Fossil Psychic for Christa (Stucco Marmo)
Long Lake Estates
Kerstin Brätsch was born in Hamburg in 1979.
She is known for colorful, large-scale compositions using oil paint and a range of other materials to explore the nature of painting in the digital age. From her signature paintings—many of which resemble geodes or marbled surfaces—to her installations and performances, Brätsch’s work explores collaboration, the circulation of images, and the role of chance in image-making. She often collaborates with other artists under the names DAS INSTITUTE as well as KAYA.
“The [pandemic] gave me time to reflect and hold space. I practiced solitude… I had spent decades working with other people, collaborators and artisans, colleagues, and students to investigate the idea of painting in the extended field and suddenly I found myself locked into a tiny cell facing myself with no other art material around than paper and colored pencils. I began to draw, which I had left behind twenty years ago, almost terrified to start and anxious about an uncertainty, insecurity, and emptiness inside. To my surprise these drawings became extremely intimate and meaningful to me, I developed a relationship with them as if they were my closest friends, my daily mantras.” - Kerstin Brätsch, December 20, 2020
