Kalin Lindena - by Kalin Lindena & Fabian Goppelsröder (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Kalin Lindena calls her artistic interventions gestures. They are lines of movement cut into the space and twisted to form; shapes, objects, works that are also traces of her rather unusual career path as a professor at the art academy. For Lindena's work originated in graffiti. " The artist who sprays", was the ambiguous title of an article written about her in 2015. Before studying at the HBK in Braunschweig under Hartmut Neumann, Johannes Brus and Walter Dahn, Lindena was a sprayer on the streets of Hannover. And even though she has taught and led a painting class in Karlsruhe since 2014, this origin is still reflected in her artistic work. As technique and subculture, graffiti shapes her practice as well as her self-image. It's an imprint that does not manifest itself in any outwardly catchy aesthetic, but becomes particularly recognizable when one tries to understand the painterly and sculptural, installative and performative works as, well, gestures. She who paints gesturally paints in space, as in the case of graffiti. In contrast to pencil or charcoal on paper, every line sprayed inevitably becomes a movement of the entire body. And thereby also becomes its trace.

About the Author

Kalin Lindena (*1967, Hannover) lives and works in Karlsruhe and Berlin. She is professor for painting since 2014. 2009 she was awarded with the Villa-Romana-price, 2007 with the Art Cologne Prize for young art. She was educated between 1997 and 2004 at the HbK School of Arts Braunschweig, and studied with Hartmut Neumann, Johannes Brus and Walter Dahn. Since 2006 she is represented by Galerie Nagel, Berlin/Cologne. She solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Heilbronn (2008), Cubitt, London (2009), Sprengel Museum Hannover (2010) and participated at important group shows. Fabian Goppelsrö der (*1977) lives and works in Karlsruhe, since 2023 he is professor for art and theory at the Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe, a famous German institution since the 1854. Founder and first director was Wilhelm Schirmer, a landscape painter of the so-called Dusseldorf school and a protagonist of naturalistic landscape painting. Fabian Goppelsrö der had 2021- 2023 a professorship with the focus on theory at the School for Arts in Braunschweig, between 2015 and 2017 he was Feodor Lynen Fellow at the Humboldt Stiftung of dep. Germanic Studies of the University of Chicago.