Artists: Ingrid Kerma

Ingrid Kerma
Ingrid Kerma
 

Ingrid Kerma

About the artist...
Ingrid Kerma was born in 1942 near Berlin in Germany. She studied Fine Art at Reading University, and took her MA at Goldsmiths College, London. She lives and works in both London and Berlin.

She has exhibited extensively in Britain and Germany and throughout Europe. Her work can be found in many collections in Europe and America as well as in corporate collections, such as Economist, London.

Ingrid Kerma comes from a tradition of artists who are non-representational and do not even employ symbols in their work.

She proves anew that painting depends principally on colour, line, form and space. and that highlighting these elements can itself be the content of a painting.

The use of pure pigment of mainly blues and maroons characterises Kerma's recent work. These paintings have a seductively deep, rich, matt surface, suggestive of velvet. The colours she uses are simply incandescent. They follow from an intense exploration of the potential of monochrome and near-monochrome abstraction, which shows little sign of losing its fascination for her.

Biography

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002 Imker, Phoenix Art Center, Brighton
  Imker, Galerie M, Berlin, Germany
  One Person Exhibition, Broadbent, London
2001 Vermilion, Broadbent, London
  Preussisch Blau, Berlin, Germany
  Kunstbau, Pussy Galore and Friedrichstasse, Berlin, Germany
2000 IMKER, Sclater Street Gallery, London
  Stiftung Neuzelle, Neuzelle, Brandenburg, Germany
  Bahnhof Gusow, Gusow, Germany
1999 One person exhibition- Broadbent at Curwen Gallery,London
1998 One person exhibition, Berliner Dom, Berlin, Germany
  One person exhibition, Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany
  Broadbent, New Burlington, London
1997 Farbfelder Farbraume, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
  Quellen der Freiheit, Wroclaw, Berlin, Lwow, Poland
1996 Klinikum, Brandenburg, Germany
  Das Magische Quadrat, Klostergalerie, Zehdenick, Brandenburg
1995 Galerie M, Berlin Marzahn, Germany
  Exhibition of Prints: Von Meditation zu Expression, Galerie am Straussberger Platz, Berlin
1994 Kleine Galerie, Eberswalde, Brandenburg
  Zeichen in der Landschaft, Kesselhaus Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
  Works on Paper, Olinda, Brazil
1993 Galerie Ursula Roevekamp, Zurich, Switzerland
  Galerie Tallinn, Berlin, Germany
1991 Galerie Ursula Roevekamp, Zurich, Switzerland
1990 Galerie Unter den Linden, Berlin, DDR
1989 Studio presentation - Chisenhale Studios, London
1988 Studio presentation - Chisenhale Studios, London
1987 Chisenhale Gallery, London
  Richard Pomeroy Gallery, London
1982 Air Gallery, London
1979 Air Gallery, London
 
GROUP SHOWS
2003 The Archive Show, Broadbent, London
  Two person show (with Pierre Imhof), Galerie am Dom, Brandenburg, Germany
  Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland
  Art Fiera Bologna, Itlay
  Art 2003, London
  Group Show, Broadbent, London
2002 Imker’ collaberation with Pierre Imhof, Galerie M, Berlin, Germany
  Imker’ collaberation with Pierre Imhof, Phoenix Art Center, Brighton (cat.)
  Art 2002, London
2001 Art 2001, London
2000 London Art Fair, Islington, London
1996 Quaternio, Galerie im Turm (with Woisnitz, Laszeanu, Ben Menahim)
  Two person exhibition; Galerie B, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt Oder Brandenburg (with Erika Sturmer-Alex)
  Terra, Erde, Earth, Galerie am Nickolaisaal, BVBK Potsdam (with Marlene Almeida, Erika Strumer-Alex)
1995 Interior ,Two person exhibition; Bedford Gallery, London (with Kathleen Mullaniff)
1992 MA Show - Goldsmith's College, London University
1991 Let Us Have Our Meaning Back, Goldsmith's Gallery, Goldsmith's College, London University
1987 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1986 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
  New Acquaintances, Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London
  Exhibition - Ausstellung Schloss, Pesch, Dusseldorf, Germany
1985 Thirty London Painters, Royal Academy, London
  The Last Wapping Show, Wapping Open Studios, London
1983 Pagan Echoes,a selection by Walemar Januczak - Riverside Studios, London
1982 Hayward Annual,Hayward Gallery, London
1982 Small Paintings, a selection by Tim Hilton - Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1981 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1979 Recent Works by Young British Painters, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
  Group exhibition, Penwith Gallery, Cornwell
1978 A Free Hand, a selection by William Packer, Art Council Touring Exhibition
1976 John Moore's 10 - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1975 New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Center, London
  A New Vision in Painting, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Centre, USA
  Northern Young Contemporaries - Manchester
 
EDUCATION
1990-1992 MA, Goldsmith's College, London University
1972-1976 BA Hons, Reading University, Fine Art Department
 
FELLOWSHIPS
1998 Fellowship Schloss Wiepersdorf,Brandenburg, Germany

 
Image Library
2002 — 'Unbounded'
2001 — 'Vermillion 2'
'Introduction' by Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger

 


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From the White Series