Brant foundation karen kilimnik biography

Drawing correspondences between romantic tradition and consumer culture, Karen Kilimnik's work brings a haunting and contrary sense of beauty to contemporary art. The world of the ballet and childhood, romantic painting and pop music, icons of film and fashion, signs of witchcraft, time-travel, and murder comprise an imagery that has been culled from the fairytale and recent past into an unsettling present.

In a world where the forces of nature, youth, and terror have taken awesome hold, Kilimnik's art rematerializes a quest for the romantic sublime.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2018     Carnegie International, 57th edition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2017     “Zeitgeist”, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland

2016     Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, France, presented by Le Consortium, Dijon

2014     “Psyche” at Opera National de Paris / Opera Garnier, Pari