Kerstin Brätsch
Unstable Talismanic Rendering _HomoSacer (with gratitude to master marbler Dirk Lange)_mobile version
Year: 2021
Material: Silk Scarf
Dimensions: 90 x 90 cm
Edition: 20, signed in print
Price: 119 €, for non-members: 220 €
Over the past fifteen years, the painter Kerstin Brätsch has created an extraordinarily diverse body of work that revolves around painting as a medium and as a historical frame of reference. Her silk scarf for the Dortmunder Kunstverein arises from a series of marbleizations begun in 2013, whose abstract forms open up a variety of associations. One thinks to recognize bodies, faces, but also topographical arrangements or cell systems in them. The marbleizations thus move in a transformative spectrum from micro- to macro-perspective, they allow zooming in and out of the image. At the same time, they have an inherent archaic quality that arises from the basal design possibilities in this technique.
Text: Patrizia Dander
Kerstin Brätsch (*1969 in Hamburg, lives in Berlin, New York) studied with Prof. Lothar Baumgarten at the University of the Arts, Berlin (2001-08) and at Columbia University, New York (2005-07). Her work has been included in numerous solo exhibitions such as LUMA, Arles (2021), MOMA, New York (2019), and Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2017). Together with Debo Eilers (*1974 in Texas) she founded the artist group KAYA, and with Adele Röder she has been working together as DAS INSTITUT since 2007.