Working across different media, Kerstin Brätsch and DAS INSTITUT develop an investigation of abstraction and identity through their artistic practices. Brätsch’s work evolves at the intersection between abstraction and figuration, intertwining elements taken from design and fashion. Her large-scale oil paintings on paper and mylar are often left unframed, and are hung on walls and structures as giant banners and precarious partitions. Her subjects often appropriate the language of design, reproducing geometric patterns and fields of color that seem to cross-reference Bauhaus aesthetics with contemporary advertising campaigns.
The collaborative platform DAS INSTITUT (Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder), further develops a hybrid language which explores and reconfigures issues of authorship and de-centered forms of art-production. The artists constantly exchange, mutate, and rearrange imagery, making the sequence of copy and model irrelevant. Treat Your Own Neck features a new installation of paintings, sculptures, and posters, as well as a special, limited edition of digitally printed silk fabrics created by Adele Röder for DAS INSTITUT.
