Artist

Karin Sander

b. 1957, Bensberg, Germany · Based in Berlin and Zurich, Switzerland

State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Conceptual Sculpture
Installation
Intervention
Photography

Karin Sander is a pioneering conceptual artist whose minimal interventions, 3D body scans, and site-responsive transformations reveal latent architectural and institutional structures. Famous for works such as 'Polished Wall Pieces' (sections of drywall buffed to mirror finishes), 'Mailed Paintings' (blank canvases shipped without packaging, absorbing the postal journey's grime), and 3D mini-sculptures of gallery visitors, Sander questions authorship, exhibition etiquette, and the readymade.

Gallery Representation

Artist Films

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Karin Sander: The Brutality of Walls
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Museums & Public Collections

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