Hanna Kaminski
lives and works in Berlin
In Hanna Kaminski's works, the picture support resembles a landscape of iridescent colour applications in which the forms are created by overlapping layers of paint. The paintings present an open, surreal and cartoonesque visual language. Always on the edge of the recognisable, the already seen, the forms elude any overly quick interpretation. For Hanna Kaminski, the medium of painting is a means of dissolving initial, motivic ideas and developing her own formal language. Random moments in the working process require her active, conscious reaction and keep the creation of her paintings in constant, productive tension. It is not only the motif that tells the story, but also the medium itself. Traces of overpainted layers speak of time and the process of her work.
Text by Miriam Schwarz (2024):
In her minimalist paintings, Hanna Kaminski allows us to experience how the interplay of color and form develops a vocabulary all of its own. Layer by layer, she explores the tense relationship between colors and shapes, decodes and playfully reassembles it in her own artistic alphabet.
Text by Carolin Kralapp (2023):
Hanna Kaminski applies layer upon layer of colours to the canvas, which take over the painting surface in iridescent forms and unfold in open shapes. Sometimes undefined, sometimes very clear forms come up against permeable brushstrokes that allow associations with figuration but do not impose themselves strictly. Hanna Kaminski examines initial motivic ideas in terms of what remains when we forget what we are doing. In doing so, she uses the medium of painting as an aid to detach herself more and more from initial ideas in the working process.
The forms and colours she finds are in constant coherence in her works, are interdependent and in a tangible relationship of tension that unites both poles on the canvas. A liberating lightness and enormous power are revealed, which enter into a symbiosis. Hanna Kaminski uses painting specifically to visualise a working process, revealing new layers of paint and releasing forms that were not yet firmly inscribed in the work at the beginning.
The artist visualises a playful and explorative artistic process, which we as viewers can follow with excitement on the canvases.
Biography
1988
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born in San Francisco, USA
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2018-21
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Studied painting/graphics at the HGB Leipzig |
2019
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Nomination art prize junger westen 2019, painting, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen |
2019-21
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Class for painting/graphics of Prof. Michael Riedel at the HGB Leipzig |
2020
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Nomination Armin Sandig Prize 2020, Freiheitshalle Hof |
2021
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Finalist for the Hans Purrmann Prize of the City of Speyer for Fine Arts 2021, Speyer |
2021-23
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Painting class of Prof Valérie Favre at the UDK Berlin |
2023
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Master student at the UDK Berlin with Prof Valérie Favre |
2024
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Nomination for the Losito Art Prize 2024, Losito Kressmann-Zschach Foundation, Berlin |
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2025 | Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (G) |
2024 | Glimpse, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (S, online) sweet spot, Galerie Met, Berlin (G) structure of feeling, STUDIO4BERLIN, Galerie Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin (S) |
2023 | Art Auction 11, weserhalle, Berlin (G) instance of sharing: b, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Nürtingen (G) instance of sharing: a, Galerie Brutal, Hannover (G) ART MATTERS 8, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (G, online) Ketterer Kunst Masterclass Preis 2023, Munich (G) |
2022 | Klasse Valérie Favre Berlin (Teil II), Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (G) enter the limelight, Raum für Sichtbarkeit, Berlin (G) excuse me, where is the rabbit hole?, Luftschutzbunker Kaiserdamm, Berlin (G) soft grid, studio Hanniball, Berlin (G) Zirkus, Ausstellung der Klasse Valérie Favre, Villa Grisebach, Berlin (G) |
2021 | optotype, p145, Berlin (G) Ausstellung zum Hans Purrmann Preis der Stadt Speyer für Bildende Kunst 2021, Speyer (G) Pulling & Opening, p145, Berlin (G) ca boo dle, Bistro 21, Leipzig (G) lauf, mickey!, Soloausstellung, Galerie Josef Filipp, Spinnerei Leipzig (G) Armin Sandig Preis, Freiheitshalle Hof, Hof (G) |
2020 | featured in #takingoverkunsthallehh @hamburger.kunsthalle and by @franziskareinbothe (G) Bezüge II, konnektor Forum für Künste, Hannover (G) Aus der Radierwerkstatt der HGB Leipzig, Galerie art gluchowe e.V., Glauchau (G) |
2019 | unsere meinung, Klassenausstellung, Brühl, Leipzig (G) Kunstpreis junger westen 2019, Malerei, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen (G) Mehrzahl, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig (G) |