SHORT INFO
Roof battens, Euro pallets, truck tarpaulins, metal plates, ropes - the materials that Kirstin Arndt (*1961 in Otterndorf, lives in Düsseldorf) has been working with since the 1990s are simple, industrially manufactured and familiar to every viewer. In her minimalist yet expansive works, which she creates from these everyday materials, she explores the relationship between line, surface and space. She is interested in the transition from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional as well as the change between form-finding and form-dissolution.*
Kirstin Arndt's working principle is to react to the respective exhibition space. In her first solo exhibition at Galerie Mathias Güntner, she also referred to the structures, proportions and dimensions of the gallery space.
* Anne Schloen, in KIRSTIN ARNDT, Henbury, 2018
VITA
Kirstin Arndt lives and works in Düsseldorf
Born in Otterndorf/Lower Saxony in 1961
1991 - 97 Studied sculpture and painting at the Karlsruhe Art Academy; master student, diploma
Professor at Mainz University of Applied Sciences since 2006
www.kirstin-arndt.com
Solo exhibitions (selection)
| 2023 | Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2022 | ADHOC Room, Bochum Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, IRE |
| 2021 | Kunstverein Pforzheim (with Simone Demandt) TOM, Backnang |
| 2020 | Kunstverein Mönchengladbach gkg, Bonn (with Martina Klein) Ratingen Protestant Church |
| 2019 | Loods12, Wetteren (Ghent), B PS projectspace, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2018 | Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, IRE Gallery Gisela Clement, Bonn (cat.) |
| 2016/17 | Wagon scales, Cologne (Cat.) |
| 2015 | Gallery Kim Behm, Frankfurt |
| 2012 | Gallery Gudrun Fuckner, Ludwigsburg (with Philippe Richard) |
| 2011 | Gallery Olschewski & Behm, Frankfurt (with Stephen Bambury) |
| 2010 | Gallery 5räume, Ludwigsburg (with Andreas Reiter Raabe) |
| 2009 | Kunstverein Nürtingen (Cat.) Hamish Morrison Gallery, Project Space, Berlin |
| 2007 | Museum of Non-Objective Art, Otterndorf (cat.) |
| 2006 | Irish Museum of Modern Art, process room, Dublin, IRE |
| 2005 | Gallery Michael Sturm, Stuttgart |
| 2004 | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse, F (cat.) |
| 2003 | Gallery BURO EMPTY , Amsterdam, NL Neuhausen/Fildern Art Association |
| 2002 | Gallery of the city of Fellbach |
| 2001 | Heidelberger Kunstverein (Cat.) Gallery Michael Sturm, Stuttgart |
| 2000 | Musée de Valence (Art 3), F (Cat.) Municipal Gallery Villingen-Schwenningen (Cat.) |
Group exhibitions (selection)
| 2023 | Shimmer Shimmer, Rotterdam, NL Colors in a Square - Works from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Fondazione Marcello Morandine, Varese, I |
| 2022 | B-LA-CONNECT, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, USA New Horizons, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, IRE Dialoog overschilderd, ANBI Stichting, Onstwedde, NL PURE, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, DE PEK, Visserhallen, Ijmuiden, NL |
| 2021 | EST is what IS was, EST art foundation, Leiden, NL WORLD, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, IRE |
| 2020 | implicit movement, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, B Remote Joy, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, IRE beyond the wall, Kunstverein Neuhausen, Fildern |
| 2019 | memento mori, Daniel Marzona Gallery, Berlin looking at the world..., Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, B Summer show, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, IRE Bauhaus interiors, Women's Museum, Bonn, (cat.) All-In, l'oiseau présente, Cubiculum, Berlin Back to the Future 2, Kim Behm Gallery, Mannheim |
| 2018 | Backstage 2, Gallery Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin New Beginnings, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, IRE Backstage 3, Galerie Thomas Rehbein, Cologne MOMU (Fashion Museum) at Verbaet Artcenter, Antwerp, B Notre Dame des Fleurs, De Huiskamer, Amsterdam, NL Constructor, Galerie N-Z, Arendonk, B orten, E-Werk, Freiburg (Cat.) (almost) nothing, Kim Behm Gallery, Frankfurt |
| 2017 | Future, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, IRE Red comes before red, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch Backstage 1, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, B Reduction as Condensation, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Triple point, FONDATION FIMINCO, Paris, F Four positions from four locations, Kunstverein Nürtingen |
| 2016 | Modes of Minimization, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn From Scratch, Pictura, Dordrecht, NL |
| 2015 | Standard International, Post Spatial Devices #2, Berlin Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf Museum of Non-Objective Art, Otterndorf (cat.) INTRO, Clement & Schneider Gallery, Bonn Thoughts around the Black Square, Museum Vasarely, Budapest, HU (cat.) that's all, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, B The Art of Folding, PEAK Museum, Freiburg (cat.) The Art of Folding, Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt (cat.) Construct!, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin just that, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt a. M. Collector's Choice Only! - MATERIAL, PEAK Museum, Freiburg (cat.) Paper V, drawing, Clement & Schneider Galerie, Bonn What you have. No. 2, "Dahlhausen viral", Ahlen Art Museum |
| 2014 | Schwarz, Galerie Rehbein, Cologne Beyond the wall, Kunstverein Bochum Papier/Paper IV, collage, kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn |
| 2013 | Kunstraum Düsseldorf, 5x3, Düsseldorf Wieder sehen, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf PLASTIK, kunstgaleriebonn, exhibition project in Cologne Novecento mai visto/ Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, I |
| 2012 | DRAWING QUOTE! Pigna Project Space, Rome, I (digital cat.) Arndt/Fock/Oberthaler/Schulz - Andratx open II, CCA Museum, Andratx, Mallorca, ES Arndt/Craig/ Pfeifle, Galerie Gudrun Fuckner, Ludwigsburg Show. Curated by Karin Sander, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe |
| 2011 | Private/Corporate VI, Daimler Art Collection, Berlin American Abstract Artists/Deutscher Künstlerbund/Galerie oqbo, Berlin Professorale, Schloss Untergröningen Gallery Gudrun Fuckner, Ludwigsburg |
| 2010 | Andratx-open, CCA, Andratx, Mallorca, ES |
| 2009 | Gallery 5räume, Ludwigsburg |
| 2008/09 | Guest performance, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch (cat.) Raumwechsel 10, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg |
| 2007 | blind date, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven Raumwechsel 9, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg Gabriele Münter Prize exhibition, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (cat.) |
| 2006 | Painted Objects, CCNOA, Brussels, B |
| 2005 | 5 from Karlsruhe, Kunstverein Offenburg Rectus Collection, Ludwigsburg Palace Painted Objects, PS projectspace, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2004 | Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, IRE Permanent Representation of Baden-Württemberg, Berlin |
| 2003 | settings #1, loop, Berlin The silver cut, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, (cat.) Scenes from everyday life, Ludwigsburger Kunstverein, (cat.) |
| 2001 | chairs in contemporary art, Civic Museum of Udine, IT (cat.) |
| 2000 | 2000 Sickingen Art Prize 2000, Kaiserslautern (cat.) Painting, Gallery Michael Sturm, Stuttgart |
| 1999 | Summer 99, Gallery Michael Sturm, Stuttgart |
| 1998 | Downtown, Württ. Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE (Cat.) Hürth Art Prize, Kunstverein Hürth, in the work P2 (cat.) |
| 1997 | Balkenhol class, Künstlerhaus, Ulm Master student 1997, Bruchsal Castle (cat.) Traverse - 7 positions of young art, Mannheim (cat.) jus primae noctis, Akinci Gallery, Amsterdam, NL |
| 1996 | Skulptur Südwest, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (cat.) |
| 1995 | Impulse Gallery Löhrl, Mönchengladbach (cat.) |
Prizes, scholarships, projects (selection)
| 2015 | CCA, Art Foundation Mallorca (artist in residence), ES |
| 2012 | CCA, Art Foundation Mallorca (artist in residence), ES |
| 2010 | CCA, Art Foundation Mallorca (artist in residence), ES |
| 2007/08 | World Expo 2008, German Pavilion, 1st prize and realization, with Totems | Communication & Architecture + Reinecke New Media, Stuttgart |
| 2007 | Cité de Paris (working scholarship from the state of Baden-Württemberg) |
| 2006 | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (artist in residence at IMMA) - Competition Holocaust Memorial in Vienna, 1st prize; in Coop. with architects Fischer Naumann Partnerschaft, Stuttgart |
| 2002 | ceaac, Strasbourg (working scholarship from the state of Ba.-Wü.) |
| 2000 | Sickingen Art Prize, Kaiserslautern, 2nd prize |
| 1999 | Art Foundation Ba.-Wü., Scholarship art 3, Valence (working grant from the state of Ba.-Wü.) |
| 1996 | Ecology Art Prize 1996, AEG, Nuremberg, 2nd prize |
Teaching activity
| since 2006 | Professorship at Mainz University of Applied Sciences |
| 2005/06 | Deputy professor, Karlsruhe Art Academy |
| 2004 | Research associate and assistant to Prof. Steven Craig at the University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts |
| 2002/3 | Lectureship at Pforzheim University, Faculty of Design |
Monographs (catalogs)
Kirstin Arndt, Henbury, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn 2019, 8 p., ISBN 978-3-00-061736-2, DE
Kirstin Arndt, WESTWAND, Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage e.V., 2017, 18 p., ISBN 978-3-9818098-7-9, D/GB
Kirstin Arndt, YOU MOVED MY BOOK, Kunstverein Nürtingen, 2010, 8 p., DE
Kirstin Arndt, Retour de Paris, Institut Francais Stuttgart, 2008, 64 p., DE/FR
Kirstin Arndt, a wave lenght ahead, Museum für gegenstandsfreie Kunst, Otterndorf, 2007,14 p., DE
Kirstin Arndt, PRÊT, CEAAC, Strasbourg (F), Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2004, 96 p., DE/FR
Kirstin Arndt, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2001, 64 p., DE/GB
Kirstin Arndt, Art 3, Valence, (F) and Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen, (Coprod.), 2000, 64 p., DE/FR
Kirstin Arndt, master student at the Staatl. Academy d. B. K. Karlsruhe, 1997, 14 p., D