In "Dear Käthe" Claudia Balsters and Hannah Goldstein deal with the biographies and works of prominent artists whom they find inspiring. In a sense of an active appropriation, they produce independent photographic artworks and thus transfer the ideas of others into their own presence.
The careful design of the setting for the photographs - place, object, person and gesture; the construction of installations - are part of the artistic process. Balsters' and Goldstein's associations with artistic models give rise to new works that open up a resonating space and can be understood as the beginning of a conversation.

Dear Hannah (Höch) I, 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Hannah (Höch)II, 40x60, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Käthe (Kollwitz), 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Lotte (Laserstein) I , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Lotte (Laserstein) II , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Installation shot "Dear Lotte (Laserstein)"

Dear Louise (Bourgeois) I, 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Louise (Bourgeois) II, 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Louise (Bourgeois) III, 15x22,5cm, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Ruth (Asawa) I , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Ruth (Asawa) II , 40x60, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Ruth (Asawa) III , 40x60, c-prints and paper collage

Dear Paula (Modersohn ) , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Claude (Cahun) II , 40x60, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Claude (Cahun) I, 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Ana (Mendieta) II , wallpaper, 160x240cm

Dear Ana (Mendieta) I , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Ana (Mendieta) III , 40x60, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Hannah (Wilke) II , 40x50, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Hannah (Wilke) III , 40x50, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Installation detail "Dear Ana (Mendieta)"

Dear Hannah (Wilke) IV , 40x50, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Hannah (Wilke) V , 40x50, Pigmentprint on Archival paper

Dear Hannah (Wilke) I , 70x100, Pigmentprint on Archival paper