Dagmar Pachtner

“…it is not to give an answer… it is just to have the people get started with something…”

(The artist Dagmar Pachtner, in an interview in 2012 in Breda, the Netherlands at the opening of one of her exhibitions)

Dagmar Pachtner is a conceptual artist.
Art as Concept: working three dimensionally, bringing processes to light and triggering unexpected questions in the viewer.
Dagmar Pachtner, the artist, challenges her audience.
“It takes time and space to work, I have to free myself, I literally have to dig myself free: then something starts to happen. I continue to develop.” This is exactly what she demands of her audience too: she demands that they open themselves to her work, pause, listen, feel.

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„…it is not to give an answer… it is just to have the people get started with something…“
(Die Künstlerin Dagmar Pachtner, im Rahmen eines Interviews 2012 im niederländischen Breda, anlässlich der Eröffnung einer ihrer Ausstellungen).
Dagmar Pachtner ist Konzeptkünstlerin. Kunst als Konzept: Dreidimensionales Arbeiten, Prozesse zeigen, bei Betrachtern unerwartete Fragestellungen auslösen. Dagmar Pachtner, die Künstlerin, fordert ihre Betrachter heraus.
„Es braucht Zeit und Raum um zu arbeiten, ich muss mich befreien, geradezu freischaufeln: dann beginnt etwas. Ich entwickle mich weiter“. Genau das fordert sie auch von ihren Betrachtern: sich einlassen, stehen bleiben, hinhören, spüren.

Dagmar Pachtner

Dagmar Pachtner – Art in public spaces and collections, e.g. in Deutscher Bundestag, numerous exhibitions in Germany and internationally (Japan, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Austria…).
Artist in Residences and awards in Japan and Germany, lives and works in Landshut, Germany.

Dagmar Pachtner`s website

> Exhibition: 25 years Dagmar Pachtner in Landshut, “von hier aus”

Exhibition catalogue September, 2016
>> Excerpt from the original text of the exhibition catalogue (“from here”, 2016), biographical portrait of the artist Dagmar Pachtner, author Heike Rudloff