Brick Flac: A Conversation with Kerstin Braetsch

Kerstin Brätsch is one of the few New York-based artists in the New Museum's forthcoming Generational exhibition, Younger than Jesus. Obfuscating the divisions between traditional media, Brätsch's installations feature large oil paintings and three-dimensional units, such as magazine and poster racks. The posters and zines both advertise and remix corresponding paintings. This strategy extends to the collective Das Institut, the performance group It's Our Pleasure to Serve You, and to printed media—interviews, advertisements, and portraits. Conveying an amount of skepticism, Brätsch's work propels a discussion of ground and support between the artist's paintings and her work as both a musician and a performer.
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