Kitty Kraus
| Type | Artist Female |
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| URLs | Institutions/museums Biography / works Other Wikiart Document CV Institutions/museums Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Other Interview |
| Awards | |||||
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| Artist in residence | 2017 | Stipendium des Goethe Instituts | Goethe Instituts | Salvador de Bahia, Brasilia | |
| Scholarship | 2014 | Stipendium Villa Aurora | Villa Aurora | Los Angeles, USA | |
| Award | 2011 | Nominierung für den Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst | Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | Berlin, Germany | |
| Award | 2008 | blauorange | Kunstpreis der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken | Bonn, Germany |
| Exhibitions | |||||
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| Group exhibition | 2018 | ILQuartier Éphémèmre | Centre d’arts visuels | Montréal, Canada | |
| Group exhibition | 2014 | Some Artists´ Artists | Marian Goodman | New York, USA | |
| Group exhibition | 2013 | The floating Admiral | Palais de Tokio | Paris, France | |
| Solo exhibition | 2011 | Kitty Kraus | Heidelberger Kunstverein | Heidelberg, Germany | |
| Group exhibition | 2011 | Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst | Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin, Germany | |
| Solo exhibition | 2009 | Intervals | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | New York, USA | |
| Solo exhibition | 2008 | Seth Price // Kitty Kraus | Kunsthalle Zürich | Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Group exhibition | 2008 | Political/Minimal, Kunst-Werke | Institute of Contemporary Art | Berlin, Germany | |
| Solo exhibition | 2006 | Kitty Kraus | Galerie Neu | Berlin, Germany | |
| Group exhibition | 2005 | Biennale für zeigenössische Kunst | Berlin, Germany |
| Artworks in Collections | |||
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| Boros Collection | Berlin, Germany |
| Publications | ||||||||||||
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| Monograph | 2014 | Verlag f. mod. Kunst | Kitty Kraus: Lidschlag/Blink of the Eye | on Kitty Kraus, Antonia Lotz, Veit Görner | 978-3869844985 | Wien | ||||||
| Monograph | 2010 | Kerber Verlag | Kitty Kraus (Kerber Edition Young Art) | Bettina Klein, Matthia Löbke, Veit Loers, Uwe Fröhlich | 978-3866783270 | Bielefeld | Bundesverband der deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken (BVR) | |||||
| Monograph | 2011 | White Cube | Kitty Kraus: inside the white cube. | Kitty Kraus; Dorothy Feaver; Honey Luard | 978-1906072537 | London | White Cube (Gallery) |
| Research & teaching | Lectureship/Lecturer | 2009 - 2010 | Lehrauftrag für Bildhauerei | Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee | Berlin, Germany | Temporary professorship | 2018 | Bildhauerei. | HFG Offenbach | Offenbach, Germany |
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Education
Berlin, Germany
Studies of Fine Arts with Prof. Lothar Baumgarten at the University of the Arts (UdK)
Born
Heidelberg, Germany
In her sculptures and installations, she explores the relationship between space and plane and the way geometry and figuration complement each other in an elementary form of expression. She usually works with materials such as glass, neon tubes and lamps, fabric, tar and paint, creating objects and installations that allow for individual associations. The simultaneous delicateness and aggressiveness of her language is noteworthy, as well as the sparseness of the material utilized.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/br/en/sta/sal/ueb/vil/kra.html (20.10.2019)
Though her work does not overtly comment on art-historical movements, it exercises a minimalist vocabulary of geometric precision, a reduced color palette, and the use of commonplace material such as glass, ink, cloth, and electricity. Through its handmade quality and threats of physical instability, Kraus’s work also evinces Post-Minimalist tendencies by exposing discreet imperfections of material that slowly manifest through the processes of melting, explosion, or subtle collapse. The inherent fragility of Kraus’s mediums betrays established ideas about the stability and longevity of sculptural form.
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/kitty-kraus (20.10.2019)
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Untitled | 2018 | Kitty Kraus | |
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Untitled (Light Box) | 2012 | Kitty Kraus | |