Paradise with a Question Mark

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“Erika Kassnel-Henneberg, born in 1973, trained as a gilder, designer, media artist, and winner of the Augsburg district art prize in 2022, often uses artificial intelligence in her work, sometimes creating eerie, sometimes quite disturbing results. (…)

(…) Depending on how strictly one interprets the Bible, some people may well take issue with who is associated with the Holy Family (which we will encounter more often in its classic iconography during Advent at the latest) and in what role. Erika Kassnel-Henneberg has used the AI mentioned above to create various identities, all of which revolve around the central element, a golden apple (remember: gilder!).” Paradies mit Fragezeichen” in: A3Kultur by Manuel Schedl

Discomfort in the Höhmannhaus

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“(…) Erika Kassnel-Henneberg (…) raises a number of deliberately open questions on the basis of seven videos and several Polaroid photos. If one faces these questions, thoughtfulness, even unease fills the rooms.(…)” Rüdiger Heinze, Künstliche Intelligenz: Unbehagen im Höhmannhaus, Augsburger Allgemeine vom 16.02.2023

“(…)Can and may we bring people back to life through old photographs? Can we enjoy portraits of people who never existed? And do we still need people at all to perform human acts?

Erika Kassnel-Henneberg’s works do not provide answers, but they ask the right questions. (…)” Manuel Schedl, Nicht-Existenzen, A3 Kultur vom 13.02.2023

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