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until 22.02. | #4536ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from January 16, 2025 the exhibition MIT IHR – Explorations of Femininity by the artist Kerstin Dzewior.
Kerstin Dzewior is a painter. And she paints women. In her realistically precise paintings, she portrays the childlike innocence, the erotic charisma, the graceful figure of women. Yet the spaces in which she places her figures remain enigmatically empty. Sometimes a structure surrounds them, then it is a glow or an abyss opens up.
The women are isolated and at the same time absorbed in themselves. They play with threads, juggle with balls, draw lines on the wall or gaze into the distance. Frozen into still images of a narrative that the viewer must discover for themselves. What happened before and what happens afterwards remains hidden. But in this one magical moment, the figure becomes aware of itself. The works “Durch Sie” and “Her mind” show two women in calm certainty about their own identity. An artist can only bring this to the canvas so unerringly in expression and form if he immerses himself in the scene and finds parallels in his own emotional world.
Kerstin Dzewior describes the act of painting as breathing. “Time and space don’t exist. I dissolve myself.”
This painter finds inspiration in everyday situations – in a pose, a gesture that needs to be explored. The artistic exploration begins with a sketch in acrylic, which is painted over until it appears coherent. Only then is oil applied to the canvas and the detachment from the original motif takes place.
Courage and curiosity drive the artist, Kerstin Dzewior, to explore her thematic worlds of growing up and the search for her own identity. Methodically, she draws from herself by wandering through her inner worlds in a somnambulistic manner, critically questioning attributions of the outside world, removing layer after layer of untruth in order to get to the bottom of the most pressing question:
Who am I? And above all – who do I want to be?
(Claudia Fried)
Vernissage: Thursday, January 16, 2025 , from 7 pm.
Exhibition dates: Thursday, January 16 until Saturday, February 22, 2025
Image caption: Kerstin Dzewior, MIT IHR – Erkundungen der Weiblichkeit, Courtesy: Galerie Z22.
Exhibition Kerstin Dzewior – Galerie Z22 | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
