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

  1. 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