Minne Kersten (1993, NL) works with installations, videos, sculptures, and paintings to create architectural environments that form the backdrop of a fictional world. These spaces are often subdued to chaos, decay, or deconstruction and offer a mystic world in which something took place. Functioning as self-constructed filmsets, visitors are invited to linger and create their own narrative.
Kersten has a literary approach to her work, conducting research simultaneously through reading and making. Her paintings are at once part of a research process and outcome, often servingas a reminder for a title, word, or thought. She tells stories that reconsider the relationship between the real and the imagined, the ordinary and the uncanny, exploring themes of loss, grief, and symbolism. Instead of reproducing linear narratives, her work has its own, often absurd logic in which people, objects, and architectural elements intermingle.
She was a participant at De Ateliers from 2018-2020. She graduated from de Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2016, where she holds a BFA at the Image & Language department. In 2017 she was selected for the Slow Writing Lab by the Dutch Foundation for Literature. In 2022, she was nominated for the Royal Award for Modern Painting and the Volkskrant Fine Art Award, and was selected for a residency with Triangle-Astérides in Marseille (FR). Recent exhibitions include: Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (NL), 16th Lyon Biennale, Lyon (FR), Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam (NL), Haus Wien, Vienna (AT), Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn (NL), De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL).