Kim Dotty Hachmann deals with family related
topics including the current sociopolitical
approach to families as well as her very own
emotions towards her family life. Thus Kim
Dotty Hachmann works with the public dis-
cussion with reference to education, the
Pisa study, patchwork families and daycare
centers as well as personal questions related
to her family.
Kim Dotty visually presents her family in short
videos, video installations and photo series in
order to exploit the complexity of visual, tem-
poral and acoustic aspects. Thus fantastic
stories depict the opposites of individuality and
community, intimacy and borders, power and
weakness in a humorous, poetic and some-
times grotesque way. Kim Dotty Hachmann
mostly makes use of her own fantasy worlds
to express her ideas.
It’s a conscious choice that she and her family
act in her productions.
Kim Dotty Hachmann sees herself as a modern
day storyteller.