Kerstin Brätsch

The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Kerstin Brätsch: Die Sein: Para Psychics, at Ludwig Forum, Aachen (September 24, 2022-February 5, 2023), curated by Eva Birkenstock. 

 

"Kerstin Brätsch began making the Para-Psychics (2020–2021) during prolonged periods of self-isolation in which the artist committed to a daily ritual or diaristic routine of visualizing one’s own psychic realm. A long-standing interest in the mediumistic directly links this series of drawings to her earlier Psychics (2006-2008). While visiting fortune tellers, Brätsch was simultaneously beginning to explore the medium of painting itself, which she has continued to channel through other art forms, artisanal techniques, and collaborations since. Missing those social bonds, the Para-Psychics nevertheless symbolizes another form of clairvoyance, this time a move towards interiority." – Saim Demircan

 

This publication also includes texts by Kerstin Brätsch, Bettina Funcke, CA Conrad, and Zoe Stillpass, as well as a group of mystic text excerpts, among others.

 

Published by Ludwig Forum, Aachen and Walther König, 2022

(Currently unavailable for purchase from Gladstone)

 

Paperback
English
239 pages
12 x 9 3/4 inches; 30.5 x 24.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-7533-0297-3