Kerstin Brätsch (born 1979) is a German contemporary visual artist. She is primarily known as a painter, also making work collaboratively as DAS INSTITUT (with artist Adele Röder)[1] and KAYA (with artist Debo Eilers).[2] She currently lives and works in New York City.[3]
Kerstin Brätsch | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1979 |
| Known for | Painter |
Early life and education
editBrätsch was born in 1979 [4] in Hamburg, Germany.[3] She received a masters degree in Fine Arts from Columbia University in New York City.[3]
Career
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Brätsch is a painter, who often creates large-scale, highly abstract works that combine multiple medias.[2] Though Brätsch's abstract works might visually call to mind artists such as Vasilly Kandinsky, she bucks against tradition in the unusual display of her works. For instance, her paintings have been hung by magnets, draped, and framed in between sheets of glass and then leaned against the wall, which combines an element of exhibition display and performance to her artistic practice.[5]
Brätsch is also known for working quickly and producing large quantities of work.[2] In 2007 Brätsch formed DAS INSTITUT with fellow artist Adele Röder.[1] Using a traditional import and export agency as a model, DAS INSTITUT seeks to examine how images are disseminated, exchanged, and produced in today's world.[1] These collaborations often produce work that combines Brätsch's paintings with Röder's digital projections, posters, and advertisements.[5] Though Brätsch and Röder are the primary artists involved, DAS INSTITUT also collaborates with other artists.[5]
Her other frequent collaborator is sculptor Debo Eilers, with whom she makes work as KAYA. This alter-ego is "an ongoing project with their muse and collaborator Kaya, a teen girl who is the daughter of one of Eilers's childhood friends from Texas. Brätsch and Eilers have been working with Kaya since she was 14, in the process encouraging her to develop as an artist herself.[2]
In 2024, Brätsch was among the 18 artists selected by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to create installations for John F. Kennedy International Airport’s new Terminal 6, set to open in 2026.[6]
Recognition
editIn 2014, Brätsch was awarded the August Macke Prize.[7]
In 2017, Brätsch was awarded the second edition of the Edvard Munch Art Award, which constituted a cash prize and a solo exhibition at the Munch Museum in 2019.[8]
Art market
editBrätsch has been represented by Gladstone Gallery since 2020.[9] She is also represented by Gió Marconi, Milan,[10] and she previously worked with Gavin Brown's Enterprise.[3]
Major exhibitions
edit- D I WHY? at the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York (19 September 2009 - 31 October 2009)[11]
- The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World at the Museum of Modern Art (6 December 2014 - 5 April 2015)[12]
- NO MAN'S LAND at the Rubell Family Collection (2 December 2015 - 28 May 2016)[13]
- DAS INSTITUT at the Serpentine Galleries (3 March 2016 - 15 May 2016)[14]
- Kerstin Brätsch: Innovation at Museum Brandhorst (25 May 2017 - 17 September 2017)[15]
- Die Sein: Para Psychics at Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (24 September 2022 - 26 February 2023)[16]
Public collections
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Francesco, Garutti (22 July 2011). "Das Institut". Domus. Archived from the original on 17 December 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ a b c d Blagojevi, Boko (9 December 2015). "Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers". Art in America. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Artists: Kerstin Brätsch". Gavin Brown's Enterprise. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "Artists: Kerstin Brätsch". Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 18 April 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ a b c Meade, Fionn (May 2010). "Kerstin Brätsch, Parkett". Cargo Collective. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ Hilarie M. Sheets (16 July 2024), Move Over, La Guardia and Newark: 18 Artists to Star at New J.F.K. Terminal New York Times.
- ^ "Kerstin Brätsch hat vom Hochsauerlandkreis den August-Macke-Preis 2014 Erhalten" [Kerstin Brätsch received the August Macke Prize 2014 from the Hochsauerlandkreis.]. August Macke Prize (in German). 2014. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ Samaha, Barry (15 November 2017). "Kerstin Brätsch Garners the Edvard Munch Art Award 2017". Forbes. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ Farago, Jason (21 July 2020). "Gavin Brown Closes His Gallery and Joins Forces With Barbara Gladstone". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 24 November 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "KerstinBRÄTSCH | GióMARCONI". www.giomarconi.com. Retrieved 2024-06-30.
- ^ "Das Institut". Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York. 2009. Archived from the original on 10 December 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ "The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World". Museum of Modern Art. 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ "About the Exhibition: NO MAN'S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection". Rubell Museum. 2015. Archived from the original on 1 December 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "DAS INSTITUT". Serpentine Galleries. 2016. Archived from the original on 25 September 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ "Kerstin Brätsch. Innovation". Museum Brandhorst. 2017. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Die Sein: Para Psychics". Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (in German). 24 September 2022. Archived from the original on 26 September 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2022.