Doppler Effect

Images are a medium of communication in both the arts and sciences, whereby the nature and impact of images vary according to their aesthetic and epistemological contexts and functions. The Kunsthalle zu Kiel turned its attention to the role of images in art and science with an exhibition that demonstrated how things become visible through images, things that could not be so easily contemplated otherwise, such as an idea or document, a complex aesthetic expression or the visualization of a scientific theory. The title of the exhibition Doppler Effect refers to the physical phenomenon of the relationship of mutual dependence between the perceived object (image) and the perceiving subject (viewer).
The exhibition presented the history of images spanning six centuries from the early modern age to the present. It featured a number of internationally renowned artists, whose works combine the artistic and scientific worlds of imagination and thought, including commissioned pieces by Christine Borland, Mark Dion, Tue Greenfort and Olaf Nicolai.
The cultural-historic evidence of the Doppler effect of an image - that interrelationship between logic and inspiration, research and imagination - was discussed in an extensive catalogue and lecture series given by well-known scholars in the image, cultural and natural sciences.

Artistic directors: Petra Gördüren, Dirk Luckow
Artists: Christine Borland (GB), Mark Dion (USA), Tue Greenfort (DK), Damian Hirst (GB), Marta de Menezes (PT), Olaf Nicolai, Thomas Ruff and others

Venue and schedule:
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Christian Albrecht University: 31 Jan. - 2 May 2010