First of all, forget everything you know about art movements.
Of course, you could roughly classify the artist as an abstract expressionist, add a bit of Art Informel and spice it up with all kinds of current trends in contemporary painting, but that wouldn’t do Chris Kamprad justice.
The age of the artist-personality has arrived in art.
Today, the artist takes center stage and his work is a reflection of his mindset.
Art is therefore an individual and no longer bound to any particular trend.
It changes, just as the person in the artist changes.
And often the external image of both the artist and the work is misleading.
This was the case with Chris Kamprad, who I discovered via the usual digital media and was very impressed by her tremendous virtuosity of color and the delicacy of her stroke.
But as is so often the case, online reality is a dull reflection of the real world.
The first time I stood in her Berlin studio, there was a petite, almost delicate young woman showing me works of art that radiate such immense power that they literally blow you away.
My first thought was: “She’s got a big bang in her head” and this universal, unshakeable power can be felt in all her works.
She paints what is so difficult to put into words.
The truth behind it.
And if you talk to Chris Kamprad, you can feel for yourself that she sometimes looks through you or even sees right through you.
Carsten Lehmann Curator
chris kamprad
spheric drama and poem
Artist chris kamprad
- Internationally successful
- Traded internationally
Publications spheric drama and poem 163 ONE SIX THREE | art in print Verlag
“spheric drama and poem” in its purest form: Day at the lake, 100 x 120 cm, acrylic on canvas and Dawn, 100 x 120 cm, acrylic on canvas; Photo by Chris Kamprad © konsum163
"she's got a big bang"
As a link between abstraction and the vision of reality that involuntarily arises in the viewer’s mind when exploring her oeuvre, she manages to reconcile both worlds.
This is not surprising, as the artist’s development was long characterized by figurative, realistic painting and she was initially unable to make friends with the “abstract”.
This changed radically after an artistic break.
She reversed her entire painterly thinking and now creates unique color fabrics.
The theme of creation, full of drama and poetry, never lets go of the artist.
Chris Kamprad in her studio in Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg; Photo by Chris Kamprad ; © konsum163
"high as the sky - down to earth"
chris kamprad
They have to tell their own story”.
In fact, jumping back and forth between the works proves to be just as fruitful as a closer look at a single canvas – individual elements can be found several times, such as the dynamic, structuring brushstrokes that seem like a secret taxonomy.
One could imagine the ominous strings from quantum theory, which ultimately – according to one of the doctrines of physics – create our reality from vibration.
In any case, the theme of creation, full of drama and poetry, never lets go of the artist.
The artist in front of her works, on the right two artworks inspired by traveling: My Colors of Tuscany I and II, 60 x 50 cm, acrylic on canvas; 2023.
Photo by Chris Kamprad; © konsum163
Colors, inspirations, life – a ceiling in the studio reflects colors and shapes that can be found in the work; 2022.
Photo by Carsten Lehmann ; © konsum163
Photo by Chris Kamprad ; © konsum163
berlin / prenzlauer berg
2022
New World, 16 x 23 cm, acrylic on Hahnemühle, framed metal, 2023. © konsum163
"I want my painting to be subject to change - I want to be free and my paintings have to be too.
chris kamprad
New World (detail), © konsum163
spheric drama and poem
The Berlin artist in her studio in Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg © konsum163
in the studio
2022
exhibitions and bio
2023 BAAM, Paper Edition, Popkudamm, group exhibition BAAM #06, Berlin Affordable Market, Not a Gallery, group exhibition BALANCE, LAB4, group exhibition, GEDOK Berlin DEUTSCHE KUNST IST BLOND?, Galerie konsum163- contemporary art gallery, Galleria Tibaldi, Rome, group exhibition STRINGS AND STROKES, Galerie konsum163 – contemporary art gallery, group exhibition DIALOGE, artothek.berlin, Milchhof Berlin, group exhibition HELL, artspringberlin, Kulturkapellen Berlin, group exhibition NO SORROW- BORROW, artothek.berlin
2022 BEFINDLICHKEITEN, Galerie Erstererster, Berlin VOGUES’GALLERY, British Vogue, print edition 11/2022 MENSCH SEIN- NICHT, NATUR AUF ABWEGEN, LAB 4, Gedok Berlin, group exhibition FLARE UP, Galeria Azur Berlin, group exhibition ABSTRACT MOMENTS, Ku`damm 64, Berlin, solo exhibition SCHENK MIR AUS DEM JENSEITS EINEN APFEL, LAB3, Gedok Berlin, group exhibition DER MYTHOS IST HIN, Artspring Berlin, group exhibition ART CLIMATE CHANCE IV, Novum Art Basel, online exhibition
2021 SCOPE-Art Show, Miami Beach, Galerie Makowski Discoveryartfair Frankfurt, Galerie Makowski BILD EINER AUSSTELLUNG,artspringberlin, Galerie Parterre Berlin, group exhibition SIGNALE, artspringberlin, Kulturkapellen Berlin, group exhibition GAIA, Part of M.A.D.S. Milano
Since May 2020, she has been working in her studio in Prenzlauer Berg, where she creates abstract, colorful paintings.
From 1999 to 2002 she attended the free painting class with the Berlin artist couple Astrid Albers and Jürgen Sage.
The artist studied theater design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and mask design at the University of Applied Sciences in the Elbe metropolis – all in all an intensive artistic examination of historical epochs and techniques that is still influential today.
Chris Kamprad is a member of GEDOK Berlin. Her work is traded throughout Europe.
