Kerstin Wagener's Page

Website

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

"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

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