Kristina Berning
KRISTINA BERNING develops her sculptures in a process that consciously remains uncontrollable at significant points, creating unfamiliar forms and connections. The artist examines the spatial dimensions of the material, she hollows it out, saws it in half, combines it anew, puts its stability to the test. Often, she also addresses fundamental questions of sculpture such as the relationship between figure and pedestal or mass and volume. Berning creates specially conceived presentations for her exhibitions in which space, sculpture and viewer interact.
biography
born in Münster, Germany
Studium an der Kunstakademie Münster, Meisterschülerin bei Professor Henk Visch
Studies at National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Irland
Award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for Fine Arts
Franz Hecker Scholarship
exhibitions
Temporary Arrangements, Kunstakademie Münster
No more Illusions, GWK-Förderpreis Kunst, (with Benjamin Greber), Museum Marta Herford
What You See is What You See, Kunstverein Greven
Two birds. a stone and a horse, (together with Ayse Erkmen and Henk Visch), Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Bodybuildings, Kunstverein Siegen zu Gast im Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen;
Made of Bricks, Gocart Gallery, Visby, SE;
Unplugged, Kunstverein Lippstadt
Back, (MIT Maarten Van Roy) Tyson, Köln
A pair is not a collection (Collection Henk Visch), LLS 387 Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgim
To Connect & To Belong, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster;
Naked Presence, Büro für Brauchbarkeit, Köln
Paarweise - Neue Werke der Sammlung Marta, Marta Herford
That`s how the light gets in, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen
Low Layer High Drift, Kunstverein Neukölln, (with Bettina Marx), Berlin
Digging Sculptures, Museum Folkwang, 6 ½ weeks, Essen (DE)
Was ist eine Edition?, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach
Portrait of a Sculpture, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach
Franz-Hecker-Stipendium, Preisträgerausstellung Kreissparkasse Bersenbrück
Salmons will sing in the street when the river jumps over the mountains, Huis Henk Visch, Eindhoven, NL
7 minutes studio, Kunsthalle Osnabrück & Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst; Hase 29, Osnabrück
silent auction, Kunstverein neukölln, Berlin
"Echo & Raukan" , Kunstverein Arnsberg (Lichthaus Arnsberg), 11. Juli bis 5. September 2020
publications
Kristina Berning, "To Connect & To Belong", published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition of the Westfälischer Kunstverein by Kristina Berning at the Galerie der Gegenwart (27 June - 26 July 2015), 144 pages, pub. by Kristina Scepanski / Westfälischer Kunstverein, Deutsch / Englisch, Bönen, 2016