KIRSTINE ROEPSTORFF

Kirstine Roepstorff creates collages of media images that visualize existing power relations and critically deals with thehistory of political ideas, including their failure. She simultaneouslyreorders what exists and develops interrelations between themes such asloss, excess, progress, growth, and capitalism. Editing and rearrangingthe original material generates new contexts that opens up spaces fornegotiation and new narratives.

In recent times she applied the principle of collage as a method of reflection and reference on curating group shows such as “Scorpio´s Garden” (Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany, 2009) and “Dried Dew Drops: Wunderkammer of Formlessness” (Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland, 2010).

Recent solo exhibitions include “Kirstine Roepstorff. Wunderkammer of Formlessness” at Museum of Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway; “Illuminating Shadows” at Peres Projects in Berlin (2010); The Inner Sound that Kills theOuter at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Leon, Spain (2009); The EndWas Yesterday at Kunstraum Innsbruch + Galerie in Switzerland and at theAutocenter + Galerie im Regierungsviertel in Berlin (2008); and It’sNot the Eye of the Needle That Changed–The Time at the Drawing Center inNew York City (2007). Selected group exhibitions include PersonalProtocols and Other Preferences at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,New York (2008); The Triumph of Painting: Germania at the SaatchiGallery, London (2008); Fit to print at the Gagosian Gallery, New York(2007); and Fantastic Politics at The National Museum of Art, Oslo(2006).

Kirstine Roepstorff is represented by Peres Project in Berlin and the Galleri Christina Wilson in Copenhagen. She lives and works in Berlin.

Text courtesy Patricia Low Contemporary.