Through the elusive simplicity of both form and colour, the work of Kim Bartelt mediates on the ephemerality of the world and the poetic contradictions that lie at the heart of contemporary human experience. Her method of layering paper sheets of varying degrees of thickness onto canvas, produces a unique hybrid of painting and sculpture that contrasts the clarity of the forms with the fine, intimate detail of the textured paper. Creating canvases that draw the viewer inward, to reveal a pulsing inner landscape, that capture the often fragile connection between the seen and the unseen, the permanent and transient.
Her use of a consciously restrained visual vocabulary, consisting mainly of squares and rectangles, harness complex emotional states into seemingly controlled, harmonious compositions. A process that echoes the inherent dichotomy in her art-making, that strives for a sense of compositional stability despite being filtered through the intensely personalised prism of their creator. That diametric expression is reinforced by her deliberate choice of colour. Neither quite opaque nor excessively vibrant – her canvases maintain a luminosity that suggest a certain weight despite being suffused with light, like the skies and architecture in the paintings of Far Angelico and Piero Della Francesca, two major influences on the artist.
.
EXHIBITIONS
upcoming:
- 3 Person Show with Adelheid de Witte; Annamarie Ho, Kim Bartelt, Cadogan, L o n d o n, Jan 18, 2024
- MiArt M i l a n , Art Fair, April 2023 with Cadogan Gallery
- Solo Show, Cadogan L o n d o n , May 2024
2023
Volk x Paradise Room, Group Show, B e r l i n, Sept 2023
with Thomas Zipp, Peter Krauskopf, Ariane Hosemann, Felix Schröder
Break Easy, Solo Exhibition, Cadogan Gallery, M i l a n
May 17 – June 30, 2023
Through The Walls, Group Show, Cadogan L o n d o n, Jan/Feb 2023
with Mimi Jung, Perla Krause, Edoardo Dionea Cicconi, Andreas Diaz Anderson & more
.
2022
Soft Architectures, A Group Show, Barn Studio, P o t s d a m, Aug/Sept 2022
with Pablo Benzo, Bertram Hasenauer, Lawrence Calver, Davina Andrea Deplazes, Amelie Riech & Johannes Schön
.
An Endless Curve – Art Perspectives III, B e r l i n, May 2022
Circle Culture Gallery
.
Art Herning Art Fair with Bjorn Gundorph Gallery, D e n m a r k, Mai 2022
.
Stillleben, Solo Exhibition
Cadogan, L o n d o n, Jan-Feb 2022
.
2021
A Double Presentation, Wilhelmhallen Hallen #2 , B e r l i n Sept 2021
.
A Temporary Space, Studio Ima, M e x i c o C i t y Mai 2021
.
2020
Group Show Studio Ima M e x i c o C i t y , Group Show, Nov 2020
.
Moving Traces 04, Atelier Ecru Gallery G h e n t , Belgium, Group Show, Nov 2020 – Jan 2021
.
Define The Line, Online Group Show curated by Alessandro Stein, Oct 2020
PR17, Open Space, B e r l i n , Group Show, Sept 2020
Cadogan Contemporary, L o n d o n , Group Show, Aug 2020
Cadogan Contemporary, L o n d o n , Three Person Show, March 2020
.
Boiling Point, Group Show, B r i s b a n e Australia 2020
.
2019
Baldon B e r l i n , Kim Bartelt x Yellownose Studio, Dec 2019 – Jan 2020
.
Warbling Collective, L o n d o n , ’Perhaps we should have stayed’, Group Show, Nov 2019
.
GIFC at Hotel Paris, B e r l i n , Group Show, organised by ZeroZero Gallery, L A , USA, May 2019
.
2018
‘Let Me Know Before You Arrive’, Group Show, Warbling, L o n d o n , UK, Oct 2018
.
Anonymous Drawings, Group Show, Galerie im Körnerpark, B e r l i n , July – Sept, 2018
.
2017
‘Paper’, Solo Exhibition, Hettler.Tullmann, B e r l i n , Juni 2017
.
2016
‘A fleur de peau’, Solo Exhibition, Galerie Lacke&Farben, B e r l i n , Dec 2015 – Jan 2016
.
2014
Berliner Liste, Art Fair, Galerie Lacke&Farben, B e r l i n , Sept 2014
.
2013
Berliner Liste, Art Fair, Galerie Lacke&Farben, B e r l i n , Sept 2013
.
’Right Here’, Solo Exhibition, Galerie Lacke Farben, B e r l i n , May 2013
.
2003
The Whole Ball of Wax, Group Show, 2003, Women Made Gallery, C h i c a g o , USA
.
2000
‘Wintertales’, Solo Exhibition, Villa d’Este, C o m o , Italy
.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Joya, Almeria, Spain
September 2019
.
Numeroventi, Florence, Italy
March/April 2019
.
PUBLICATIONS
Sight Unseen, June 2023, Deborah Shapiro
La Repubblica, May 2023, Francesca Molteni
Ignant, May 2023, Clemens Poloczek for Ignant Productions
.
AD China, Dec 2022 print publication
.
Die Kunst – Women in Art (May 2022), print as part of Capital Magazine, Lorena Juan
.
Styler Mag Korea, January 2021, print publication, Anna Gye
.
Milk Decoration, Jan 2021, Sophie Bouchet
.
Sight Unseen, Dec 2020, Sean Santiago
.
AD Germany, April 2020, Tereza Bratkovic
.
Anniversary Magazine, March 2020, Anniversary Team
.
Milk Decoration Magazine, February 2020, Karine Monie, print publication #31
.
Wall Street Magazine, January 2020
.
Sight Unseen, December 2019, Jill Singer
.
Sight Unseen, October 2019, Malin Ebbing
.
FoA, February 2019
.
Tagesspiegel, June 2013, Friederike Höll
.
.
EDUCATION
Parsons The New School of Design, New York
BFA in Fine Arts
.
Parsons The New School of Design, Paris
.
Icart, Institut des Carrières Artistiques, Paris
Studies of Art History & Art Management