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Katrin Laade is a painter and illustrator. She uses not only brushes and pencils, but also scissors, a sewing machine, and an eraser.
Katrin Laade uses procedural methods; she has imposed them on herself, so to speak, in order to generate an interplay between control and chance or play.
Her pictures consist of many layers, as do her drawings, although the latter are erased at the end and assembled into an animation.
At first they appear almost white, but upon closer inspection the traces of the original drawing are quite clearly visible.
The drawings (and the paintings as underlying projections) address socially relevant topics, such as climate change and its consequences.
As for the painting, the most exciting moment is the moment when the many layers of adhesive are peeled off. A large part of painting is done blindly, so to speak: Is the picture successful? Are the proportions, the structure, the colors right? Has the tape left too much on or removed too much? Good paintings ultimately prove to be unpredictable.
In the drawings presented here, snow and ice landscapes have been erased, a reference to climate change, the disappearance of nature as we know it, but also a reflection on remembering and forgetting.
Katrin Laade/Angelika Trojnarski
Vita+
Katrin Laade
1964 Born in Stuttgart
1983 – 88 State Art Academy Düsseldorf, studied with Jan Dibbets, David Rabinowitsch
1988 – 90 De Ateliers, Postgraduate Studies (Masters), Haarlem, NL, Scholarship NL and EU
1990 – 96 werkbeurs, basicbeurs (FvBK scholarships)
1988 – 95 lives and works in Amsterdam, NL
1995 – now lives and works in Düsseldorf
1999 Residency scholarship in Loviisa, Finland
2008 – 2012 Lecturer in painting, Folkwang University
2004 - 2020 Lecturer in Painting, University of Duisburg-Essen
2018 Member of the producer gallery plan.d, Düsseldorf
2020 Member of the German Artists' Association
2020/21/22 “Let's go”, project grant from the MKW, NRW
2022 Restart Culture, Kunstfonds Bonn
2023/ 2024 Lecturer in Painting, graduate program, Alfred University/ Alfred USA/ Dependance Düsseldorf
Since 1991 numerous exhibitions at home and abroad
2025 Catalogue presentation and exhibition Kunstverein Leverkusen (EA), "Blurred Relations", Kunstverein Hohenlohe, (GA), "Painting in Translation"
Alfred University, Alfred, USA, (GA)
"klein klein", West German Artists' Association, Märkisches Museum Witten (GA)
2024 “Not far”, Photo Gallery Vienna, Vienna, A (GA), 30 JA, Anniversary Salzmannbau,
in the rooms of the Storage Museum, Düsseldorf, (GA), anniversary exhibition plan.d.,
Düsseldorf (GA), “Darkroom”, K101, Cologne, (EA), “Red Blue Blue”, Gallery
Art Space 21, Bonn,
2023 Galerie Kunstraum 21, Bonn “Illuminating”, (EA), “Mikado”, Künstlerbund Tübingen (EA/GA), “Node”, Red Head Gallery, Toronto (GA), “shaped canvas”, Freiraum, Düsseldorf, (EA), “Six”, Galerie Kunstraum 21, Bonn (GA)
2022 Galerie Kunstraum 21, "DAGEWESEN" (GA), "Stoffwechsel", Galleria Huuto, Finland (GA), "Traces", Galerie Martin Leyer-Pritzkow, (EA), "Die Grosse", museum kunstpalast Düsseldorf, "Sechs", Galerie Kunstraum 21, Bonn (GA)
2021 “temporary”/ “fleeting world”, producer gallery plan.d., Düsseldorf (EA),
2020 “latently present”, Künstlerloge Ratingen (EA)
2019 “damaged order”, Galerie Reinhold Maas, Reutlingen (EA),
2018 “Big Yellow”, Galerie Peripherie, Tübingen (EA), foreign matter(s), CASO, Osaka, Japan (GA)
2017 “space 42”, Robert Koepke House, Schwalenberg (GA),
2014 “from here until now”, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, (GA), 2011 “four show pictures”, WWU, Project space Philara, Düsseldorf (GA),
2008 “Trend Walls”, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (EA/GA), “unstaged”, arti et amititiae, Amsterdam, NL (GA)
2005 “glowing melon”, Kulturforum Schlossmeierhof, Gallery Volker Marschall, D'dorf, (EA)
2001 “Free Elections Fair”, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden (GA),
1997 Galerie Louise de Haan, Haarlem, NL (EA)
1999 + 1996 Galerie Wolfram Bach, Düsseldorf (EA)
1991 + 1993, W 139, Amsterdam, NL (GA)