was
awarded the ‘Absolventenpreis’ at the exhibition The
Graduates at the Städelmuseum in Frankfurt.
Kerstin
Stoll was born in 1969 and lives and works in Hamburg,
Germany, where she studied at the art academy until 1999.
In her works – mostly works on paper, installations and sculptures
– she refers to exemplary natural forms that recall mysterious
primordial elements, black monoliths, crystalline honeycombs
or supernatural light phenomena. In her work, strictly rationalist
technical methods merge with utopian and mystical content.
“In my artistic discussion I examine and use those imaginations
of past ideas of future references. The Utopias of the 19th
and 20th centuries didn’t create any longer an ideal state
outside of the real space: no place, nowhere. They were Utopias
of an ideal condition as an end of the history.” In 2005
Kerstin Stoll exhibited in, amongst other shows, Alles
in einer Nacht at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York and Suburbia in Kunstverein Springbornhof. Her next solo exhibition will
be at the Galleria Laurin in Zürich in autumn 2006.
Anja Schwörer, born 1971, lives and works
in Berlin. From 1997 to 2003 she studied at the academy of
fine arts in Karlsruhe. Her mostly large format, black images
are made by dyeing or decolouring the canvas. back continue