Born 1979, Hamburg, Germany

Lives and works in New York

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2011      Not Yet Titled, DAS INSTITUT and United Brothers in collaboration with Nhu Duong and BLACKY, Halle für Kunst,
               Lüneburg, Germany

Not Yet Titled, Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Treat Your Own Neck, DAS INSTITUT, Deste Foundation, Athens

(“Nichts, Nichts!”), Kerstin Brätsch and DAS INSTITUT, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

2010      (“Rien, Rien!”), Kerstin Brätsch and DAS INSTITUT, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues les Eaux, France

BroadwayBrätsch / Corporate Abstraction (as DAS INSTITUT, with Balice Hertling), Statements Art Basel 41, Basel

THUS!_in cooperation with a DAS INSTITUT “My Favorite Artworks As Cakes Baking Workshop” (as DAS INSTITUT),
               NewJerseyy, Basel

KAYA, Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers, 179Canal, New York

2009      BUYBRÄTSCHWÖRST (including DAS INSTITUT and Jane Jo), Balice Hertling, Paris

BUYBRÄTSCHWÖRSTGHOSTS (including DAS INSTITUT), Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart, Germany

D.I.WHY!, DAS INSTITUT, Swiss Institute, New York

           

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2011      Group Show, Balice Hertling & Lewis, New York

ILLUMInations (curated by Bice Curiger), 54^th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

2010      Gwangju Biennale (curated by Massimiliano Gioni), Korea

Greater New York (curated by Klaus Biesenbach), PS1 / Moma, New York

Held Up By Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York

Vertically Integrated Manufacturing (curated by Jacob King), Murray Guy Gallery, New York

After Images (curated by Fionn Meade), Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium

Leopards In The Temple (curated by Fionn Meade), Sculpture Center, New York

And So On, And So On (curated by Matt Sheridan Smith), Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York

The Inhabitants, Vilma Gold, London

Behind the Curtain, Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy

The Pursuer, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2009      Younger than Jesus (curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Lauren Cornell and Laura Hoptman), New Museum, New York

Solaris (curated by Cecilia Alemani), Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy

Besides, With, Against, And Yet - Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture (curated by Debra Singer), The Kitchen, New York

Modernmodern (curated by Pati Hertling), Chelsea Art Museum, New York

Art Berlin Contemporary, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

No Bees, No Blueberries (curated by Sarina Basta and Tyler Coburn), Harris Lieberman, New York

Bridges And Tunnels (curated by Galerie New Jerseyy), Hard Hat, Geneva, Switzerland

Non Solo Show- Non Group Show (curated by Beatrix Ruf), Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Tbilisi6, Tiflis (curated by Daniel Baumann), Performance by DAS INSTITUT (with Ei Arakawa and Tobias Madison, Piggy Banks,                 Samsa Berlin as DAS INSTITUT, Max Hans Daniel) Autocenter, Berlin

2008      Papers Scissors Stone (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini), Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden

Standard Sizes (curated by Joao Ribas), Andrew Kreps, New York

When You See Me Again It Wont Be Me (with Urania Fasoulidou, incl. Performance by Its Our Pleasure To Serve You (Kerstin                       Brätsch, Allison Katz, Adele Röder, Georgia Sagri), Smith Stewart Gallery, New York

“Would You Like Some Coffee?” (as DAS INSTITUT and Its Our Pleasure To Serve You ), The Unfair Fair, Rome

Nichts Ist Aufregend, Nichts Ist Sexy, Nichts Ist Nicht Peinlich (curated by Achim Hochdörfer und Tanja Widmann; Performance by                 Its Our Pleasure To Serve You), Museum für Moderne Kunst Wien, WIen

UOVO Open Office, Art Fair Basel, Basel

YES (curated by Tairone Bastien), AR Contemporary Gallery, Milan, Italy

New Images/Unisex, New Images/Unisex (curated by Blake Rayne), Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami

Hidden Treasure – Objectives of artistic antecedent life, General Public, Berlin

Intimacy, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, New York

FACE FORWARD, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York

Kerstin Brätsch, Tue Greenfort, Jordan Wolfson, Salon 94 Freemans, New York

2007      Exposition Nº 1, Balice Hertling, Paris

Regroup Show, Miguel Abreu, New York

Evas Arche und der Feminist (curated by Pati Hertling), Passerby, New York

Fractured in Aspect, Andrew Kreps, New York

I like to move it, Infernoesque–Infernoesque, Berlin

Beyond the Pale, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2007      MFA, Columbia University, New York

2005      Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Germany

UdK, University for the Arts, Berlin (Meisterschüler of Prof. Lothar Baumgarten)

2006      Gamblin Award, New York

Agnes Martin Fellowship Award, New York

“Auslandsförderung”, Studien Stiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Germany

2001      University for the Applied Arts and Science, Hamburg

 

 

DAS INSTITUT

 

2007      Founded by Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder as an Import/Export Agency

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2010      DAS INSTITUT (Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Rödler), Monopol Magazine

North Drive Press Vol.5, January

Art 41 Basel Catalogue, Basel

Frieze Art Fair Yearbook

2009      Modernmodern Catalogue, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

Art Berlin Contemporary Catalogue, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Berlin

LMCC LentSpace Newspaper, November 2009 (as DAS INSTITUT)

2008      Papermonument Vol.2, November 2008

Parkett Vol.83 (Insert)

Hidden Darts Reader (Josh Smith Catalogue Museum Mumok Vienna)

UOVO Vol.18 (as DAS INSTITUT)

Younger than Jesus Catalogue, New Museum New York

2005      Jurriaan Benschop, Kastalia Catalogue

 

 

SELECTED PRESS

 

2011      Zoe Stillpass, “Kerstin Brätsch”, Frieze Magazine, January – February 2011

2010      Ken Johnson, “Leopards in the Temple - Sculpture Center” (incl. DAS INSTITUT), NY Times, January

Elisabeth Chardon, “Drapeau fruite a Genever - Quartier des Bains” (incl DAS INSTITUT), Le Temps, January

Elke Buhr, “Portrait Kerstin Brätsch” (incl. DAS INSTITUT), Monopol Magazine, January

Jordon Troeller, “Vertically Integrated Manufacturing Murray Guy Gallery” (as DAS INSTITUT),

Artforum Online, January

Suzanne Hudson, “Besides, With, Against and Yet” (The Kitchen, London), Atrforum, February

Willow Belden, “Leopards in the Temple Melds the Concrete and Abstract” (incl. DAS INSTITUT), Queens Chronicle, January

Critics Picks, “Debo Eilers / Kerstin Brätsch: Best in Mixed Media”, Time Out NYC, January

Simon Baier, “Einsamkeit ist keine Kunst” (on NS / NG Show; incl. DAS INSTITUT), Kunsthalle Zürich,

Texte Zur Kunst, March

Saatchi Online, “The Inhabitants” (as DAS INSTITUT), VilmaGold, London, March

Espaces Contemporains, “La Victoire de L'Optimisme” (as DAS INSTITUT), Prix du Quartier des Bain, March

Mary Leclere, “The Question Of (E)quality : Art in the Age of Facebook”, X-Tra Magazine, Spring 2010, Vol.12, No.3

DAS INSTITUT, TOP TEN, Artforum, April

David Lewis, “Non Solo Non Group Show”, Kunsthalle Zürich, Artforum, April

Nick Smith, “Brooklyn- Based Arts Journal Presents A Paperthin Exhibition”, Trash and Treasure, Charleston City Paper, 22, March

Carly Busta, “Besides, With, Against and Yet”, May Magazine, April

HU Obrist, DU Magazine, June

V-Magazine, July

Spike Magazine, June

Kaleidoscope Magazine, June

2009      “Dictionary of Artists” ( incl. DAS INSTITUT), Flash Art, March

Brick Flac, Interview with Piper Marshall, Art in America Online, February

Carol Vogel, “Its Art of the Computer Generation”, New Museum, New York Times, March

Hanne Mugaas, “The ‘Painting’ Show Online” (with Debo Eilers), March

Howard Halle, “The Generational”, New Museum, Time Out NYC, April 22, “It's The Squid” (with Sonja Gerdes), Online Magazine
               (by Arnd Seibert)

Charlie Finch, “Jesus Responds”, New Museum, Artnet, April

Holland Cotter, “Young Artists Caught in the Act”, New Museum, New York Times, April

Paul Laster, “New Art from the Milleniais”, New Museum, Flavorwire, April

Claudia Bodin, “Oh My God”, New Museum, Art Magazine, April

Thomas Micchelli, “The Generational”, New Museum, The Brooklyn Rail, May

Joanna Fiduccia, “Original Copies/Images In The Zero Dimension”, Art On Paper, May

Vincent Katz, “NY Summertime”, New Museum, Apollo Magazine, June

Joan Waltemath, “Wiser than God”, New Museum, The Brooklyn Rail, July

Claire Moulene, “BUYBRÄTSCHWÖRST” (incl DAS INSTITUT), Galerie Balice Hertling, Artforum, September

German Vogue, September

Ewing, “No Bees No Blueberries”, Harris Lieberman (as DAS INSTITUT), ArtLies, Fall

Hans Jürgen Hafner, “Der Tisch als Konzeptprothese”, ABC Berlin (incl. DAS INSTITUT), Artnet, September

100 Top Artists, Flashart, October

Adam Kleinmann, “DI WHY,not?” (as DAS INSTITUT), Swiss Institute, Texte Zur Kunst Online, November

Marco Tagliafierro, “Solaris”, Gio Marconi, Artforum, November

David Lewis, “Bridges and Tunnels”, Hard Hat (as DAS INSTITUT), Artforum, December

TJ Carlin, “DAS INSTITUT DI WHY?” (as DAS INSTITUT), Swiss Institute, Artreview, December

Brigitte Ulmer, “Speed Dating unter Künstlern” (incl. DAS INSTITUT), Kunsthalle Zürich,

Neue Züricher Zeitung, December

2008      T.J. Carlin, “Standard Sizes”, Andrew Kreps, Time Out NYC, July

Stephen Maine, “Report From The Lower East Side”, Art in America, March

2007      Jerry Saltz, “Into the Fray”, Moti Hasson,The Village Voice, February

Roberta Smith, “Genesis I am Sorry”, Greene Naftali, New York Times, August

Holland Cotter, “Fractured In Aspect”, Andrew Kreps, New York Times, August

John Kelsey, “Top Ten 2007”, Evas Arche Nr.8, Artforum, December

Eric Angles, Open Edition 23