Aneta Kajzer
Photo: Neven Allgeier
Born 1989 in Katowice (Poland), lives and works in Berlin.
Aneta Kajzer has developed her very own approach to creating her paintings? What relationship can colour and thinner have with each other so that a visible image still emerges in the end? Kajzer applies paint and thinner to the canvas and observes the process of approximation and mixing. Sometimes she also shakes the paint off the canvas to see what sticks and what remains. This results in traces on the canvas that appear to have been traced. Small swirls of colour and condensations that create orientation on the canvas. The thinner creates streaks and colour gradients. Like drops of ink in water, they float over the pastel, blurred landscapes. If you could hear the colour, it would perhaps sound like Jane Birkin's emphatic breathing.
CONRADS Berlin by (Laura Helena Wurth)
Education
2011 – 2017
Studied fine arts under Prof. Anne Berning and Prof. Shannon Bool, Germany
Kunsthochschule Mainz, Master's degree, Germany
2008 – 2010
Studied arthistory and european ethnology, University Würzburg, Germany
Solo exhibitions, (c) catalog
2023
Come Out To Play, PALM, Taipei, Taiwan
aufgelöst, Galerie CONRADS, Berlin, Germany
Melt Away, 104Galerie, Tokyo, Japan
Dreams are my Reality, Sim Smith, London, UK
2022
Head in the Clouds, Semiose, Paris, France
Fließende Wesen, Kallmann-Museum Ismaning, Munich, Germany (c)
Take a Dip, Galleri KANT, Copenhagen, Denmark
It Must Be Bunnies, PAGE(NYC), New York City, US
Sind wir schon da?, Galerie CONRADS, Berlin, Germany
2021
Eine 7 wird nie rund werden, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany
New Positions, with Galerie CONRADS, Art Cologne, Germany
Heavy Water, Project room Semiose, Paris, France
Deep Blue Purple, Institut für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, Germany (c)
Eyes On Me, Project room Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria
2020
Once More with Feeling, Galleri KANT, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
WE COME FROM THE SALTIEST SEA, Galerie CONRADS, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018
Hungry Eyes, WERK, Berlin, Germany
Guilty Pleasure, Warte für Kunst, Kassel, Germany
Out of Touch, curated by Carina Bukuts, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2017
all my beautiful faces, Labor Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Germany
slightly abstract, oMo artspace, Berlin, Germany
2016
MADE IN BALMORAL, Exhibitionspace Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany
Group exhibitions (selected), (c) catalogue
2024
DISSONANCE - Platform Germany, Stadtgalerie Kiel, National Gallery Bucharest, Germany/Romania (c)
New Heavy Shit, NBB Gallery, Berlin, Germany (c)
2023
FACE TIME, Plus-One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Visages - Perspectives on Contemporary Portraiture, The Artbarn, Melbourne, Australia
all my happiness, Gopea Kunstraum, Bad Bentheim, Germany
The Studio Talks Show, curated by Malte Bülskämper, Artco Berlin, Germany (c)
2022
Silent Stories – Neuerwerbungen & Schenkungen Zeitgenössische Kunst, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, Germany
104 INTRODUCES, 104Galerie, Tokyo, Japan
Rêveries, curated by Judicaël Lavrador, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul, South-Korea
Das Eigene im Fremden – Einblicke in die Sammlung Detlev Blenk, Museum Bensheim, Germany
2021
Wild Horses, Sim Smith, London, UK
Around the world, Around the world, curated by William Leung, Woaw gallery, Hong Kong, China
Tiere des Sommers, ASPN Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Koi_Pond, curated by KVTV, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany (c)
At A Moment In Time, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
Luxus und Glamour - Vom Eigensinn des Überflüssigen, Arp Museum Rolandseck, Germany (c)
2020
*KUNST AM BAU *- Freiluftschau ohne Eröffnung, Rummelsburger Landstraße 15, Berlin, Germany
SOFT WALLS, DRY FRUITS, n/a gallery, Seoul, South-Korea
Now! Painting in Germany Today, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (c)
2019
Now! Painting in Germany Today, Kunstmuseum Bonn/Kunstsammlung Chemnitz/Museum Wiesbaden, Germany (c)
Berlin Masters 2019, Kühlhaus Berlin, Germany
Facing the Flat World, gallery MMCA Residency Goyang, Korea
They Catch Feelings, I Catch Bodies, Sim Smith, London, UK
Aneta Kajzer & Hirosuke Yabe, Galerie CONRADS, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018
ARCHIPELAGO - Goldrausch 2018, Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, Germany (c)
Tangerine Dreams - RBMA, Funkhaus Berlin, Germany (c)
Congratulations!, Kunstverein Speyer, Germany (c)
Can i be your Avatar?, basis projektraum, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2017
Strangers on a Train, filmproject with class of John Skoog, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany (c)
NEUSTART - Absolvierenden Ausstellung, Kunsthochschule Mainz, Germany (c)
KAISER NERO, Duoshow with Anna Nero, ShowMe Mainz, Germany (c)
Awards and Grants
2024
Preis zur Förderung Mainzer Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler 2024, Landesmuseum Mainz, Germany
2022
Kallmann-Preis 2022, Ismaning, Germany
2021
Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium, Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Germany
2020
Emy-Roeder-Preis 2020, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany (c)
Marianne Werefkin-Preis 2020 - Shortlist, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, Germany
2019
Stiftung Kunstfonds, working grant, Bonn, Germany
MMCA Residency Goyang, South Korea, Fellowship from the Ministry for Science, Further Education and Culture, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
2018
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin, Germany
2017
Winsor & Newton Residency, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Studio grant Labor, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Germany
Gutenberg Lehrkolleg (GLK) award for best graduation exhibition, Germany
Public collections
FRAC The Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Auvergne, France
Arndt Collection, Germany/Australia
Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, Museum Gunzenhauser, Germany
Bundeskunstsammlung (Collection of the federal republic of Germany), Germany
Da Vinci Künstlerpinselfabrik DEFET GmbH Nuremberg, Germany
New Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark
Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku (National Museum in Gdansk), Poland
Sammlung Wemhöner, Germany
