Sandra Köstler is an artist working at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and installation. Her research-based practice explores human-nature relations and is looking for alternatives to anthropocentric views on ecosystems, plants, and landscapes. In critical examination of visual cultures, her work also questions the role of photography as a tool to represent and frame nature.
Each of her projects is grounded in intensive site-specific research and material experimentations. With an expanded approach to the medium of photography, Sandra Köstler uses both her own photographic records and found images as the raw materials for spatial installations, sculptures, and layered forms. By colliding, layering and transforming photographic images, she creates fictional sceneries and speculative arrangements. Those are not meant to preserve but to explore and imagine forms of being with nature.
Sandra Köstler lives and works in the Lake Constance area (DE) and in Taipei (TW). She is represented by Galerie Monica Ruppert.
