Opening: Friday | May 2, 2025 | 6 - 9 pm GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN: May 2 - 4, 2025 Sat & Sun: 12 am - 6 pm
May 2 - Jun 28, 2025
On the one hand, "drifting" describes a slow, barely noticeable movement that is influenced by external forces without anyone having any control over it. At the same time, "drifting" is also understood to mean the deliberately induced oversteering of a car, as a result of which the vehicle moves sideways to its own longitudinal axis, i.e. performs a movement for which it is not actually manufactured or intended.
Kirstin Arndt's artistic practice operates within this field of tension of meanings.
In this way, she also consciously relinquishes some control over the processes that lead to the artwork. Her way of shaping - she bends her material, folds and crumples it, hangs, bends or stretches it - not only pushes the limits of the material's resilience, the end result is also not completely predictable for Arndt.
The materials used - roof battens, Euro pallets, truck tarpaulins, metal plates, ropes - can be found in any DIY store. Kirstin Arndt elicits unexpected aesthetic qualities from them and shapes them into often expansive, minimalist works that are always related to and installed in a specific space. The artist is always interested in the relationship between line, surface and space and the transition from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional.
After numerous group exhibitions, drift is Kirstin Arndt's second solo exhibition at Galerie Mathias Güntner and the first at our Berlin location.
Kirstin Arndt (*1961 in Otterndorf) studied sculpture and painting at the Karlsruhe Art Academy. Her works are shown in national and international exhibitions and are part of important private and public collections. Kirstin Arndt has been a professor of art and free design at Mainz University of Applied Sciences since 2006. Arndt lives in Karlsruhe and Berlin.
May 2 - Jun 28, 2025
On the one hand, "drifting" describes a slow, barely noticeable movement that is influenced by external forces without anyone having any control over it. At the same time, "drifting" is also understood to mean the deliberately induced oversteering of a car, as a result of which the vehicle moves sideways to its own longitudinal axis, i.e. performs a movement for which it is not actually manufactured or intended.
Kirstin Arndt's artistic practice operates within this field of tension of meanings.
In this way, she also consciously relinquishes some control over the processes that lead to the artwork. Her way of shaping - she bends her material, folds and crumples it, hangs, bends or stretches it - not only pushes the limits of the material's resilience, the end result is also not completely predictable for Arndt.
The materials used - roof battens, Euro pallets, truck tarpaulins, metal plates, ropes - can be found in any DIY store. Kirstin Arndt elicits unexpected aesthetic qualities from them and shapes them into often expansive, minimalist works that are always related to and installed in a specific space. The artist is always interested in the relationship between line, surface and space and the transition from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional.
After numerous group exhibitions, drift is Kirstin Arndt's second solo exhibition at Galerie Mathias Güntner and the first at our Berlin location.
Kirstin Arndt (*1961 in Otterndorf) studied sculpture and painting at the Karlsruhe Art Academy. Her works are shown in national and international exhibitions and are part of important private and public collections. Kirstin Arndt has been a professor of art and free design at Mainz University of Applied Sciences since 2006. Arndt lives in Karlsruhe and Berlin.