Detlef Karsten

Detlef Karsten (born January 18, 1958 in Hanover ; † January 17, 2017 in Verl ) was a German contemporary artist.

biography

Detlef Karsten studied art education and art history at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1979 to 1985. From 1985 to 1988 he continued his studies in painting at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . After several art appearances - so-called performances - and art actions in cooperation with other artists and institutions in which he combined different types of art, the artist shifted more to painting and sculpture. In 1988 Detlef Karsten started working as a freelance artist in Wiesbaden.

After Karsten ran an art studio in Wiesbaden , he relocated his life and work to the Mediterranean island of Ibiza in the 1990s . More works were created here in collaboration with the artist Jutta Gruhlke . In 2000 Karsten opened his studio in Ibiza in an old elementary school.

Since the beginning of 2007, Detlef Karsten lived and worked in the small town of Verl near Gütersloh in North Rhine-Westphalia . The life in the rural milieu resulted in pictures of a very special expressiveness.

Exhibitions and appearances

• 1989: "Wiesbadener Sommers": project "Stadtoper 696", performance
• 1992: Annual gift for the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
• 1994: Member of the BBK Wiesbaden; Launch of an artist run gallery in Wiesbaden with Udo W. Gottfried. Dance -Theater project "Meile" (with OSM-Theater)
• 1995: Performance "Das Geläut" (with Axel Schweppe and Max Schubert ) in Munich and Wiesbaden .
• 1995: Sculptures - First works made out of wood: Performance action: Art in the vineyard of Wiesbaden (with motor saw)
• 2000: Studio in Ibiza
• 2005: Studio in Wiesbaden

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1988: "Hinterhaus Galerie", Wiesbaden (today Thalhaus)
• 1988: First solo exhibition in the basement gallery of the “Gutenberg Book Guild”, Wiesbaden
• 1989: Gallery of the Gutenberg Book Guild , Frankfurt am Main
• 1990: Bellevue Hall, Wiesbaden
• 1992: Galerie Büchergilde Gutenberg, Hamburg
• 1993: BGAG (Bank), Frankfurt am Main
• 1993: Gallery No. 9 (Kleinpaul), Hofheim
• 1994: Producer Gallery, Wiesbaden
• 1996: Gallery of the Gutenberg Book Guild, Düsseldorf
• 1996: Gallery of the Gutenberg Book Guild, Frankfurt am Main
• 1998: Wehen Castle Museum
• 1999: Kellergalerie Büchergilde Gutenberg, Wiesbaden
• 2000: Gutenberg Book Guild, Bookstore & Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
• 2000: Galerie Artenreich, Chemnitz
• 2001: Old Magazine, Ibiza
• 2001: Gallery Borssenanger, Chemnitz
• 2001: Illustrations for a childsbook: Drawings
• 2002: "Your Cube"
  • June: food
  • September – October: Wetzlar Art Association
  • November: Berlin
  • November – January: Hamburg
• 2003: Galerie Grawitz Wiesbaden
• 2006 private exhibition in Frankfurt am Main.
• 2007 private exhibition in Essen.
• 2007 Exhibition at the Kunstforum Schloß Holte Stukenbrock.
• 2008 Summer studio in the "Die Rampe" gallery in Bielefeld (July / August)
• 2010 Exhibition in the Altenkamp cultural center in Schloss Holte - Stukenbrock
• 2010 Galerie 33 in Essen, contribution to the 2010 Capital of Culture (all year round)
• 2010 Exhibition in the International Club in the Foreign Office in Berlin (until the end of January 2011)

Group exhibitions / "art actions" (selection)

• 1997: Art, exhibition and performance together:
  • Villa Clementine, "Weibsbilder", Wiesbaden
  • "Narration" in the Nassaischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
• 1997: Art in the Vineyard, Wiesbaden
• 1999: "Multiple", Webergasse 49, Wiesbaden
• 1999: Head to head, Webergasse 49, Wiesbaden
• 1999: Galerie backyard, Wiesbaden
• 2001: Old Magazine, Ibiza (with Zoulou )
• 2002: Altes Magazin, Ibiza (with Lothar Schliemann )
• 2004: Art Association Walkmühle exhibition "Chair"
• 2004: Essen exhibition "your cube" with Zoulou "Fruits and other creatures"
• 2005: Kunstverein Walkmühle: performance with Dirk Marwedel on the subject "Fire", Düsseldorf

• 1988: Project Mira, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
• 1989: "Wiesbaden Summer": Project: City Opera 696, performance
• 1990: Rebecca Gallery, Ljubljana
• 1993: Galerie Bauer Kastellaun
• 1994: Wood sculpture project, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
• 1996: Art in the Vineyard, Wiesbaden

Art fairs

• 1991: Art Hamburg (graphics fair)
• 1996: Dresden Art Market
• 1997: Art multiple Düsseldorf
• 1997: Dresden Art Market
• 1998: Düsseldorf Art Market
• 1998: Art multiple Düsseldorf
• 2001: Cologne Art Fair
• 2002: Cologne Art Fair
• 2004: Cologne Art Fair

Web links

• Homepage of the artist