Silke Eva K\u00e4stner (lives and works in Berlin and Uckermark) developed her creative approach while traveling in India, New York, and Japan. She creates temporary on-site paintings as well as conceptual pieces in which the viewer comes upon prepared materials and becomes part of\u2014or even alters\u2014the picture. K\u00e4stner documents these encounters in photographs or filmic traces out of which she compiles films in the editing suite. Probing the potentials of painting as communication, she foregrounds the active intervention and process. In the gallery no less than the urban scene, K\u00e4stner places painting in relation to architecture in order to frame it in varying perspectives.<\/p>\n
The monograph offers insight into the foci of K\u00e4stner\u2019s art; the works are grouped in chapters rather than arranged in chronological sequence. This structure makes the book a space of experience that gives the reader a vivid sense of her ephemeral creations.<\/p>\n
After studying with Katharina Grosse at the Wei\u00dfensee School of Art and Design Berlin, Silke Eva K\u00e4stner won the Mart Stam Prize; she honed her craft in India on a NaF\u00f6G fellowship and in New York on a yearlong DAAD fellowship. Funding support from the Institut f\u00fcr Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) enabled her to initiate an ongoing exchange project between Kashmir and Berlin. Her work has been on view at numerous institutions including the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; the Devi Art Foundation, Delhi; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; the Queens Museum of Art, New York; K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Silke Eva K\u00e4stner (lives and works in Berlin and Uckermark) developed her creative approach while traveling in India, New York, and Japan. She creates temporary on-site paintings as well as conceptual pieces in which the viewer comes upon prepared materials and becomes part of\u2014or even alters\u2014the picture. K\u00e4stner documents these encounters in photographs or filmic traces out of which she compiles films in the editing suite. Probing the potentials of painting as communication, she foregrounds the active intervention and process. In the gallery no less than the urban scene, K\u00e4stner places painting in relation to architecture in order to frame it in varying perspectives.<\/p>\n
The monograph offers insight into the foci of K\u00e4stner\u2019s art; the works are grouped in chapters rather than arranged in chronological sequence. This structure makes the book a space of experience that gives the reader a vivid sense of her ephemeral creations.<\/p>\n
After studying with Katharina Grosse at the Wei\u00dfensee School of Art and Design Berlin, Silke Eva K\u00e4stner won the Mart Stam Prize; she honed her craft in India on a NaF\u00f6G fellowship and in New York on a yearlong DAAD fellowship. Funding support from the Institut f\u00fcr Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) enabled her to initiate an ongoing exchange project between Kashmir and Berlin. Her work has been on view at numerous institutions including the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; the Devi Art Foundation, Delhi; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; the Queens Museum of Art, New York; K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17698,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2210,2213,2216,2211],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17705","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-film-and-video","8":"product_cat-painting","9":"product_cat-performance-art","10":"product_cat-photography","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n