Kim Bartelt
Kim Bartelt trained in painting at the Parson’s School of Design but abandoned the medium in favour of using found paper in her compositions. Bartlet painstakingly pastes irregular segments of coloured and transparent sheets of paper to canvas. Her paintings are infused with a delicate energy, embodying the meditative quality of her minute collage process. The sensitivity of the semi-transparent tissue paper used emphasises this process of layering and accumulation.
‘With this medium you can’t undo anything or erase any errors, but I actually like the little accidents, folds, wrinkles and even small stains that evoke the fragility of life in general and of us humans in particular’
Collected over the years, These re-used fragments allude to their past applications in their wrinkles and folds. In her more recent works, the paper is imbued with a greater sense of conceptuality, reflecting on the nature and physical properties of painting but also as an index linking each painting to its core meanings.
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Packing Paper Houses VII130cm x 100cm (51" x 39")
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Packing Paper Houses VI100cm x 100cm (39" x 39")
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Mobile Homes IX100cm x 130cm (39" x 51")
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Haus II100cm x 80cm (39" x 31")
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Haus I100cm x 90cm (39" x 35")
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Fundstücke VII, 2020150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Stillleben I ,130cm x 160cm (51" x 63")
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Stillleben II ,110cm x 140cm (43" x 55")
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Stillleben III ,100cm x 100cm (39" x 39")
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Stillleben IV,80cm x 80cm (31" x 31")
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Stillleben IX,110cm x 110cm (43" x 43")
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Stillleben V,80cm x 80cm (31" x 31")
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Kim Bartelt
Stillleben 25 Jan - 19 Feb 2022Cadogan Contemporary are excited to announce a new solo exhibition of works by Berlin based German artist Kim Bartelt. Having trained in painting at the Parsons School of Design, Bartelt...Read more -
Invisible Subjects
Kim Bartelt, Laurence Leenaert and Tycjan Knut 2 - 20 Mar 2020Cadogan Contemporary is delighted to present Invisible Subjects, a group exhibition that brings together new work by Kim Bartelt, Tycjan Knut and LRNCE. The exhibition explores the idea of paintings...Read more
Currently based in Berlin, Bartelt completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in New York, and has since regularly exhibited in group and solo shows in Chicago, Berlin, Paris, and London. Her works have been shown at the Berliner Liste Art Fair with Galerie LackeFarben and have been featured in numerous publications. She has been represented by Cadogan Contemporary since 2020 with her first solo exhibition with the gallery taking place in January 2022.
Education
1998 | Parsons The New School of Design, New York - BFA in Fine Arts |
1994-95 | Parsons The New School of Design, New York - Foundation Year |
1992-94 | Icart, Institute des Carrières Artistiques, Paris - Studies of Art History and Art Management |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 | 'Paper' Hettler.Tullmann, Berlin |
2016/15 | 'A fleur de peau', Galerie Lacke&Farben, Berlin |
2013 | 'Right Here', Galerie Lacke Farben, Berlin |
2000 | 'Wintertales', Solo Exhibition, Villa d'Este, Como, Italy |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 |
GIFC at Hotel Paris, Berlin. Organised by ZeroZero Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
Blankartobjects, San Francisco |
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2018 | Amélie, Maison d'Art, Paris |
2014/13 | Berliner Liste, Discovery Art Fair, Galerie Lacke&Farben, Berlin |
1998 | Parsons School of Design Gallery, New York |
1996 | Parsons School of Design Gallery, Paris |
Artist Residencies
September 2019 | Joya, Almería, Spain |
March/April 2019 | Numeroventi, Florence, Italy |
Publications
Sight Unseen, December 2019, Jill Singer, https://www.sightunseen.com/2019/12/kim-bartelt-x-yellownose-baldon-berlin/
Sight Unseen, October 2019, Malin Ebbing, https://www.sightunseen.com/2019/10/berlin-home-tour-german-artist-kim-bartelt-paper-paintings/
FoA, February 2019 https://www.friendoftheartist.com/store/volume8
Tagesspiegel, June 2013, Friederike Höll, https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/ohne-ende/8389776.html
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KIM BARTELT | SLEEK MAGAZINE
Sofia Driouich , Sleek Magazine , July 12, 2021 -
KIM BARTELT | THE SPACES | MENTION
Rosella Degori , The Spaces , March 8, 2021 -
INVISIBLE SUBJECTS | WALL STREET INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE
Wall Street International Magazine , January 27, 2021 -
KIM BARTELT | NEW NORM MAGAZINE HONG KONG | FEATURE
New Norm Magazine Hong Kong, October 16, 2020 -
KIM BARTELT | HUNDHUND STORIES | FEATURE
Ewan Waddell, HundHund Stories , September 14, 2020 -
KIM BARTELT | MILK DECORATION MAGAZINE FRANCE
Karine Monié, MilK Decoration Magazine France , June 1, 2020 -
KIM BARTELT | ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST GERMANY | FEATURE
Tereza Bratkovic , Architectural Digest Germany, April 23, 2020 -
KIM BARTELT | HERZ UND BLUT | FEATURE
Wilkin Schröder, Herz und Blut (AD Partner Site) , April 6, 2020 -
INVISIBLE SUBJECTS | ANNIVERSARY MAGAZINE
Anniversary Team, Anniversary Magazine , March 3, 2020 -
INVISIBLE SUBJECTS | FAD MAGAZINE
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine , February 24, 2020 -
KIM BARTELT | SIGHT UNSEEN | FEATURE
Malin Ebbing, Sight Unseen, October 8, 2019