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Website: http://www.kerstinwagener.de

College / University: akedemy of fine arts, Karlsruhe, Germany

Member type: Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Conceptual, Digital, Drawing, Installation, Painting, Performance, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture

I am...: an artist from Berlin
1991 - 1997 Fine Arts at the academy of fine arts Karlsruhe, by Max Kaminski
1999 - 2005 Media Art at the Hfg Karlsruhe by Lois Renner
2006 Founding of the artists network PlanW (www.planw.net)

Shows (selection)

---2008
"berliner Kunstsalon" soloshow featured by Galerie Gerken
"Ostrale" Dresden
"Le revolver à cheveux blancs", le Museé de l´Objét, Blois, France curated by Aurélie Voltz
"You can never go home again", Raab Galerie, Berlin / Found Gallery LA
"nothing to declare", With Nathan Coley, Myriam Thyes, The Atlas Group, Martin Damann, Chantal Michel. Trienale Oberschwaben, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
"Kerstin Wagener - home song", Galerie Gerken, Berlin
"Release und Kunst", Release Stuttgat

---2007
"just drawing" (drawings a.d.S. machofighter), HSH Hamburg
Gallery Christoffer Egelund, Kopenhagen
Tease Artfair, Köln
Berliner Kunstsalon, ArtFair, Plan W, Berlin

--- 2006
"just foto" (Museumsbilder), HSH Hamburg
"die erste Runde – auf’s Haus" (hybrid painting), Fahrzeughalle Berlin
"3. Berliner Kunstsalon", Plan W, Berlin
"wir hätten das Land gern weit und rund und Sie", Showroom Berlin
"Independent Biennale Liverpool" (Zeichnungen a.d.S. machofighter)
"German Spirit" (Installation, Objekt, machofighter), Gallery Airgarten, Berlin

--- 2005
"können Bilder lügen" (Museumsbilder), IHK Ravensburg
"von Wüsten, Wölfen und wilden Vehikeln", Kunsthalle Mengerzeile, Berlin
"just painting", HSH Hamburg
"Remix" (hybrid painting), Columbus Artfoundation, Ravensburg

--- 2004
"take care" ( Museumbilder, Installation machofighter), Kunsthaus Hamburg
"unplugged" (hybrid painting), Berlin

--- 2003
"polystars" (nomansland, Installation), Kunstverein Karlsruhe
"ich hätt so gern..." (Installation), Schloss Montfort, Langenargen

--- 2002
"videomedeja" (thrib, Video), Yugoslawien
"10 Jahre HfG-Karlsruhe" (Museumsbilder) HfG Karlsruhe

--- 2001
"wro01" (Nochdreisekundenschwarz, Video), Wroczlaw, Polen
"o.T", (videopainting, (computergesteuerte algorithmisch programmierte nicht endende Farb - Systeme), o.T., Sammlung Columbus, Zussdorf
"Performance in interaktiven Systemen" (interaktive Video-Sound Installation), Choreographisches Zentrum NRW
"Mediaforum" (Nochdreisekundenschwarz, Video), Moskow
"Cynetart" (Nochdreisekundenschwarz, Video), Dresden

-- 2000
"Genesis - physical modelling" (Video), ZKM, Karlsruhe
"videomedeja" (Nochdreisekundenschwarz, Video), Yugoslawien
"Leeds international Filmfestival" (Nochdreisekundenschwarz, Video), England
"Cynetart" (keine Panik, weblyrik), Dresden
"steirischer Herbst" (webseitenquartett, interaktive Performence für 1 Dirigenten und 4 Computeruser via Internet), Forum Stadtgarten, Graz (At)

About my artwork: at home singing a song about the world and the world replies with a song about myself

the last years I was working on the idea of getting the personal and the public themes more together. So I started to shoot(!) my home. When I saw the pictures on my computer, frames from somewhere else crossed my mind. from TV, advertising, memory, books....I asked myself what if all those things out there would happen right in my home. So I mounted them together and printed them out on canvas, and started to overpaint them to increase in a way the damage the pictures made, when they came together.
Thinking of this I ended up with the strange feeling of being attacked by an outer world and the need of defence. I built a series of drawing and object, which is called machofighter. (a woman army) So I went more far with this attacks of my home. Now my home was becoming a combat zone. I stroke back with works like „the artists revanche“ but then I got more the feeling of what Nietzsche said: “who fights with monsters, be aware not to become one on itself. And if you look in the abyss long enough, the abyss starts looking back into you“

What exhibitions are good at the moment?: til 16.05.08
"Kerstin Wagener- home song"
Gallery Gerken, Auguststr. 49 Berlin, Germany

The centre of the artworld is: New York, London, Berlin, nowhere and everywhere

what is the red bull doing in my kitchen, 105 cm x 155 cm,
print and acrylic on canvas,
2007

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At 7:43am on 30th October 2008, manoj said…: hi

At 2:23pm on 29th October 2008, Violet Water Dragon Productions said…: invitation to join

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At 6:01pm on 22nd September 2008, Rob Van Beek said…: Congratulations on your nomination.

At 3:03pm on 21st September 2008, manoj said…: hi nice work

At 5:31pm on 18th September 2008, Ekaterina Alexander said…: Hi Kerstin, I have been away from the UK and ArtReview and am now working on a new series, mixing abstraction and city scape photography, love your work and installations, hope you would join me as a friend, Ekaterina

At 1:11am on 14th September 2008, Mark Jon Erickson said…: what is the red bull doing in my kitchen
a wild piece...makes me think of a color war movie that ends in paradise....glad i saw that one, gives flying a whole new feel
thanks
Mark

At 8:55pm on 28th August 2008, mcurate said…: H! Thanks,

Definitely we let you know updates.

Best Regards

At 9:48am on 28th August 2008, Jarik Jongman said…: Hey Kerstin,
thanks for adding me as friend. i really like your hybrid paintings, they work very well.
Jarik