KRISTIANE
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Kristiane Kegelmann explores the relationship between transience and constancy using a variety of different materials. Her fascination of alteration by the passing of time, and therefore the change of the materials she uses, is clearly visible in her sculptures and installations. Kegelmann might use food to challenge our perception of consume consumption, or she might work with water as an evaporisingevaporating component which leavinges stains of lime or salt. At the same time she uses strong materials like steel and glass – shaping objects that hold the memory of the changethe ephemeral materials and their memories.
Kristiane Kegelmann was born and raised in Munich, where she learned the craft of patisserie. and She practiced it in Vienna at the famous K.u.K.Hofzuckerbäckerei Demel in Vienna, Austria. Here she carried out her first sculptural experiments. Kegelmann participated in several group exhibitions, e.g. Kunstvereine Art van Demon and the Hunter College Projects New York, and solo exhibitions in Berlin, where she now lives and works. |
I think and work sculpturally and grasping for space is an essential part of my work. I explore my environment and shape these impressions in small-format as well as expansive sculptures and installations. I work with ephemeral materials such as food and water, as well as with strong materials like steel and glass. In doing so, I expand the range of possibilities for my artistic expression. This allows me to position my work in the present and juxtapose ephemeral and lasting materials, manifesting itself not in a standstill, but in transformation.
I intend to question and focus on of the relationship between human and nature. The reality, as I understand it, is perfection in imperfection. Based on this, it is never the smooth, beautiful, superficial, perfectly effective, but always the brittle, chapped, morbid, transient. |
