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
German artist Katrin Bremermann (b. 1965) combines primary abstraction with spontaneous expression to create two-dimensional paintings and works on paper with a three-dimensional quality as well as three-dimensional steel sculptures. A careful, inquisitive gaze often exposes surprising layers: a play between positive and negative images, between the flat and the deep, brings the drawing to life. In recent years, Bremermann has increasingly moved her research to the canvas, where she joins the mainly American tradition of the “shaped canvas,” in which the painting deviates from its normal, flat, rectangular form. According to the ever-stern Donald Judd, this was exactly what was wrong with painting: ‘The main thing wrong with painting is that it is a rectangular plane placed flat against the wall. A rectangle is a shape itself: it is obviously the whole shape; it determines and limits the arrangement of whatever is on or in it’ (Donald Judd, Complete Writings). Bremermann’s practice embodies a profound exploration of geometric abstraction, in an ever-renewing conversation with herself.