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Angela Kaisers


Visual Artist

Artworks

In her artworks Angela Kaisers reflects on the world we live in, people’s behavior, structures of power and situations of emotional conflict. She composes new narratives based on her findings and creates paintings, large scale embroideries, photographic artworks and installations.


A Question of Noise

In A Question Of Noise Angela dissects scenes from animated cartoons, creating abstract collages that explore the female gaze, the end of the patriarchy, and female empowerment.

Paintings
Acrylic on cotton canvas
180 cm x 180 cm x 4cm / 130 cm x 180 cm x 4cm


As the World Turns

In As The World Turns Angela combines scenes from animated cartoons with photographs of the world we actually live in. These painted collages produce new narratives that feel so wrong but also so true. They stimulate emotions ranging from laughter to pain, from amusement to sorrow - questioning one‘s own standards and hypocrisies.

Paintings
Acrylic on cotton canvas
40 cm x 50 cm x 4 cm - 100 cm x 100 cm x 4cm


Echoes

In the series Echoes Angela looks at structures of power in past and current events. She is especially interested in how we subjectively distribute and perceive such information. How collective memory is created and develops over time and how easily it can be manipulated. By applying slight changes to the positioning of the observed people on photographs she found on the internet, Angela modifies their interpersonal distance and hereby manipulate the messages these photos were supposed to transmit.

Machine embroideries
Rayon thread on cotton fabric
120 cm x 90 cm x 4 cm



Blue

In the series Blue Angela pairs photographs found on royalty free image platforms with iconic scenes from classic cartoons, creating wall installations that reflect on ocean-human relationships: from refugee ocean crossings to plastic pollution and mass tourism.

Photographic wall installations
Poster prints
210 cm x 160 cm


bald

The installation bald is based on six popular fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm and discusses the transfer of stories, knowledge and morals. Additionally it takes a critical stand against the way women are portrayed in these narratives. When analyzing the content of the six fairy tales (The Frog Prince, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood) it becomes apparent that the basis for all of them is a state of “waiting”. For something, for someone, for an event. In bald Angela breaks down the stories' contents, reduces them to this notion of waiting and thereby highlights and criticizes the moralistic and gender stereotypical elements they purport.

Mixed media installation
Text stitched on fabric, text typed on paper, birch trees, thread, shipping container
595 cm x 200 cm x 220 cm


Constellation

In Constellation (Dreams, 2007.) Angela takes her observations and own experiences of interpersonal relationships to the unconscious level: transcribing and interpreting her dreams. Over the period of a whole year (2007) she recorded 395 dreams. Now, years later – with the necessary emotional distance – she takes a rational look at those recordings and analyzes them. In order to do so she created an extensive chart which displays each single recurrence of the 38 most prominent and intriguing main characters and symbols in all of the 395 dreams. The installation Constellation (Dreams, 2007) is composed of this chart, interpretations, and fragments from exemplary dreams.

Mixed media installation
Wood, nails, thread, text typed on paper
Variable dimensions


Christel

Basis for Angela’s art project Christel is an extended research (especially historical, social and psychological) that allows her to create and re-enact the life and behavior of the fictitious character Christel Rosenberg. Using a broad variety of media, including photographs, video, sound, writing, performance, and found objects, she not only visualizes Christel’s life story but invites the viewer to take part and experience it as well.

Photographs, performance & multi-media installation
Variable materials & dimensions

About

Angela Kaisers is a conceptual artist with a background in photography. Her artworks reflect on the world we live in and questions what we have comfortably taken for granted. She observes and discusses people’s behavior towards each other, in situations of emotional conflict and within structures of power. She explores which parameters appear to stay static, which habits we repeat – or try to free us from – and which variables might occur. The creative process or method of production of her works is based on researching and accumulating information and ideas, experiments and experiences and an ever-growing archive of found footage image material, all letting her build a scheme, a new storyline.Angela Kaisers studied photography in San Francisco and Amsterdam (B.F.A, Gerrit Rietveld Academie) and Art in Context in Berlin (M.A., University of the Arts Berlin).
Angela lives and works between Vienna and Munich.

CV

Angela Kaisers studied Photography in Amsterdam (B.F.A., Gerrit Rietveld Academie) and Art in Context in Berlin (M.A., University of the Arts Berlin).
She lives and works between Vienna and Munich.
Solo Shows/ 2- and 3-Person Shows2022
Slow Burn | solo show
Salon Miller, Munich, Germany
2020
Intimacy in the Time of Distance | 3-person show | cancelled due to covid-19
b-part, Berlin, Germany
2017
Treading in the Footsteps of Power and Powerlessness | 3-person show
Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, Germany
2015
Contain [era] - Bald | solo show | traveling exhibition
Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna, Rome
Dreams, 2007 | solo show
Kleiner Salon, Berlin, Germany
2014
Untitled (Dreams, 2007) | solo show
Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany
Out of Love with Love - Units of Measurement | 2-person show
Kleiner Salon, Berlin, Germany
Group Shows2023
Falling | upcoming
Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, Germany
2019
Open Day
Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
Pop Up Show #6
The Ballery, Berlin, Germany
2018
LUCKY
nGbK, Berlin, Germany
Zwischen den Gipfeln
PremArts, Berlin, Germany
2017
Pop Up Show #1
The Ballery, Berlin, Germany
The Sprawls
GlogauAir, Berlin, Germany
2016
Tote Tauben Turteltauben
Kurt-Kurt, Berlin, Germany
Labor or Labor
GlogauAir, Berlin, Germany
The Inherent Power of Turning the Other Cheek
Kleiner Salon, Berlin, Germany
Art fairs2017
Hybrid
Room Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
2016
Verano del 2000
S.A.CO, Seville, Spain
Grants2020
Kulturprojekte Berlin
Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
Residencies2015
Pala Fruits – The Laboratory
Zona Dynamics, Berlin, Germany
2014
artisticDialogue
Berlin con mucho Arte, Berlin, Germany

Contact

Angela Kaisers+49 176 98592042
angela.kaisers@gmail.com

Blue


Story 1

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Story 2

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Story 3

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Story 4

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Photographic wall installations
Poster prints

Story 1
210 cm x 160 cm
Story 2
210 cm x 160 cm
Story 3
210 cm x 160 cm
Story 4
210 cm x 160 cm

A Question of Noise

Paintings
Acrylic on cotton canvas

Episode 1
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 2
180 cm x 130 cm x 4 cm
Episode 3
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 4
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 5
180 cm x 130 cm x 4 cm
Episode 6
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 7
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 8
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 9
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm
Episode 10
180 cm x 180 cm x 4 cm

As The World Turns

Paintings
Acrylic on cotton canvas

Nip It in the Bud (Aristocats feat. Tin Foil Hat)
80 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm
Wild Accusations (The Sword in the Stone feat. Wildfire)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
I Can't Believe I Still Have to Protest This Shit (The Jetsons feat. Protest Sign)
100 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
White Trash (The Jetsons feat. Confederate Flag)
80 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
Paint It Black (The Pink Panther feat. Robert E Lee Monument)
100 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
Three Strikes, You're Out (Looney Tunes feat. Drone)
80 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
The New Normal (Rabbit Fire feat. Cop)
50 cm x 40 cm x 4 cm
BTDT (The Yogi Bear Show feat. Neo-Nazi)
60 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
Hasenfuss (Rabbit Fire feat. Cologne, 1945)
80 cm x 100 cm x 4 cm
The Very Moment You Realize This Was a Bad Idea (Robin Hood feat. Resistance Fighter)
80 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
Down the Rabbit Hole (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh feat. Statue of Liberty)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
Old White Men (Alice in Wonderland feat. Greta Thunberg)
70 cm x 50 cm x 4 cm
Freedom Chicken (The Looney Tunes feat. KFC)
80 cm x 100 cm x 4 cm
Trick or Treat (The Jungle Book feat. Julian Assange)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
Every Breath You Take (Lady and the Tramp feat. Security Cameras)
80 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm
A Mother's Pride (Cinderella feat. Child Beauty Queen)
50 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm
In the Comfort of Your Home (101 Dalmatians feat. 9/11 Rescue Dog)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
How Not to Be Responsible for Anything in Your Life. Ever. (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh feat. Magic 8 Ball)
70 cm x 50 cm x 4 cm
The Californians (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feat. Maid)
100 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
Hypocries (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feat. Cecil the Lion)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
Dystopia (Robin Hood feat. Syria)
80 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm
The Disadvantages of a 100 Year Long Sleep (Sleeping Beauty feat. Bill Cosby)
80 cm x 100 cm x 4 cm
Lost (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feat. Shopping Cart)
100 cm x 100 cm x 4cm
Linda's Changing the World (The Jetsons feat. Chicken Coop)
80 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm
The Advantages of a 100 Year Long Sleep (Sleeping Beauty feat. Pandemic)
80 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
2020 Went Rather Well (Mickey Mouse feat. Pandemic)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
Intimacy in the Times of Distance (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feat. Pizza Delivery Guy)
100 cm x 80 cm x 4 cm
If Women Ruled the World (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs feat. RBG)
50 cm x 40 cm x 4 cm
Neue Männer Braucht das Land (Robin Hood feat. Bernie Sanders)
50 cm x 40 cm x 4 cm
Freedom Fries (The Jungle Book feat. Fast Food)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
Wut (Aristocats feat. 10 Downing St)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm
The Side Effect of German Manufacturing (The Road Runner Show feat. The Berlin Wall)
100 cm x 70 cm x 4 cm

bald

Mixed media installation
Text stitched on fabric, text typed on paper, birch trees, thread, shipping container

595 cm x 200 cm x 220 cm

Constellation

Mixed media installation
Wood, nails, thread, text typed on paper

Variable dimensions

Christel

Photographs
Staged self-portraits & performance documentation
Laserprints

Variable Dimensions


Multi-media installation
Including self-portraits, photographs, handwriting, embroideries, videos as well as found footage materials, photographs & sound

Variable dimensions

Imprint

Angela Kaisers
Kramerstrasse 31
82061 Neuried
Germany

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