Kirsten Kötter
studied at the Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, at the art academies in Helsinki, Kassel and Mainz.
Kirsten Kötter works multimedia: with videos, installations, objects, actions. Her painting includes watercolor and oil. | Works | About
Protocols
The heart of her artistic work are the "protocols": Kirsten Kötter records the situation with watercolour, video and sound in nature and the city. Sometimes the focus is on light, weather and nature, sometimes on a socio-political issue, sometimes on both. |
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Protocols
Installations und videos
Installations and videos are created from the watercolours, paintings, videos, sound recordings and other objects. | Works
Kirsten Kötter has herself filmed on location while painting. In this way, she places the watercolours in their context and conveys that they are not arbitrary. Kötter shows herself in her creative work. Watercolour and film often inspire the audience to become creative themselves.
Kötter appears in her videos as a "watercolor painter". She often wears special project clothing while she paints. Sound, video films, clothing and painting offer several points of entry into the project.
Nature, socio-political topics
The choice of locations and the narration of the experiences there give Kötter's protocols a socio-political relevance. Kötter immerses himself in the situation on location. Where photography disturbs, painting usually does not. Kötter has painted in a mosque, in a state parliament, in a memorial site, in a Berlin "socially deprived" neighbourhood ... and a lot in natural spaces, even in the face of the climate crisis. Kötter acts as an individual in society, conquers new spaces and reports on them.