Larissa Fassler

Born in: 1975
From: Vancouver, Canada
Lives and works: Berlin, Germany
Represented by: Galerie Poggi
Website: http://www.larissafassler.com/startside.html

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Biography

For the past 18 years, Larissa Fassler has been creating works of art that document and interrogate the geo-spatial politics of city life. With cartographic paintings and drawings, and architectural sculptures, she creates visualisations of the observable and intangible characteristics of a city, and document the complicated socioeconomic and cultural issues affecting urban space today.

Using processes of mapping and counter-mapping, she employs her own subjective systems to survey public spaces by walking their length and breadth, recording her corporeal experiences and spending hundreds of hours collecting detailed observations onsite as well undertaking archival and online research.

In recent years her work has become increasingly political, charting growing economic disparity, political divisiveness, gender and racialized segregation and violence. While each of her chosen regions, cities, suburbs, public sites is unique, together they reveal a network of intersectional relations that cannot be contained by bureaucracies, borders, or nations.

Career highlights

Solo shows

2021, Galerie Poggi, Paris, France: Ground Control
2020, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, UK: Critical Cartography
2016, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada: Civic Centre
2016, Hessiches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany: DIALOGE 04 Transit: Ströme

Group shows

2024, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany: WALK THIS WAY
2020, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, France: Champs-Élysées, histoire & perspectives
2017, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal: Variable Dimensions - Artists and Architecture