3D scan of the Herðubreið (1992) by Stefán V. Jónsson (Stórval), 01.03.2026, 2026
Polychrome 3-D print of the painting, plaster material, color pigment ink
24,8 x 26,5 x 2 cm

Photo © Vigfús Birgisson

3D scan of the Grindelwaldgletscher (1912) by Ferdinand Hodler from 09.09.2023, 2023
Polychrome 3-D print of the painting, plaster material, color pigment ink
28,54 x 25,00 x 3,12 cm
Photo © Markus Worgötter

3D scan of Błędne koło (Teufelskreis) (1895-1897) by Jacek Malczewski from 16.09.2024, 2024
Polychrome 3-D print of the painting, plaster material, color pigment ink
33,73 x 25,00 x 3,43 cm
Photo © Martin Lauffer

3D Paintings

2023-

The 3D Paintings are part of an ongoing series of polychrome 3D prints of paintings (e.g. by Ferdinand Hodler, Stefán V. Jónsson (Stórval) or Jacek Malczewski, to be continued...).

"Karin Sander translates the historical painting back into the three-dimensionality of its/a depicted reality, albeit into a different medium again. Back-translation, which anyway cannot possibly be identical with the original, hence – so Walter Benjamin’s Aufgabe des Übersetzers [The Translator’s Task] – takes linguistic singularity all the more into account. In Sander, it plays specifically with the complex complicity between the two- and three-dimensionality of artistic languages."

Text: Krassimira Kruschkova

Presented in exhibitions

Reykjavík Art Museum Hafnarhús, 2026
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, 2023
Polnisches Institut, Berlin, 2024