In her first institutional solo exhibition, Nadja Abt takes a critical look at obsessions and the way in which they are still often regarded as an almost pathological prerequisite for making art and are marketed for profit. Using painting, text, objects and a performance, she stages a reflection on the conditions of art-making at the Dortmunder Kunstverein: on the conscious experience, construction and description of creative and thought processes as an artist and their translation into a form of feminist autofictional narrative.
For the exhibition Obsession, Abt created three groups of works in which she reveals her passion for literature, film, advertising graphics, consumption and the works of other artists through painting and diary texts, transfers them into collages and comments on them, reworks and alienates them: as a process of self-editing, in which fiction ultimately outgrows and challenges what is actually experienced.
For the exhibition Obsession, Abt created three groups of works in which she reveals her passion for literature, film, advertising graphics, consumption and the works of other artists through painting and diary texts, transfers them into collages and comments on them, reworks and alienates them: as a process of self-editing, in which fiction ultimately outgrows and challenges what is actually experienced.
