Detlef Karsten

Detlef Karsten (1958 Hannover) is a German contemporary artist.

Biography

Detlef Karsten studied arts and art history at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1979 until 1985. Then he continued his studies in painting at the Städelschule from 1985 to 1988 in Frankfurt Main.After several art performances, 'Performance - and art activities in collaboration with other artists and organizations, in which he connected various kinds of art together, the artistical view moved more to the paintings and sculptures.In the year 1988 he began his work as a freelance illustrator in Wiesbaden.

After Karsten has worked at the art studio in Wiesbaden, he moved in the 1990s of the last century, out on to the Mediterranean Island of Ibiza.Here, in collaboration with the artist Jutta Gruhlke other works took place.In the year 2000 Karsten opened his studio then on Ibiza in an old Magacine, which was formerly used as a shop of goods.

Since the beginning of the year 2007 he lives and works in the small town Verl near Guetersloh in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Exhibitions and performances

* 1989: "Wiesbadener summer," project "City Opera 696," Performance
* 1992: Annual gift for the art association Nassauische Wiesbaden
* 1994: Member of the BBK Wiesbaden; launch of an artist run gallery in Wiesbaden with Udo W. Gottfried. Dance -Theaterproject "mile" (with OSM-Theater)
* 1995: Performance "tolling" (Axel Schweppe and Max Schubert), Munich and Wiesbaden.
* 1995: Sculptures First-works made out of wood: Performance action: Art in the vineyard of Wiesbaden (with engine saw)
* 2000: Studio in Ibiza
* 2005: Studio in Wiesbaden

Solo exhibitions (selection)

* 1988: "Behind House Gallery", Wiesbaden (today Thal House)
* 1988: The first solo exhibition in the basement gallery of the "Books Guild Gutenberg," Wiesbaden
* 1989: Boost Gallery of books Guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main
* 1990: Bellevue Hall, Wiesbaden
* 1992: Gallery Books Guild Gutenberg, Hamburg
* 1993: BGAG (bank), Frankfurt am Main
* 1993: Gallery No.17, Hofheim
* 1994: producers Gallery, Wiesbaden
* 1996: Gallery of books Guild Gutenberg, Dusseldorf
* 1996: Gallery of books Guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main
* 1998: Museum Wehener Castle
* 1999: Keller Gallery Books Guild Gutenberg, Wiesbaden
* 2000: Books Guild Gutenberg, Bookshop & Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
* 2000: Gallery species Reich, Chemnitz
* 2001: Old magazine, Ibiza
* 2001: Gallery Borssenanger, Chemnitz
* 2001: Illustrations for a childsbook: Drawings
* 2002: "Your Cube"
** June: Lunch
** September-October: Wetzlarer Kunstverein
** November: Berlin
** November-January: Hamburg
* 2003: Gallery Grawitz Wiesbaden

Group exhibitions / "art-action" (selection)

* 1988: Project Mira, art house Wiesbaden
* 1989: "Wiesbadener Summer" project: City Opera 696, Performance
* 1990: Gallery Rebecca, Ljubljana
* 1993: Gallery Bauer Kastellaun
* 1994: Wood Sculpture Project, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
* 1996: Art in the Vineyard, Wiesbaden
* 1997: Together art exhibition and performance:
** Villa Clementine, "female images", Wiesbaden
** "Narrative" im Nassaischen Kunstverein Wiesbaden
* 1997: Art in the Vineyard, Wiesbaden
* 1999: "Multiple" Webergasse 49, Wiesbaden
* 1999: head-to-head, Webergasse 49, Wiesbaden
* 1999: Gallery backyard, Wiesbaden
* 2001: Old magazine, Ibiza (Zoulou)
* 2002: Old magazine, Ibiza (Lothar Schliemann)
* 2004: Art Walk Mill Association exhibition "Chair"
* 2004: Essen Exhibition "your cube" with Zoulou "Fruits and other creatures"
* 2005: Art Walk Mill Association: performance with Dirk Marwedel on the subject "Fire", Dusseldorf

Art fairs

* 1991: Art Hamburg (graphics Fair)
* 1996: Art Market Dresden
* 1997: Art multiple Dusseldorf
* 1997: Art Market Dresden
* 1998: Art Market Düsseldorf
* 1998: Art multiple Düsseldorf
* 2001: Art Fair Cologne
* 2002: Cologne art fair
* 2004: Cologne art fair

External links

* [http://www.karsten-art.com Homepage of the artist]
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlef_Karsten German entry on Wikipedia about Detlef Karsten]