Kasia Klimpel, born in Gliwice (PL) and based in Basel (CH), works as a visual artist with photography and the Internet. She graduated in photography from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (NL) in 2009 and subsequently received her Master in Fine Arts degree from the Institut Kunst in Basel in 2012. She was selected for Plat(t)form 2012 at the Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH). In 2014 she self-published an artist`s book `Still`. She has participated in several exhibitions, among others at GEM, Museum for Contemporary Art in The Hague (NL), Amsterdam Centre of Photography (NL), Haus für elektronische Künste (Basel, CH), Camera Austria (Graz, AU), FeldbuschWiesner Gallery (Berlin, DE) and ´unseen´ photo fair (Amsterdam, NL). Her recent project `The Grand Tour` has been shown at the Mauvoisin Dam, the Fotomuseum Winterthur and is currently exhibited at the Dutch Photography Museum in Rotterdam as part of the Quickscan NL#02 show.
The Grand Tour is a travelogue through the world of maps. Its starting point is an action of submitting fake landscape photographs to Google Maps. Inspired by photo’s found through internet image search of the term ‘horizon´, I have created a series of fake 'Landscapes' made by photographing different layers of paper. These landscapes acquired a specific title describing the fictional exact time, date and coordinates of the place in the world where the photo’s were supposedly taken. Subsequently the photo’s were submitted to Google Map via the gatekeeper of google - the Panoramio – ‘a website where people upload and geolocate photo’s of the world…’. Panoramio has an acceptance policy and does among others not accept images, which are not real. Each photo was submitted to several places all over the world, with different results of acceptance and rejection to Google Maps.
