Katrin Brause DE, b. 1972

Katrin Brause is a notable representative of the New Leipzig School. She studied at the Leipzig academy of fine art HGB with Arno Rink and Neo Rauch. Her solo exhibition ›Speranza‹ brings together 19 works whose spatial and aesthetic context is once again the city of Catania in Sicily. From this social-cultural space, Katrin Brause transfers everyday objects as well as arrangements found in the streets — especially the role of faith in people's everyday lives — into contemporary painting. In doing so, Brause creates exceedingly present and multi-layered still lifes, which in turn function as profound allegories of human biographies, human ideas, human thought and action. The objects depicted, such as weathered chairs or used fruit crates, as well as their sceneries, appear banal at first, while their transformation into painting creates thoroughly ambivalent statements.