Rebekka Kronsteiner at Künstlerhaus Bremen

Artist: Rebekka Kronsteiner

Exhibition title: so oder so

Venue: Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Date: December 9, 2023 – February 4, 2024

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and ©Künstlerhaus Bremen

Rebekka Kronsteiner works at the intersection of painting and sculpture. Her works are characterized by tensions between image and object, imagery and pictorial support. The artist draws on industrially produced or found materials from the urban context, such as wax, latex, foils, textiles or Plexiglas. She works with these by layering or painting them – if possible without making a personal style visible. Kronsteiner is interested in processes of incidental imaging through processing and the resulting processes of decay. The materials age, fade, turn yellow or become porous. Kronsteiner plays with expectations and attributions of value. What strategies of transformation or reorganization are possible?

Rebekka Kronsteiner (b. 1996 in Überlingen, Lake of Constance) studied painting under Prof. Stephan Baumkötter at the University of the Arts Bremen and graduated as a master student in 2023. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Bremen, Bremerhaven, Mainz, Kassel, Leipzig, and Recife. She is co-founder of the feminist cultural kiosk KOSK*I. In 2020, she ran the MMS Offspace in Bremen together with Francisco Valença Vaz.

Rebekka Kronsteiner, so oder so, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

Marie Angeletti, Horse, 2015, Photo: Fred Dott

Rebekka Kronsteiner, one way or another – relief, 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

Rebekka Kronsteiner, one way or another – relief (Detail), 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

Rebekka Kronsteiner, SM OLYMPIA I, II, VI, 2023, Exhibition view, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

Rebekka Kronsteiner, so oder so, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

Rebekka Kronsteiner, fake it, 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

Rebekka Kronsteiner, so oder so, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

Rodrigo Hernández, Summer Shower, 2015, Photo: Künstlerhaus Bremen

Rebekka Kronsteiner, Feel the Heat, 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

Rebekka Kronsteiner, Falten falten, 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

Rebekka Kronsteiner, so oder so, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

Rebekka Kronsteiner, who cares (Detail), 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

Rebekka Kronsteiner, so oder so, exhibition view, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2023, Photo: Fred Dott

KOSK*I, 2023, With Editions, Franziska Nast, *INNEN auf außen, 2023, Dafna Maimon, Mother Tonguing, 2019. Installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2023, Photo: Fred Dott