SELECTED ARTWORKS
Patricia Lambertus
BIOGRAPHY & EDUCATION
lives and works in Berlin and Bremen
1996 – 2004 Studies at Hochschule für Künste Bremen, master student of Karin Kneffel
2000 – 2001 Visiting student at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin with Katharina Grosse
ARTIST STATEMENT
Patricia Lambertus creates visually powerful spatial installations that move in the tension between fiction and reality, and between beauty and destruction. The field of research she is working on is “the fascination of violence” and “the lust for power” in its medial and everyday manifestations. Within the pictorial space there are diverse layers of images. They can be read like archaeological stratigraphies, the stratigraphy with which find horizons are analyzed and dated. They are appropriations from art history, from the media, finds from the net, as well as her own images, which were created during several research stays.
For her work, it is particularly important to trace historical-social events and their contexts, as well as their relevance and resonance in the present, and to implement them pictorially. Her interest here is in ruptures, cracks and interfaces.
The installations are always adapted site-specifically. They reflexively absorb and reflect the site as a historical, medial, overall social, as well as architectural location.
She breaks through apparent reality with the means of collage / décollage. There are obvious breaks, cracks and cut edges. The trompe-l’oéil effects are openly presented to the viewer, so that he is simultaneously illusioned and disillusioned. One’s own frame of reference of immanent reality and one’s own perception enters into a dialogue with the surrounding space.
AWARDS & GRANTS (SELECTION)
2021 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA
2020 Artist in Residence, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2018 Artist in Residence, Schloss Werdenberg, Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland
2015 – 2016 Working Grant Bremische Evangelische Kirche
2014 – 2015 Excellence Program, international and interdisciplinary mentoring program for female artists and scientists, Universität der Künste Berlin
2013 Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
2011 Artist in Residence, Schloss Hundisburg
2008 Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Hooksiel
2003 Award NORDWESTKUNST, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2022
I counted the stars tonight, Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald
2021
Zweijahrtausendfern, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen
We see you, Kunstverein Buchholz, Nordheide
2020
Home sweet home, Gallery Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt am Main
2019
Trouble in Paradise, Bar K Berlin
2018
Walkthrough, Galerie / Gallery 404, Bremen
2016
SpaceX, Gallery Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt am Main
Apokalypse, Kulturkirche St. Stephani, Bremen
2014
Rapport, Kunstverein Schwerin
2013
Made in Balmoral, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
2012
Sugar-free, Kunstverein Gera
2011
Best-x-ever, Gallery Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt am Main
2010
Nothing is older than yesterday’ s news, Goethe-Institut, Damascus, Syria
2009
Tarnen und Täuschen, Skam e.V., Hamburg
2008
Pretty Caroline, Gallery Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt am Main
2006
Ausserhaus, Gallery Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt am Main
2004
Die Preisträger, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
GROUP EXHIBITION (SELECTION)
2022
Remember the future, XPINKY BERLIN
North Oversee, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
2021
Lust, Gallery Hübner & Hübner, Frankfurt am Main
Rendez-vous de chasse, XPINKY BERLIN
Art-figura, Schloss Schwarzenberg
2020
Territorien, Scotty Berlin
Stubenhocker: Post!, Gallery Roy, Zülpich
2019
Identitäten, Städtisches Museum Schloss Salder, Salzgitter
Animal turn, Syker Vorwerk
2018
WILD, Schloss Werdenberg, Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hanover
Il senso del luogo, Castello reale di Govone, Italy
2017
Interieur III – Die Außenwelt der Innenwelt, Schloss Agathenburg
The proof is in the pudding, Gallery Noah, Augsburg
2016
Homebase. Das Interieur in der Gegenwartskunst, KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Dusseldorf
There Are Places I Remember, Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
2015
Homebase. Das Interieur in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Nuremberg
2014
Ruinen der Gegenwart, Steinbrener/Dempf, Vienna
Additionen der Gegenwart, Museum Bochum
2013
IN MEDIAS RES, Forum Baths, Trier
2011
Vis-à-vis. Vom Heiligenschein zur LED, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
2010
Jahresgaben, GAK, Bremen
Gazing at the stars, Art Space Riga, Latvia
Spark, Borrow and Steal, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, USA