Artworks from Susann Kasten-Jerke

Soft contrast of complementary colours

Susann Kasten-Jerke - The graduate of the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts lives the complexity in her paintings. A wafer-thin multi-layered pictorial structure of forms, colours & materials, which mutually condition and inspire each other, create a tension between the elements, which appears delicate and powerful at the same time, determine her paintings. Seams mark interfaces, old connections are loosened, new contexts emerge. Experimenting with forms, colours and materials determines the artist's work.

Kasten-Jerke redefines painting. She does not chase after trends, rather she processes everyday life, everyday events in her paintings. Her works generally focus on a colourful, almost delicate choice of colours, which is definitely also combined with strong hues, as well as on lines and shapes that repeatedly set accents. In her most recent representations, something new can be observed: The artist succeeds in creating the illusion of spatiality, which is essentially due to her wafer-thin multi-layered pictorial composition. This way of working gives the viewer a noticeable lightness in the paintings.
Her painting, the play between concentrated smallness and wide, calm surfaces, which correspond with each other and create tension, speaks directly to the viewer. The artist describes the effect of her painting on the recipient as an 'ART of breathing through'. Important to her is the working process, the concentrated immersion in a world all of its own, which develops in the process. The picture is created without following a specific idea in a constant dialogue. There is a certain euphoria during the working process, in which the artist explores the heights and abysses of abstraction with material and motif. The real life, - takes place in art - the Kieler says about herself: 'Painting enriches my life, already a splash of colour, a surface can touch me!'

Vita

1984 Studies at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts: Dipl.-Ing. degree.
2001-11 Artistic training with Deborah Di Meglio (Di Meglio School of Fine Arts)
2003-06 Summer workshop Arts & Movements
2005 Foundation of the artist group weibsart
2007 Opening of the weibsart studio
2014 Studio in the Anscharpark, Kiel
2015 Studio in the artist house Legienstr. 26, Kiel
2017 Opening of Galerie Sukaart, Ascheberg
2020 Membership in the Association of Visual Artists (BBK) Schleswig-Holstein

Exhibitions (excerpt)

2019 Don't think! Kulturhaus 'Alte Apotheke' Schönberg, Germany
2019 66th State Exhibition BBK, Schleswig, Germany
2019 FormArt Glinde, Hamburg, Germany
2019 Encounters beyond the line, Int. Exhibition, Kammgarn, Kaiserslautern, Germany
2018 AlsterArt at AEZ, Hamburg, Germany
2017 International Gallery Marziart, Hamburg
2016 Gallery Art for you, Lübeck, Germany
2016 Emotions, IMMO Gallery, Painting & Sculpture, Kiel, Germany
2011 PrivateArt, Inlingua Sprachcenter, Kiel, Germany
2011 FiftyFifty, Foyer of the Municipal Hospital Kiel, Germany
2009 ©SHUT IT DOWN, Di Meglio School Of Fine Arts, Kiel, Germany
2007 Shut it down, di Meglio School of Fine Arts, Germany
2007 Harridslevgaard Castle, Funen, Denmark
2005 No Still Life ... Central Library of Economics (ZBW) Kiel, Germany

Publications (Catalogues)

Catalogue, 61st State Exhibition 2014 Schleswig-Holstein / Ostholstein Museum Eutin
Catalogue, 66th State Show 2019 Schleswig-Holstein / Gottorf Castle State Museum
Catalogue, Alsterart 2014-19, Hamburg