For her exhibition, Kerstin Brätsch is transforming the Kunstmuseum Bonn into a dense cosmos of images. With her intensely luminous paintings, the artist draws on the long tradition of abstract art and at the same time expands it. The central starting point of her work is the relationship between painting and the body on a physical, but also on a psychological and social level. In doing so, she combines the individual
brushstrokes with digital effects and artisanal techniques.

With new productions and works from the past 15 years, the exhibition opens up a broad overview of Kerstin Brätsch’s oeuvre, in which she repeatedly questions painting in a radically new way. Similar to the principle of mimicry in animals, her motifs wander through various media formats. Factors such as light and chance
become equal elements in the artistic process. Kerstin Brätsch also regularly engages in collective forms of work, posing fundamental questions about authorship and the subjectivity of painting. The exhibition is complemented by collaborative projects by DAS INSTITUT (with Adele Röder), Sergei Tcherepnin, KAYA (with Debo Eilers) and Wibke Tiarks. Her works can be seen regularly in international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale and are represented in important private and public collections. The artist has received prestigious awards, including the Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting, the Peill Prize of the Günther Peill Foundation, the August Macke Prize for Painting and the Munch Award of the Munchmuseet in Oslo.