ESTHER KLÄS - 2023

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Born in 1981, Mainz, Germany. Lives and works in Barcelona.

Esther Kläs has developed a distinctive visual language which challenges contemporary sculptural norms and discourses. Using malleable materials that can be worked by hand, Kläs is an artist who maintains an intimatephysical relationship with her work. She is attentive to her inner experience as well as to external reality, and her sculptures and works on paper appear at once as mysterious presences and projections of a poeticimagination. It is only in slowing down that we notice the intuitive physicality of the gestures that shape herwork. She always returns to questions about the essence of things, to openness and the flexibility of the mind. Her sculptures, drawings and performances are suggestions of relations and relationships, of being and seeing. There is a generosity and fearlessness that goes into her work that encourages us to think for ourselves. More recently, Kläs has collaborated with choreographers and dancers to create performances and videos that pick up on the themes running through her practice.

She graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2007) and received an MFA from Hunter College, New York (2010). She currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. Museum exhibitions include The subtle interplay between the I and the me, Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany (2021); Esther Kläs: Maybe it can be different, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy (2020); Esther Kläs: Start, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2019); Proof of Life, WeserburgMuseum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany (2018);  Esther Kläs: ola/wave, Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Peru (2017-2018); Esther Kläs: Our Reality, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania, Italy (2015-2016); Whatness, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (2015); Drawing Redefined, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts (2015); Esther Kläs: Girare Con Te, Marino Marini Museum, Florence, Italy (2014); Esther Kläs: Better Energy, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (2012).

Artist

ESTHER KLÄS

Year

2023

Materials

Single-channel videopastel and graphite on paper

Size

42 x 29,7 cm

Edition

-

Gallery

Courtesy of the artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

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