In Floating Spaces, we encounter familiar places in urban and natural landscapes that elude our usual accessibility in the works of photographer and video artist Gudrun Kemsa: luxurious shopping streets, ordinary subway stations or the sea. These otherwise familiar places seem strangely alien, unreal and theatrical, exaggeratedly unreal or blurred, softly drawn and nebulous – almost abstract. The artist Gudrun Kemsa sees her photographs and video installations as an aesthetic expansion of everyday perception and thus as an opportunity to rediscover the familiar.
The catalog will be published on the occasion of the exhibitions at Kunsthaus Nürnberg (12.10.2024-2.2.2025), Stadtmuseum Siegburg (26.4.-28.6.2026) and Stadtmuseum Beckum (2026).

The photo and video artist Gudrun Kemsa (*1961) studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Karl Bobek and David Rabinowitch. She has been a professor of “Moving Images and Photography” at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld since 2001. Her artistic work has been recognized with numerous scholarships and awards, including a Villa Massimo scholarship in Rome. Gudrun Kemsa's artistic photographs and video installations are represented in numerous international exhibitions and important collections.