 1978) lives and works as a freelance curator in Bremen. Julia Voss (born 1974 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German art critic, science historian, and journalist. She was deputy editor of the arts section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and has been an honorary professor at Leuphana University Lü neburg since 2015. Christoph Grunenberg (born in Frankfurt am Main in 1962) is a German art historian and has been director of the Kunsthalle Bremen since November 2011. Annekathrin Kohout (born 1989 in Gera) is a German cultural scientist, author, and editor who works at the intersection of popular culture, digital image culture, and contemporary art. Her research and journalistic work focus on how aesthetic, social, and political dynamics arise and are negotiated in digital platform cultures. Martina von Meltzing works independently as a marketing consultant.