During her studies, Kerstin Brätsch started working on her series of “Psychic” paintings, which she created after visits to fortune tellers. Some show non-representational forms, while others are reminiscent of abstracted heads or even portraits. In this series of works, the artist examines the relationship between subjectivity and expression, between interiority and surface, which is so essential to painting.
Along her subsequent series of works, which fan out these questions as if through a prism, Patrizia Dander’s lecture traces Kerstin Brätsch’s working method, which is as clever and serious as it is intuitive and humorous.
Patrizia Dander was most recently senior curator at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich, where in 2017 she curated the solo exhibition Kerstin Brätsch. Innovation. At the beginning of November, she took over as Deputy Artistic Director / Head of Curatorial Department at the Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf.