CV
Sarah Kürten
Born in Bergisch-Gladbach 1983
2004–2011: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Teaching:
2015
Seminar Buchkunst/ Artist's books, Fachhochschule Aachen,
Students of Prof.in Ilka Helmig
2018
Lecture at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, Villa Aurora Residency
2019
Lecture and Tutorship at Irena Haiduks Senior Thesis Studio, Columbia University NYC
2024
Head of the advanced training in early cultural education for Kindergarten and elementary Teachers of the City of Cologne, Workshop at Artothek Köln
2025
"Live in your Head", Lecture on the use of language in Art, and titles as a poetic layer,
Class of Prof*in Sabrina Fritsch, Düsseldorf, Academy of Fine Arts
Stipendien und Preise:
2018
Stipendium Villa Aurora Los Angeles; KunstSalon Köln
Peter Mertes Stipendium
2017
Preis des Landes NRW für Nachwuchskünstler*innen
2010
Audi Art Award Rhein Verlag
Ausgewählte Einzelausstellungen:
2024
Be careful what you wish for, Artothek Köln, Germany
2023
The mind is natively vice, Spazio Cut, Bolzano, Italy
The Poem, Basis Vinschgau Venosta, Italy
2021
And the poet should not mourn the humidity of the past ages, Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne
2020
Under the illusion of structureless splendor, Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
2018
O.T. Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
2016
[shænty], Schaufenster Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Egal, Performance, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Drowning in formaldehyde, Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
2015
Intermission. A Charade In Two Short Acts, Performance at Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
Ausgewählte Gruppenausstellungen:
2024
The World, by Art Junk at Galerie Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf
2023
What we are made for, Galerie Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, Germany
Of rivers as borders, Kunst im Hafen Düsseldorf, Germany
die Grosse 23, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2022
Vor den Bildern, neuer Kunstraum Düsseldorf
2021
Pictured as a Poem, KAI10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
New adventures in Vexillology #7, Kunstverein Amrum
2020
Scrolls and Trolls, Lady Helen, London, UK
2019
20 Jahre Villa Aurora-Stipendium des Kunstsalons, Fuhrwerkswaage Kunstraum e.V., Cologne
Sie machen was sie wollen, Städtische Gemäldegalerie Boris Georgiev, Varna, Bulgaria
2018
off this play, Volksbühne Glasspavilion, Berlin
Scripts, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld
2017
Egal, theater play, Studio for propositional cinema Festival, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
Life & Opinions, organized by Galerie Max Mayer and Tanya Leighton, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
The Split, Grin, Providence, USA (curated by Amanda Schmitt)
Asymmetric Architextures , Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
2016
Von den Strömen der Stadt, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Exhibition, curated by Gaylin Gerber at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, Schaufenster
2015
Plattform Aachen: rhein verlag, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
We Are a Parasite on the Institution of Cinema, an Institution of Parasites, mumok, Vienna, Austria
2014
rhein verlag, Stefan Schuelke Fine Books, Cologne, Germany
2013
rhein verlag, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin, Germany
Folgendes, HFBK Hamburg, Germany
rhein-verlag, SSZ Sued, Cologne, Germany
La Düsseldorf, Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London, UK
Publikationen (Auswahl)
2024
Against a shadowy treeline, Selected Poems, Innumbers Publishing
2021
No84/85 Edit Magazine
Katalog New adventures in Vexillology #7, (Kunstverein Amrum, Amrum, Germany)
2020
In Numbers no 1 No hard feelings - Periodical
Intervention - a drama in three acts, Play (Villa Aurora, Kunstsalon Köln)
2018
The devil finds work in idle hands (Katalog zur Ausstellung, Bonner Kunstverein)