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Korfmann aims to capture the memory of a place in designing a literal image of time. The essence of both is the background, the flat surface to which she refers as 'space zero', on which she groups the different fragments of memory captured by the camera. This way, the originally two dimensional surface has become a new, more or less virtual space. Even though the works to be seen in the show Count for Nothing originated at totally different locations on the globe, people do not look that different when seen from above. Only at a closer look, different cultures and rituals will become visible; such as products being carried on the head in the photo from Luanda (Angola). Also the black dresses of the women in Teheran relate to the Academic robes worn by the graduate students of the University of Cambridge.


Count for Nothing Anton de Komplein, Amsterdam ultrachrome print size: 267 x 489 cm 105” x 193 " year: 2018
Count for Nothing Installation view Anton de Komplein
Count for Nothing Installation view Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin
Count for Nothing De Dam ultra chrome print size: 120 x 173 cm 47"x 68" year: 2016
Count for Nothing Running with the Bulls (2 x 12 min), Pamplona ultrachrome print size: 145 x 100 cm 57” x 39 " year: 2012
Count for Nothing What we Believe In Ajax (48 min), Amsterdam ultrachrome print size: 145 x 100 cm 57” x 39 " year: 2010
Count for Nothing Vrindavan (41 Min) ultrachrome print size: 145 x 100 cm 57” x 39 " year: 2012
Count for Nothing Nickel´s eye (27 min), Luanda ultrachrome print size: 145 x 100 cm 57” x 39 " year: 2009
Count for Nothing Waiting for Atousa (1h), Tehran ultrachrome print size: 145 x 100 cm 57” x 39 " year: 2009
Count for Nothing King´s College (7,5h 2d), Cambridge ultrachrome print size: 145 x 100 cm 57” x 39 " year: 2009
Count for Nothing Waiting for Julia (3x10 min), Berlin ultrachrome print size: 145 x 100 cm 57” x 39" year: 2008
Count for Nothing Madison Boogie Woogie (64 min) New York ultrachrome print size: 145 x 100 cm 57" x 39" year: 2010
Count for Nothing Fast Forward, Checkpoint Charlie (1,8h) Berlin ultrachrome print size: 144 x 252 cm year: 2008
Count for Nothing Dom Antao (25 min), Lisbon ultrachrome print size: 145 x 93 cm 57” x 39" year: 2009
Count for Nothing Frank´s Office (the German Window, 40 min), Hong Kong ultrachrome print size: 145 x 108 cm 57” x 39" year: 2009
Count for Nothing Chaharrah Sadi (24 min), Tehran ultrachrome print size: 145 x 100 cm 57” x 39" year: 2010
Count for Nothing Shanghai (46 Min) ultrachrome print size: 145 x 100 cm 57” x 39 " year: 2013
Count for Nothing Installation view Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin
Cobra ultrachrome print size: 120 x 173 cm 68"x 47" year: 2012 In Cobra the technical and visual conventions which Katrin Korfmann brings into play are readressed through a visual as well as conceptual premise, by shifting the documentary and narrative aspects of photography and, in so doing, questioning its role as a witness of truth. What at first sight seems to be a precisely painted abstract image turns out upon closer scrutinity to be an ice skating ring photographed from above. What looked like paint strokes turn out to be scratches and piles of snow which are formed by the tracks that skaters have left behind. The title of the work refers to the CoBrA movement and the visual language associated with those artists as well as to the actual cobra snake, which underlines this challenging multi layered readability in the image.
Xiamen ultra chrome print size: 120 x 173 cm 47" x 68" year: 2016
Boardwalk Boardwalk, Santa Cruz ultrachrome print size: 145 x 100 cm 57" x 39" year: 2016


Korfmann aims to capture the memory of a place in designing a literal image of time. The essence of both is the background, the flat surface to which she refers as 'space zero', on which she groups the different fragments of memory captured by the camera. This way, the originally two dimensional surface has become a new, more or less virtual space. Even though the works to be seen in the show Count for Nothing originated at totally different locations on the globe, people do not look that different when seen from above. Only at a closer look, different cultures and rituals will become visible; such as products being carried on the head in the photo from Luanda (Angola). Also the black dresses of the women in Teheran relate to the Academic robes worn by the graduate students of the University of Cambridge.