About – Kirsten Hutsch

Artist Statement

My work investigates the shifting boundary between reality and representation. Through painting, sculpture, and installation, I explore how perception mediates our experience of the world—how the real and the image continually translate into one another. My practice unfolds as an inquiry into the material and conceptual conditions that shape what is seen, asking where an object ends and its depiction begins.

Underlying this exploration is a sustained interest in the ontology of the artwork itself: its dual nature as both object and image, physical reality and mental construct. By exposing the thresholds where representation collapses back into matter, I reflect on perception as a generative act—one that continuously participates in shaping the reality it observes.

CV

KIRSTEN HUTSCH
Visual Artist
Born 1974, Eijsden (NL)
Lives and works in Amsterdam (NL)

Education
1997–1998 Residency Program, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (NL)
1992–1996 BA in Sculpture, Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Maastricht (NL)
1991–1992 Constantijn Huygens Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kampen (NL)

Exhibitions & Projects

2026

April 23-26, 2026,Art Brussels booth Artnueve (BE)
Solo presentation: INTERFACE, curated by Annuschka Leung, Lille Grand Palais (FR)
External coach: Interdisciplinary Arts (iArts), Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design (NL)

2025

Solo: Visible Keys to Invisible Realities, curated by Jesús Alcaide, Artnueve Murcia (ES)
Solo presentation: NL=US @BIG ART Het Slotervaart, Amsterdam (NL)
Group: What if…, Horizonverticaal, Haarlem (NL)
Group: Konnektor, Forum für Künste, Hannover (DE)
Group: Toyota Paintings, Ruimte P60 Assen (NL)
Group: Como un Eco, Museo Arqueológico de Murcia (ES)
External coach: Interdisciplinary Arts (iArts), Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design (NL)
Artist talk at Emptiness & Infinite Space, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)

2024

Research residency at CrossYart, Rotterdam (NL)
Group: I arrived, I laid an egg, I left, curated by Oscar Florit, L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca (ES)
Group: LIFE HACKS GLUE, Berlin (DE)
Group: Authenticity of Reproduction, YACAY Studio, Amsterdam (NL)
Group: Back to Berlin, Livingstone Gallery, The Hague (NL)
Group: White, Verena Kerfin Gallery, Berlin (DE)
Duo: Hybrid Order, with Bram Braam, Burster Gallery, Berlin (DE)
Solo: When You See Me the I is Gone, NL=US Art, Rotterdam (NL)
Group: Twenty Years of GLUE Berlin, GLUE Berlin (DE)

2023

3-month residency at Livingstone Projects Berlin – (Mondriaan Fonds), Berlin (DE)
Research at Bertolt Brecht archive (Mondriaan Fonds), Berlin (DE)
Duo: In-Between Order and Disorder, with Bram Braam, Artnueve, Murcia (ES)
Group: Minimal, larc.fr, Grasse (FR)
Group: #101, NL=US Art, Rotterdam (NL)

2022

Group: Keeping One Space Clear, curated by Daniela Riech, Kop 12, Essen (DE)
Group: Eating a Vegan Sandwich on the Train While Listening to Country Music, curated by Francesco Giaveri, L21, Palma de Mallorca (ES)
Group: ‘Re-canvassed’, NL=US Art, Rotterdam (NL)

2021 and earlier (selected)

Solo: Taped Paintings, Artnueve, Murcia (ES) (2021)
Group: Idea de una Colección Centro de Arte Palacio Almundi Murcia (ES) (2021)
Group: Structures on Mars TAOP Pictura Dordrecht (NL) (2021)
Duo: Surface Tension II, with Esther Jiskoot, Pulchri/NL=US (NL) (2019)
Duo: The Threshold of the Visible, with Mark Hosking, Artnueve (NL) (2018)
Duo: Surface Tension, with Esther Jiskoot, NL=US Art, Rotterdam (NL) (2018)
Group: Phantom Limb, PuntWG, Amsterdam (NL) (2015)
Group: The Act of Painting, Schau Fenster, Berlin (DE) (2015)
Group: TAOP, Gallery Valeur, Tokio (JP)(2014)
Group: The act of Painting, Casa Sakanoue, Tokio (JP) (2014)
Solo: Scannerbed Scans and Unpaintings, PuntWG, Amsterdam (NL) (2013)
Group: Is de schilder happy? Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL) (2003)
Duo: Flash, with Georges Hanna, Archipel Apeldoorn (NL) (2001)

Guest curator: Zu den Sachen Selbst, Rosalux Berlin, incl. Elspeth Diederix, Ana Genoves, Mark Hosking, Kirsten Hutsch. Essay: The Hidden Life of Things by dr. Laurens Landeweerd, Berlin (2016)

Art Fairs