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

Currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

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