Showing posts with label exhibition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exhibition. Show all posts

Sunday, January 26, 2020

Sight Unseen Kim Bartelt x Yellownose x Baldon




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Two Berlin Artists, On View at a Café Where Brunch Meets Brutalism

The definition of gallery keeps expanding, and perhaps our favorite new entry is the mezzanine of the year-old café Baldon, located inside architect Arno Brandlhuber’s terraced, brutalist Lobe Block building in the Wedding neighborhood of Berlin. On view until the end of the month is a show that combines two artists of recent interest — Kim Bartelt, whose home and studio we featured here earlier this fall, and Yellow Nose, a Berlin-based studio founded in 2017 by two Taiwanese architects, Hsin-Ying Ho and Kai-Ming Tung. Bartelt’s works — which depict abstract shapes made from tissue papers that Bartelt sources or saves from everyday occasions — match nicely with the elemental furniture by Yellow Nose, a sextet of chairs and benches with Juddian proportions, a subdued color palette, and unexpected drawers and compartments in which to hold ceramic tableware pieces, also by Yellow Nose — a nice tie-in to the dining scenario below.
PHOTOS BY MARINA DENISOVA

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Baldon exhibition Press text

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.

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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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

GIFC

On May 9th GIFC has been held in Berlin fro the first time. This is an event which is being organised by Zero Zero Gallery, LA. They want to give everyone the possibility to purchase an original artwork and ask their gallery artists, and many other artists to submit small works which are being sold for little money. It is a travelling exhibition and has had many stops all over the world already. Have a look here.
And here you can see more of Zero Zero Gallery in Los Angeles.

I had made 6 drawings especially for this occasion, and they were gone in minutes. Very happy that they have found wonderful new homes.





Sunday, March 17, 2019

Amélie

Since june last year I'm showing works at Amélie Maison d'Art in Paris, France.
Amélie du Chalard has a beautifully curated space in the 9th Arrondissement in Paris where she hangs art in a 'home like' setting in an ancient two story townhouse with beautiful furniture and design pieces.
You can read an article about her gallery here Milkdecoration
and see my works when following this link Amelie Paris






Friday, November 2, 2018

Exhibition in London October 25-31


A small work I made this summer in Ibiza has been included in a group show in London Shoreditch this October.
See more of @warblingcollective






Foto 3 by Warbling Collective













Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Anonymous Drawings

Happy to share that my drawing has been selected for the ‚Anonymous Drawings’ exhibition.

How are our judgements about art affected by our knowledge of the artist’s name and background? How is the value of a drawing determined? Where is the border between art and non-art?

The ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS 2018 exhibition features 600 drawings by 600 anonymous international artists presented with no mention of authorship or title and offered for sale at a symbolic price of € 200. The identity of the artist is revealed only after the work is sold. The project began with an international open call for drawing submissions. No guidelines were given specifying content; the only requirement was that the drawings be no bigger than A3. The background, age, or gender of participants played no role in the final selection of works. From over 2000 drawings submitted, the final 600 were selected by Berlin artist and project founder Anke Becker in cooperation with artist duo Reinert/Hinsberg to create a collective art piece.

ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS is both conceptual art and exhibition project in one where individual works from everyone involved become part of a larger wall installation in which hierarchies are entirely absent.

SALES DATES: Every Wednesday and Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m., 
as well as during the opening event and online from July 17: www.anonyme-zeichner.de




Monday, March 14, 2016

catalog text


Here's the catalog text of my last exhibition. My english translation and the original text in german below.

Kim Bartelts series with the title ‘A Fleur de Peau’ consists of small works on paper as well as big to middle formats on canvas. With these new works Kim Bartelt remained true to her minimalistic approach. Tightly connected to her last big work cycle ‘Wide Nights’ these images continue to work with layers and with the distinction between that which is near, and that which is distant, between that which lies upon and that which lies underneath, between fragmentation and completeness.
From tissue papers which the artist collected over 2 decades she creates mostly rectangular shapes which are moved and positioned on the canvas until the perfect placement is found. The forms create a dialogue with each other and with the canvas itself.
Her works are defined through a harmonious transcendent lightness, which lets you discover the depth, the torn and the non perfect only when you are close enough. She plays with illusion and actuality in a poetic way.
When placing the papers on the surface they receive dents, cuts and signs of usage. Like wrinkles on delicate skin. Skin is translucent, transparent and can be easily hurt.
Through the chosen materials another layer is being added to her works. Acrylic paint covers up, it hides what is underneath; the tissue papers are transparent, they show what is beneath them. They reveal more than they hide.

Kim Bartelt’s collected papers are metaphors for the manifoldness of life. They speak about the transience of the moment and the cycles of life with its coming and going.

Kim Bartelts neue Ausstellung mit dem Titel ‘à fleur de peau’ besteht aus kleineren Arbeiten auf Papier, sowie grossen bis mittleren Formaten auf Leinwand. Mit diesen Werken ist Kim Bartelt ihrer minimalistischen Arbeitsweise treu geblieben. Anknüpfend an ihren letzten großen Werkzyklus ‘Wide Nights’ spielen auch diese in Schichten aufgebauten Bilder mit der Wahrnehmung zwischen Distanz und Nähe, Oberfläche und Tiefe, Fragmentation und Vollkommenheit.
Aus über zwei Jahrzehnten gesammelten Seidenpapieren lässt die Künstlerin geometrische, leicht ungerade, oft rechteckige Formen entstehen. Dabei ist nicht die Perfektion maßgeblich, sondern der Dialog zwischen Leinwand und der Positionierung der geometrischen Formen untereinander. 
Ihre Werke zeichnen sich durch eine harmonische transzendente Leichtigkeit aus, die erst beim näheren Hinsehen das Tiefe, Zerrissene, nicht Perfekte erkennen lassen. Auch hier wird mit dem Vermeintlichen und dem Tatsächlichen auf eine poetische Weise umgegangen.
Beim Aufbringen des Papiers entstehen kleine Dellen, Risse, Zeichen von Abnutzung. Wie Falten auf dünner, zarter Haut. Sie ist durchscheinend, transparent und kann leicht kaputt gehen. 
Mit den Materialien integriert die Künstlerin eine weitere Facette in Ihren Kunstwerken. Farben verdecken, sie übermalen. Seidenpapiere dagegen sind durchlässig, zeigen was darunter ist, werden leicht porös. Sie enthüllen mehr, als das sie verstecken. 
Ihre über die Jahre gesammelten Papiere sind Metaphern der Mannigfaltigkeit des Lebens. Sie sprechen von der Vergänglichkeit des Augenblicks und den Zyklen des Lebens mit ihrem Kommen und Gehen.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

exhibition at stiftung starke

I will have one piece in the christmas exhibition at Stiftung Starke. This is it: Westhafen, created this month. Bad lighting unfortunately, I will have to take good pictures next week.