Kerstin Brätsch

Brätsch was born in 1979 {{Cite web |title=Artists: Kerstin Brätsch |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/38908 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418013919/https://www.moma.org/artists/38908 |archive-date=18 April 2024 |access-date=6 March 2016 |website=Museum of Modern Art}} in Hamburg, Germany. She received a masters degree in Fine Arts from Columbia University in New York City.

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Brätsch is a painter, who often creates large-scale, highly abstract works that combine multiple medias. 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.{{Cite web |last=Meade |first=Fionn |date=May 2010 |title=Kerstin Brätsch, Parkett |url=http://cargocollective.com/fionnmeade/Kerstin-Bratsch-Parkett |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510085646/http://cargocollective.com/fionnmeade/Kerstin-Bratsch-Parkett |archive-date=10 May 2017 |access-date=6 March 2016 |website=Cargo Collective}}

Brätsch is also known for working quickly and producing large quantities of work. In 2007 Brätsch formed DAS INSTITUT with fellow artist Adele Röder. 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. These collaborations often produce work that combines Brätsch's paintings with Röder's digital projections, posters, and advertisements. Though Brätsch and Röder are the primary artists involved, DAS INSTITUT also collaborates with other artists.

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.

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.Hilarie M. Sheets (16 July 2024), [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/arts/design/artists-commissioned-jfk-airport.html Move Over, La Guardia and Newark: 18 Artists to Star at New J.F.K. Terminal] New York Times.

In 2014, Brätsch was awarded the August Macke Prize.{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Kerstin Brätsch hat vom Hochsauerlandkreis den August-Macke-Preis 2014 Erhalten |trans-title=Kerstin Brätsch received the August Macke Prize 2014 from the Hochsauerlandkreis. |url=http://www.august-macke-preis.info/kerstin-br%C3%A4tsch-2014.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201045815/http://www.august-macke-preis.info/kerstin-br%C3%A4tsch-2014.html |archive-date=1 December 2017 |access-date=6 March 2016 |website=August Macke Prize |language=de}}

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.{{Cite web |last=Samaha |first=Barry |date=15 November 2017 |title=Kerstin Brätsch Garners the Edvard Munch Art Award 2017 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrysamaha/2017/11/15/kerstin-bratsch-wins-the-munch-museums-edvard-munch-art-award-2017/#416f70cd43d4 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314153139/https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrysamaha/2017/11/15/kerstin-bratsch-wins-the-munch-museums-edvard-munch-art-award-2017/?sh=3acea7d143d4 |archive-date=14 March 2022 |access-date=28 November 2017 |website=Forbes}}

Brätsch has been represented by Gladstone Gallery since 2020.{{Cite news |last=Farago |first=Jason |date=21 July 2020 |title=Gavin Brown Closes His Gallery and Joins Forces With Barbara Gladstone |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/arts/gavin-brown-barbara-gladstone-gallery.html |url-access=registration |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211124153241/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/arts/gavin-brown-barbara-gladstone-gallery.html |archive-date=24 November 2021 |access-date=17 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} She is also represented by Gió Marconi, Milan,{{Cite web |title=KerstinBRÄTSCH {{!}} GióMARCONI |url=https://www.giomarconi.com/en/artist/kerstin-brtsch |access-date=2024-06-30 |website=www.giomarconi.com}} and she previously worked with Gavin Brown's Enterprise.

• D I WHY? at the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York (19 September 2009 - 31 October 2009){{Cite web |date=2009 |title=Das Institut |url=https://www.swissinstitute.net/exhibition/das-institut/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210005540/https://www.swissinstitute.net/exhibition/das-institut/ |archive-date=10 December 2023 |access-date=6 March 2016 |website=Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York |language=en-US}}
• The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World at the Museum of Modern Art (6 December 2014 - 5 April 2015){{Cite web |date=2014 |title=The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1455 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923224119/https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1455 |archive-date=23 September 2023 |access-date=6 March 2016 |website=Museum of Modern Art}}
• NO MAN'S LAND at the Rubell Family Collection (2 December 2015 - 28 May 2016){{Cite web |date=2015 |title=About the Exhibition: NO MAN'S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection |url=https://rubellmuseum.org/no-mans-land |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201092239/https://rubellmuseum.org/no-mans-land |archive-date=1 December 2023 |access-date=17 April 2024 |website=Rubell Museum}}
• DAS INSTITUT at the Serpentine Galleries (3 March 2016 - 15 May 2016){{Cite web |date=2016 |title=DAS INSTITUT |url=https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/das-institut/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925105721/https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/das-institut/ |archive-date=25 September 2023 |access-date=6 March 2016 |website=Serpentine Galleries |language=en-GB}}
• Kerstin Brätsch: Innovation at Museum Brandhorst (25 May 2017 - 17 September 2017){{Cite web |date=2017 |title=Kerstin Brätsch. Innovation |url=https://www.museum-brandhorst.de/en/exhibitions/kerstin-bratsch-innovation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526041817/https://www.museum-brandhorst.de/en/exhibitions/kerstin-bratsch-innovation/ |archive-date=26 May 2022 |access-date=17 April 2024 |website=Museum Brandhorst |language=en}}
• Die Sein: Para Psychics at Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (24 September 2022 - 26 February 2023){{Cite web |date=24 September 2022 |title=Die Sein: Para Psychics |url=https://ludwigforum.de/event/die-sein-para-psychics/2022-09-24/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926051808/https://ludwigforum.de/event/die-sein-para-psychics/2022-09-24/ |archive-date=26 September 2023 |access-date=13 December 2022 |website=Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst |language=de}}
• MƎTAATEM at Munch Museum (14 March 2025 - 03 August 2025){{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Kerstin Brätsch: MƎTAATEM |url=https://artmap.com/munchmuseet/exhibition/kerstin-braetsch-2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250426080807/https://artmap.com/munchmuseet/exhibition/kerstin-braetsch-2025 |archive-date=26 April 2025 |access-date=9 June 2025 |website=Art Map |language=en}}

• Museum of Modern Art

• List of German women artists

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