Annet Gelink Gallery is proud to present Minne Kersten's second solo show at the gallery.
Minne Kersten is an artist based in Paris and Amsterdam, working with video, installation
and paintings. Underneath these media lies a literary approach in which she combines her
media to craft a constructed world where objects and scenes hold traces of both facts and
fiction. She speculates on how we can recall events, memories and stories, by tracing
what is lost in what remains. Her work considers the relationship between the real and the
imagined, the ordinary and the ephemeral, and poses questions about memory and
reconstruction. By drawing attention to the act of construction in both our shared real and
imagined world, her work offers a connection between intimate themes such as mourning,
loss and desire, with the collective domain of fiction, fables and symbol making.
In recent years, she has frequently used the method of crafting an architectural
environment, which reveals itself as a scenography, a film set, and subsequent sculpture.
Often informed by personal encounters with spaces, these sculptures provide a concrete
terrain to explore how a space can witness or distort stories and events. By staging
situations that embed symbolic elements such as the appearance of animals or phantom
presences, she refers to ways of how the past can leave impressions on the present.
Subjecting her scenes to chaos, decay and disruption, she suggests different outcomes of
the shared circumstance of feeling unstable, losing control and reaching a state of
transition.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at CAPC Musée Bordeaux 2024,
Glasgow International 2024, Bonnefanten Museum 2023, 16th Lyon Biennale 2022,
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam 2022, the Living Art Museum 2022, Hotel Maria Kapel 2021,
HISK Brussel 2021, Haus Wien 2021, De Ateliers 2020, among others. In 2022 she was
awarded the Volkskrant Visual Arts Audience Award and was nominated for the Royal
Award of Modern Painting. She participated in residencies at De Ateliers, Triangle
Astérides and Cité Internationale des Arts and is represented by Annet Gelink Gallery in
Amsterdam.