KERSTIN BRUCHHÄUSER
Hamburg, Germany
CV
2009 – 2016 Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, PhD Art and Design
1999 – 2005 HAW Hamburg, Diploma, Communication Design
EXHIBITIONS
2023
You May Recognize Yourself, Hauptkirche St. Katharinen, Hamburg
Excellence in Fibers, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, California
Scythia, 11th International Mini Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine
Scythia, 3rd International Micro Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine
Flags of a Shifted Territory, Projectspace Festival, SALVE Berlin
International Art Textile Biennale, Fibre Arts Australia (traveling show)
East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia
Emu Park Art Gallery, Emu Park, Queensland, Australia
Moonah Arts Centre, Tasmania, Australia (2024)
Australian Design Centre, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia (2024)
Geelong Art Space, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (2024)
Fabrik, Lobethal, South Australia (2024)
2022
You May Recognize Yourself, mom art space, Hamburg
Small Works, JAG Gallery, Key West, Florida
Human Form and Figure, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Centre/SCORE, Encino, California
You May Recognize Yourself, Gut Siggen, Heringsdorf
stay. strong. resilient., Kunsthaus Hamburg
Fiberart International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Der Palast ist leer, nachtspeicher23, Hamburg
Drap-Art, 26th International Festival of Sustainable Art of Catalonia, Reial Cercle Artístic, Barcelona
2021
Easterfield Festival, Kunstverein in Hamburg
The Fine Art of Denim, Pollak Gallery, Center for the Arts, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey
Kunstpreis UPC, Zentrum für Zirkuläre Kunst, Lübz und VKU, Berlin
St. Pauli – 100 Blickwinkel, Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg
CuxPaperArt21 – Paper for Future, Schloss Ritzebüttel, Cuxhaven
2020
Material Identity, Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, Colorado, (honourable Mention by the jury)
Sie haben Post, MOM art space, Hamburg
Interpretation Board Project, The Residency Project, Pasadena, California
Summer Show, realART Gallery, Agoura Hills, California
Women's Works, Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, Illinois (Artistic Merit Award, Northwest Area Arts Council)
2019 – 2022
The World of Frida (traveling show)
Carlsbad Museum & Art Center, Carlsbad, New Mexico
Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida
Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, California
Center for the Arts, Escondido, California
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, Texas
R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisana
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
2018
The World of Frida, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California
Mutter.form, Kunsthaus Hamburg
POSITION, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg
2017
Post-G20 Art Summit, Galerie Speckstraße, Hamburg
Totally Pasted, Batchawana Bay, Ontario
2016
Future Vintage Proposals, Alte Staatsbank, Weimar
2015
Ausgewählt!, Haus am Horn, Weimar
GRANTS
2021 Work Grant Gut Siggen, Alfred Töpfer Stiftung F.V.S., Hamburg
2020 Von Kunst leben, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S., Hamburg
2014 Chancengleichheit für Künstlerinnen, Bauhaus Research School, Weimar
2013 Chancengleichheit zum Wiedereinstieg, Bauhaus Research School, Weimar
PROJECTS
2020 Series of 12 one of a kind designs of Marcel Breuer's D4 chair in used denim for TECTA, Lauenförde
2019 BauhausNowhaus, reinterpretation of Marcel Breuer's D4 for the 100th year anniversary of the Bauhaus, TECTA, Lauenförde
2014-2017 Teaching assignment for textile design, HAW Hamburg
ARTIST STATEMENT
Working with used textiles is fundamental to my artistic practice.
I work with old-fashioned and almost out-of-date objects like antique pieces of dowry.
Bygone times have left their traces on these.
The textile material is convincing by its tactility and suppleness.
Its willingness to be transformed makes it the perfect medium for exploring how things change.