Born in Berlin, Kim Bartelt trained in Fine Art at Parsons School of Design, New York. After painting sets for commercial campaigns, she began to collect the discarded sheets of paper used in the set designs. She slowly began incorporating them into her art practice, making impossibly light, minimal collages that, through their delicate translucence, appeared to transcend their own materiality.
Drawing on the language of geometric abstraction, Bartelt’s work mediates on the ephemerality of our world and the hidden connections of contemporary human experience. Her use of a consciously restrained visual vocabulary, consisting of squares and rectangles, harnesses complex emotional states into seemingly controlled, harmonious compositions. Creating canvases that may at first appear solitary and silent, through contemplative engagement, reveal a pulsing inner landscape that captures the often fragile connection between the seen and the unseen, the permanent and transient.
There is an inherent dichotomy in her work as it strives for a sense of compositional order and stability, whilst being filtered through the intensely personalised dominion of their creator. In recent years, Bartelt’s explorations of space and volume have continued into large-scale sculptural works – megalithic-feeling structures that are often made of deceptive, light-weight packing material.
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All in, 2023paper and pastel on linen150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Armour I, 2023cardboard, papier-mâché and pigmentH 197cm x W 88cm x D 49cm
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Caught up, 2023paper and pastel on linen150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Ceramic, 2023ceramic sculptureH 36cm x W 28cm x D 26cm
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Dusk till dawn, 2023paper and pastel on linen150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Early on, 2023paper and pastel on linen150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Easy, 2023paper and pastel on linen150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Flipside, 2023paper, pastel, oil pastel, linseed oil and pigment on linen150cm x 120cm (59" x 47")
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Got you covered, 2023paper and pastel on linen60cm x 50cm (24" x 20")
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Here & there, 2023paper and pastel on linen60cm x 50cm (24" x 20")
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Pillar I, 2023cardboard, papier-mâché and pigmentH 135cm x W 47cm x D 38cm
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Pillar II, 2023cardboard, papier-mâché and pigmentH 180cm x W 62cm x D 41cm
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Kim Bartelt
Break Easy 17 May - 30 Jun 2023 Milan -
Through The Walls
Group Exhibition 17 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 London -
Kim Bartelt
Stillleben 25 Jan - 19 Feb 2022 LondonCadogan Contemporary are excited to announce a new solo exhibition of works by Berlin based German artist Kim Bartelt. Having trained in painting at the Parsons School of Design, Bartelt...Read more -
Invisible Subjects
Kim Bartelt, Laurence Leenaert and Tycjan Knut 2 - 20 Mar 2020 LondonCadogan Contemporary is delighted to present Invisible Subjects, a group exhibition that brings together new work by Kim Bartelt, Tycjan Knut and LRNCE. The exhibition explores the idea of paintings...Read more
Currently based in Berlin, Bartelt completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in New York, and has since regularly exhibited in group and solo shows in Chicago, Berlin, Paris, and London. Her works have been shown at the Berliner Liste Art Fair with Galerie LackeFarben and have been featured in numerous publications. She has been represented by Cadogan Gallery since 2020.
Education
1998 | Parsons The New School of Design, New York - BFA in Fine Arts |
1994-95 | Parsons The New School of Design, New York - Foundation Year |
1992-94 | Icart, Institute des Carrières Artistiques, Paris - Studies of Art History and Art Management |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 | 'Stillleben', Cadogan Gallery, London |
2017 | 'Paper', Hettler.Tullmann, Berlin |
2016/15 | 'A fleur de peau', Galerie Lacke&Farben, Berlin |
2013 | 'Right Here', Galerie Lacke Farben, Berlin |
2000 | 'Wintertales', Solo Exhibition, Villa d'Este, Como, Italy |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
2020/21
2019 |
Art Herning with Bjorn Gundorph Gallery, Herning, Denmark 'An Endless Curve-Art Perspective III', Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin
Studio Ima, Mexico City, Mexico 'Moving Traces 04', Atelier Ecru Gallery, Ghent, Belgium GIFC at Hotel Paris, Berlin. Organised by ZeroZero Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
Blankartobjects, San Francisco |
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2018 | Amélie, Maison d'Art, Paris |
2014/13 | Berliner Liste, Discovery Art Fair, Galerie Lacke&Farben, Berlin |
1998 | Parsons School of Design Gallery, New York |
1996 | Parsons School of Design Gallery, Paris |
Artist Residencies
September 2019 | Joya, Almería, Spain |
March/April 2019 | Numeroventi, Florence, Italy |
Publications
Sight Unseen, December 2019, Jill Singer, https://www.sightunseen.com/2019/12/kim-bartelt-x-yellownose-baldon-berlin/
Sight Unseen, October 2019, Malin Ebbing, https://www.sightunseen.com/2019/10/berlin-home-tour-german-artist-kim-bartelt-paper-paintings/
FoA, February 2019 https://www.friendoftheartist.com/store/volume8
Tagesspiegel, June 2013, Friederike Höll, https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/ohne-ende/8389776.html
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KIM BARTELT | IGNANT MAGAZINE GERMANY | ARTICLE
Devid Gualandris, Ignant Magazine Germany, May 5, 2023 -
KIM BARTELT | SLEEK MAGAZINE
Sofia Driouich , Sleek Magazine , July 12, 2021 -
KIM BARTELT | THE SPACES | MENTION
Rosella Degori , The Spaces , March 8, 2021 -
INVISIBLE SUBJECTS | WALL STREET INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE
Wall Street International Magazine , January 27, 2021 -
KIM BARTELT | NEW NORM MAGAZINE HONG KONG | FEATURE
New Norm Magazine Hong Kong, October 16, 2020 -
KIM BARTELT | HUNDHUND STORIES | FEATURE
Ewan Waddell, HundHund Stories , September 14, 2020 -
KIM BARTELT | MILK DECORATION MAGAZINE FRANCE
Karine Monié, MilK Decoration Magazine France , June 1, 2020 -
KIM BARTELT | ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST GERMANY | FEATURE
Tereza Bratkovic , Architectural Digest Germany, April 23, 2020 -
KIM BARTELT | HERZ UND BLUT | FEATURE
Wilkin Schröder, Herz und Blut (AD Partner Site) , April 6, 2020 -
INVISIBLE SUBJECTS | ANNIVERSARY MAGAZINE
Anniversary Team, Anniversary Magazine , March 3, 2020 -
INVISIBLE SUBJECTS | FAD MAGAZINE
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine , February 24, 2020 -
KIM BARTELT | SIGHT UNSEEN | FEATURE
Malin Ebbing, Sight Unseen, October 8, 2019