CONSTELLATIONS OF SPACE
Kim Bartelt x Yellow Nose Studio
Organic materiality, meticulous handcraft and a subdued palette align the practices of artist Kim Bartelt and designer-artisan duo Yellow Nose Studio, whose works come together in a considered assemblage at Baldon Berlin,
situated in Arno Brandlhuber’s brutalist Lobe Block in Berlin-Wedding.
Five works from Bartelt’s latest series, Raw, line the walls of Baldon’s mezzanine space. Their canvases provide backdrops for investigations of form,
which manifest in abstract shapes composed of found and residual tissue
papers the artist saves from everyday occasions, such as the purchase of
flowers or wrapping from a Paris boutique. Minimal yet imbued with a quiet energy, Bartelt’s paper paintings transmit the meditative quality of her painstaking process of pasting and embedding. The idiosyncrasies of each sheet of tissue—creases, folds, a raw edge here or there—allude to their past applications. Only up close does their layered fragility reveal itself.
Placed in dialogue with selections from the Raw series are the six furniture pieces that comprise Yellow Nose Studio’s entirely handmade N-02 collection. Their pagoda box-inspired compartments hold within them the ceramic tableware pieces that complete the collection’s tea session concept. Demarcating the border of the mezzanine, their presence sets the scene for the
exhibition’s centrepiece: N-03 [double], an installation exploring how memory and identity fluctuate as space and time expand. Brought to life by a performance during the vernissage, N-03’s double sliding seat is accompanied by
ceramics whose positions shift constantly, reflecting the increasing distance between past and future. For the duration of the show, N-03 will remain as an interactive installation—inviting visitors to sit, linger, and spend an unhurried moment amidst this harmonious constellation.
Kim Bartelt x Yellow Nose Studio
Organic materiality, meticulous handcraft and a subdued palette align the practices of artist Kim Bartelt and designer-artisan duo Yellow Nose Studio, whose works come together in a considered assemblage at Baldon Berlin,
situated in Arno Brandlhuber’s brutalist Lobe Block in Berlin-Wedding.
Five works from Bartelt’s latest series, Raw, line the walls of Baldon’s mezzanine space. Their canvases provide backdrops for investigations of form,
which manifest in abstract shapes composed of found and residual tissue
papers the artist saves from everyday occasions, such as the purchase of
flowers or wrapping from a Paris boutique. Minimal yet imbued with a quiet energy, Bartelt’s paper paintings transmit the meditative quality of her painstaking process of pasting and embedding. The idiosyncrasies of each sheet of tissue—creases, folds, a raw edge here or there—allude to their past applications. Only up close does their layered fragility reveal itself.
Placed in dialogue with selections from the Raw series are the six furniture pieces that comprise Yellow Nose Studio’s entirely handmade N-02 collection. Their pagoda box-inspired compartments hold within them the ceramic tableware pieces that complete the collection’s tea session concept. Demarcating the border of the mezzanine, their presence sets the scene for the
exhibition’s centrepiece: N-03 [double], an installation exploring how memory and identity fluctuate as space and time expand. Brought to life by a performance during the vernissage, N-03’s double sliding seat is accompanied by
ceramics whose positions shift constantly, reflecting the increasing distance between past and future. For the duration of the show, N-03 will remain as an interactive installation—inviting visitors to sit, linger, and spend an unhurried moment amidst this harmonious constellation.
ABOUT US
ABOUT KIM BARTELT
Kim Bartelt does not paint surfaces—she paints with surfaces. The Berlin- based artist completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in New York, and has since regularly exhibited in group and solo shows in Chicago, Berlin, Paris, and London. Bartelt’s decision to abandon liquid paint in favour of two-dimensional elements could be interpreted as an investigation of painting as an object. But it goes further than that. Her works carry a predetermined aspect over which she has no control—the paper cuttings of each piece are in fact a residue; a remainder. In 2019, Bartelt was artist in residence at Numeroventi in Florence, Italy and at Joya in Almeria, Spain. Her work is held in private collections across Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, UK, Israel, India, Brazil and the USA.
ABOUT YELLOW NOSE STUDIO
Yellow Nose is a Berlin-based studio founded in 2017 by Hsin-Ying Ho and Kai-Ming Tung—a Taiwanese duo with backgrounds in architecture. The pair are constantly on a quest to find the perfect balance within space through handmade objects. Following a desire to create using raw materials in unforeseen ways, they craft with the organic to present items that are usually inorganic, display their logic through emotional processes, and ultimately propel
their craft forward through waves of industrial design. Yellow Nose Studio endeavours to represent slow living through living tools for savouring the spaces we live in and walk through from day to day. - Text by Maggie SY Ho
ABOUT BALDON
A brutalist space turned into a versatile oasis in Arno Brandlhuber’s Lobe Block, Baldon is a restaurant and platform for creative experiences run by Jessica-Joyce Sidon and Caecilia Baldszus.
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Anna Dorothea Ker
LIST OF WORKS
Kim Bartelt
BFF (2019) Paper on raw linen, 100 x 100cm
Tibetan Tiger (2019) Paper & acrylics on linen, 135 x 175 cm
Weirdo (2019) Paper on raw linen, 100 x 80 cmA Friend (2019) paper on canvas from Shenzhen, 61 x 51 cm
Grey on White (2019) paper on canvas from Shenzhen, 60 x 50 cm
Yellow Nose Studio N-02
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