Revolutionary Archive, 1973–ongoing
Photographs, films, collages, montages, installations
Mixed media / dimensions variable
With Magdalena Kopp (*1948–†2015)

The material for this group of works comes from an extensive police archive with films and negatives from the years 1973–85. It shows images of political disturbances, terrorist attacks, demonstrations, people being evicted from houses and bank raids. The archive was evaluated and the prints produced in close collaboration with Magdalena Kopp, a trained photographer. In the above-mentioned period of time, Kopp was an active member of Revolutionäre Zellen (Revolutionary Cells) and married to a terrorist, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, commonly known as Carlos. He and Kopp separated, she served several years in prison in France and has been a free woman since 1994.

Films
Installation with 6 screenings
Loop, dimensions variable
Big Picture, K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf, 2011

Black and White Photographs
Silver gelatine on baryta paper
11.81 x 17.72 to 51,6 x 111,1 inch
30 x 40 cm to 130 x 280 cm

Color Photographs
Lambda prints on photo paper
11.81 x 17.72 inch to 51,6 x 111,1
30 x 40 cm to 130 x 280 cm

Collages
B/w photographs mounted on paper
8.27 x 15.75 / 9.84 x 19.29 /
12.99 x 19.29 / 12.99 x 30.7 inch
21 x 40 / 25 x 49 /
33 x 49 / 33 x 78 cm

Montages
B/w photographs mounted on paper
8.27 x 16.54 inch
21 x 42 cm each

Film Stills
Lambda prints on photo paper
25.59 x 31.5 to 49.21 x 78.74 inch
65 x 80 cm to 125 x 200 cm

Unter Beobachtung. Feuilleton Süddeutsche Zeitung, cover story by Annette Ramelsberger. Munich, November 7, 2015