Portrait

“I create permanently
In a visual experiment, a game with myself
A magic moment, drunk on ideas
In order to exist, differently, with others
experiences of meanings and sensations
to embrace my dreams
with excess and in my solitude create with all available means
a visual experience necessary,
finally, to feel alive.”

Text by Katrin Bremermann

Katrin Bremermann, who was born in Bremen in 1965, describes herself as a painter that works like a sculptor. A closer look at her “wax drawings” shows how accurate this statement is. These lacquer drawings on paper initially appear very graphic, clear and two-dimensional. Up close, however, you can see that the leaves are structured more like a relief. Black grids, hatching, lines or dots are usually applied to the paper first, followed by a layer of wax that makes the sheet partially transparent and only then is the strong lacquer color applied with the help of stencils. These works on waxed paper can only be fully grasped before the original. Because their slight depth effect and blurriness of the wax surface or the delicate lines in many leaves are completely lost in the photograph next to the dominant primary color.
Some of the colored areas are reminiscent of cutting patterns, architectural floor plans or strange characters. They are finely balanced and mutually relate to one another. The sheets live particularly through the play of positive and negative surfaces as well as between flatness and spatial depth. The color forms leave a lot of room for associations.

Vita

Katrin Bremermann

born 1965 in Bremen, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin

EXHIBITIONS

2025

- La Fleur de Barbe, Kristof de Clercq Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
- Unverfänglich Konkret, (groupshow), Loop-haus, Berlin
- Eternit Haus, mit Gerold Miller, Florian Schmid Art, Berlin

2024

- 3D, Wegweisende Plastik der konkreten Gegenwart, (groupshow)
RAUM SCHROTH in the Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest
- Farbe Fläche Form, Basement, (groupshow), Berlin
- Duo, Kollaboration mit Riki Mijling, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
- Curators Choice, collaboration with Kirstin Arndt, Florian Schmid Art, Berlin
- Weltraum, Galerie Wilms, (groupshow) Venlo, Niederlande

2023

- Notes to self, Kristof de Clercq Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
- UMLAUT, Gallery Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
- Drawing Now, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Paris, France

2022

- Art Antverp, Kristof de Clercq Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
- Drawing Now, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Paris, France
- Art Rotterdam, Gallery Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
- Enter Art, galeri Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021

- Tracks, collaboration with German Stegmaier, Kristof de Clercq Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
- Art Antverp, Kristof de Clercq gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2020

- Incremental abstraction (groupshow) Kunstverein Berlin, Germany
- Je ne suis pas seule, Gallery Martin Mertens, Berlin, Germany
- In my Bubble, Gallery Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
- Drawing Now, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Paris, France

2019

- Gradation, (Groupshow) Patrick Heide Gallery, London,UK
- Entre lignes et surfaces, Goethe Institute Paris, collaboration with German Stegmaier, France
- Drawing Now, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Paris, France
- Paper Positions Fair, Galerie Martin Mertens, Basel, Switzerland
- SWAB Art fair, Gallery Martin Kudlek, Barcelona, Spain
- PAN Fair, Amsterdam, Galerie Martin Mertens, Netherland
- Paréidolie fair, Gallery Martin Kudlek, Marseille, France
- Positions Fair, Galerie Martin Mertens, Frankfurt, Germany
- Vienna Contemporary Art Fair, Galerie Martin Mertens, Austria
- YIA Paris fair, Bernard Vidal – Nathalie Bertoux art contemporain, Paris, France
- Art Rotterdam, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Netherland
- Invitation to Anni and Josef Albert Foundation, Residency

2018

- Untilted art Miami, Gallery Joe, Miami Beach, USA
- Inasmuch, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
- Winter show, (Group) Gallery Joe, Phildelphia, USA
- Carte blanche, (Group)Bertoux-Vdal contemporain, Paris
- Positions Fair, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin, Germany
- Art on Paper Amsterdam, Galerie Martin Mertens, Holland
- Vienna Contemporary Art Fair, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Austria
- Paper Positions Basel, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Switzerland
- Drawing Now, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Paris, France

2017

- Standard Deviation, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin, Germany
- Centre culturel les Quinconces de L’Espal, (Group) Le Mans, France
- Art Space P 60, (Group) Assen, Hollande
- Off the wall, (Group) RaumX, London, Great Britain
- Positions Fair, Galerie Martin Mertens, Munich, Germany
- Drawing Now, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Paris, France
- Art Rotterdam, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Neatherlands
- Kudlek & Rivoli, Brussels

2016

- l’amoureuse en secret, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin, Germany
- More canvas, please, ( Group) Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Brussels, Belgium, Belgium
- The proof of the pudding is in the eating#2, (Group)Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
- The Brussels Contemporary Drawing Fair, (Solo), Galerie Martin Kudlek, Brussels, Belgium
- Positions Fair, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin, Germany
- Art London, Gallery Patrick Heide, London, UK
- Drawing Now, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Paris, France
- Art Paris, Bernard Vidal – Nathalie Bertoux art contemporain, Paris, France
- Art Rotterdam, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Neatherlands
- Drawing Room, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Galerie Martin Mertens, , Madrid, Spain
- Amsterdam Drawing, Galerie Martin Mertens, Holland
- Volta 12, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Basel, Switzerland

2015

- In and out, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
- Oeuvres recentes, Galerie Vidal – St Phalle, Paris, France
- Suchness/SoSein, ( Group) RaumX, London, Great Britain
- Positions, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin, Gemany
- Amsterdam Drawing, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Netherlands
- Drawing Now, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Paris, France
- Volta 11, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Basel, Switzerland
- London Art, Galerie Martin Kudlek, London, Great Britain
- MM Projects, Galerie Martin Mertens, Karlsruhe, Germany

2014

- Inventory of an education, Galerie Vidal St – Phalle, Paris, France
- OFF LINE ON MARK,( Group) Parallel Art Space, Bushwick, USA
- Ellipse, ( Group) A3 gallery – municipal gallery Moscow, Russia

PUBLICATIONS

2018

- Katrin Bremermann – Works 2015-2017, Berlin, Germany
- The drawer, Paris, France

2017

- Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Germany

2014

- Art Press, Paris, France
-Modern Painters, New York, USA