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About
Kerstin Serz
Kerstin Serz Contemporary Artist Berlin
about
Kerstin Serz came to Berlin in the 90s to study at the UdK. The relationships between human figures, animals, and plants form the fundamentals of her pictorial themes. By combining these fragmented elements in intricate ways, her work develops a language of the surreal in a cosmos unique to her art.
Kerstin Serz Contemporary Artist
Berlin, Deutschland
discover the unexpected
positions Berlin
Shelldiver
2021, oil und acryl on canvas, 180cm x 80cm
Domestication
2021, oil und acryl on canvas, 180cm x 80cm
Meatdiver
2021, oil und acryl on canvas, 180cm x 80cm
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endless summer
Immobile Life
In her most recent exhibition, Kerstin Serz takes the classic genre of still life painting into the dimensions of the present. A variety of materials and juxtapositions are explored, where meat and stone almost become indistinguishable.
Mannsblut
01 endless summer
In German the flower found in this still life is called "Mannsblut", which translates into "men's blood". Located in the predominately female-associated shell, this painting alludes to the inversions of traditional power structures and the significance of blood. The steak, a dish that can be described as more masculine, is suppressed by the shell who bears the flower. "Mannsblut" is a visual stacking of our preconceptions of gender-roles, and their arbitrariness .
night creatures
02
It is uncertain, whether the moth is forcing the leopard to open his mouth, or the moth has been trapped.
Wild hiss of soul
Babymoth without socks
Duskmoth
The exuding of colours, perhaps a kind of animalistic catharsis
02 night creatures
PRINTS
03
Traces of positive and negative spaces that imprint a reality onto sieved paper
The Hipster Series / Portraits of Hipsters addresses the rustic appearance of beards that has been popularised by "Hipsters" in Berlin.
03 Prints
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