Kerstin Roolfs
New York
Kerstin Roolfs. Artist
Kerstin Roolfs is a German-American artist whose work has addressed the themes of portraiture, sports, history and politics. Her text based work is often inspired by great minds like Plato, Goethe, Sloterdijk, Hölderlin and Adonis.
Kerstin relocated from Berlin to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1994 and to the Bronx, NY in 2016, where she lives and works. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and part of numerous group exhibitions in the US, Canada, Russia and Europe, including two museum exhibitions in Germany.
Education
2007
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Master of Education (Arts in Education), Cambridge, MA
1994 - 1996
Promotion of Young Scholars Grant (Berliner Graduiertenförderung or NaFoeG), Berlin, 1994/96 and DAAD stipend (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst or DAAD) by the German Academic Exchange Service, New York
1993
University of Fine Arts (Universität der Künste), Berlin, Germany
Master Student, Prof. Wolfgang Petrick, Berlin
1986 - 1987
FU & John F. Kennedy Institute, North American Studies and
English Philology
Collections
City University of New York /Queensborough Community College New York
William Whipple Art Gallery at Southwest State University, Minnesota
Private Collections in the USA and Europe
Exhibitions
2023/24 Renewable Energy - ‘Erneuerbare Energien’ exhibition starts at the ‘Ministerium für
Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Energie Land Brandenburg’, Berlin Potsdam/Germany on
November 1st. Exhibit travels to Erfurt, Munich and Düsseldorf in Germany and ends
in Brussels/Belgium. Curator Jutta Wiegert, Galerie Kam, Hamburg/Germany
2023 Art & Poetic Text, Cape Cod Cultural Center, Yarmouth, MA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4iNCH38nww
2022/23 ‘Sun Source of Life’ exhibit at Bergedorf Castle Museum, Hamburg/Germany
2021 In the Air, Kerstin Roolfs paintings&drawings 2019-21 at Stride Arts Gallery, NYC
opening October 28th, runs through December 2nd
2021 Pop up and pick up, August 28th in Lübeck, Germany
information at https://popup-pickup.de
2021 A Midsummer's Night’s Dream, group exhibit at Stride Arts Gallery NYC
2021 Black & White online group exhibit at The Cape Cod Cultural Center, MA
2020 Members exhibition at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
2020 Online exhibit at Truro Center for the Arts Castle Hill, MA
2020 Provincetown Art Association and Museum,Small Works, MA
2020 Online group exhibit in the Gutman Gallery/library at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education in Cambridge, MA
2019 Stride Arts Fall Exhibition, New York, NY
2019 Stride Arts Opening Exhibition, New York, NY
2019 Stiftung Starke Berlin, curator Franziska Salomon, Berlin,Germany
2018/19 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Small Works, MA
2018 Faces Exhibition at Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Nasty Woman Exhibition at the Knockdown Center, Maspeth, Queens, NYC
2016/17 Members Exhibition at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA 2016
- Silent Auction & Exhibition at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
- Silent Auction & Exhibition at Truro Center for the Arts, MA
- Clio Art Fair in New York City
2015 “Representational Art in the 21st Century”, University of Hawaii - Hilo (SAiH 2015)
2014 People’s Choice Grand Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY -
-Living in Color, Studio 5404, Massapequa, NY
-Survivors, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany
2013 Zeitgeber, Gallery Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Biennale Hamburg, Germany
2011 Mitrofana Grekova Museum, Athensart Philanthropic Exhibition, Russia
- Print Exhibit Project, Ben Navaee Gallery, Toronto
- The Big Show 6, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton
2006 Little Women, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn
2005 ARTE.GO – Feltrecontemporanea – Earth, Italy
- Eros und Thanatos, Konzeptraum 19, Berlin, German
- Deep Action, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
2004 Standpunkte, Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach am Main, Germany
2003/4 Sixty Siblings of Speculation,Paul Labreque, NYC
2002 Messineo Wyman Projects, New York, NY
- People, Power, Money and War, Citibank, New York, NY
2001 R.Liberman, K.Roolfs, Sylvia Schuster, Messineo Wyman Projects, NY
- Up To Now, LL Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Salon Show, Messineo Wyman Projects, New York, NY
1999 Mother/Earth Ridge Street Gallery, NYC
- Faces at Böhringer Mercedes Benz Showroom, Stuttgart Germany
1998 Send in the Clones, Emerging Collector Gallery, NYC
- Nuture Art, Right Bank Gallery, Brooklyn
- Daisy and her Friends, MaxFish, NYC
- Faces at S. Tschackert, Frankfurt Germany
1997 Drawings, Lorenzo Fine Arts, NYC
1996 GEDOK, Augenblicke, Lübeck, Germany
- Faces German Consulate Gallery, NYC
1995 Either/Or curated by Kenny Schachter, NYC
- Incubus Aktions Galerie Berlin, Germany
1992-1995 Drawings, Gallery Dütsch-Grandjean, Saas Fee Switzerland
1994 Nahubus, Gallery J. Fragnera, Prague, Czech Republic
Selected Bibliography
Erneuerbare Energien, catalog, October 2023
Project High Art: Link
IXInternational Painting Biennale, catalog, ISBN 978-3-9818192-5-0, March 2023
Voices - catalog, April 2015
Kerstin Roolfs - New York, 2.Decade, September 2013
1.Int.Biennale Hamburg, Jutta Wiegert, 2012/13
International Contemporary Artists Volume II, 2011
International Contemporary Artists Volume I, 2010
James Kalm, Deep Action, Kehrer Verlag, 2005
Dr. Jutta Müller, Zwischen den Deichen, Juni 2002
Joyce Korotkin, The New York Art World, January 2001
Eike Gebhard, Kerstin Roolfs - Berlin - New York - 1.Decade, Juni 1999
Ulrike Abel, Nahubek, Galerie Fragnera, Prague, 1994
Marina von Assel, Zwischen den Deichen1, 1993
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