Elke Finkenauer
Elke Finkenauer
Elke Finkenauer‘s work is motivated by incongruities within social, professional and data-driven structures and the ways people navigate them.
These structures have included dating apps, work environments, social situations and financial markets. Her making process is iterative, driven by thought experiments, improvisation with materials and techniques, and a keen sense of the ludicrous. An underlying premise is the idea that questions contain implicit answers. If something’s not working, ask a different question (to change an outcome, change the process). The results of this practice have been displayed as bead curtains, handmade datasets, soft-drawings, micro-narratives and un-nameable objects.
Elke Finkenauer (of New Zealand/German descent) lives and works in Glasgow. She has a Master of Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art (2015) and a Bachelor of Business Studies from AUT, New Zealand. In 2022 Finkenauer has received awards from the Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals, and Glasgow Visual Artist and Craft Maker Bursary, and was selected to participate in Creative Informatics: Creative Horizons 4, exhibited at Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh (2022). Other awards include the Hospitalfield Summer Residency (2018) and Glasgow Art and Craft Maker Award (2018/19). Exhibitions include ‘Members Club’ at Gus Fisher Gallery (2019); ‘Something to Remember’ at Gus Fisher Gallery and The Suter Art Gallery (2018/2019); and Saturday Safari at Glasgow Project Room (2017). An excerpt from her text work ‘People like you and me’ was included in ‘Quality Sleep Harmony Life!’ at the Edinburgh Art Festival (2019).
Images
1. Doing Data: Experiment 2, 2022
Installed at Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh
Photo credit: Chris Scott
2. Doing Data: Experiment 7, 2022
Installed at Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh
Photo credit: Chris Scott
3. Doing Data: Experiment 15, 2022
Installed at Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh
Photo credit: Chris Scott
4. Liver Box from Nervous Systems, 2022
Photo credit: Isobel Lutz-Smith
5. Priscilla (75) & friends, 2018