The artwork is an abstract drawing with an object-like quality. It consists of white paper, which is transformed into a three-dimensional drawing solely through precisely placed folds. The effect of this minimalist work changes depending on the light and perspective.
Artist: Antje Blumenstein
Title: lines, Edition 02
Year: 2025
Material: Paper, folded
Size: 21 x 28.2 cm
Edition: 15 + 2 AP
signed, numbered, and dated on the reverse
framed by the artist
Due to its fragility, we offer this edition framed by the artist herself.
Antje Blumenstein
Antje Blumenstein has an extremely diverse artistic practice. She explores materials and their properties, and in this context, the interplay and boundaries of line, surface, and space. She chooses paths of extreme reduction, resulting in works such as folded papers, monumental spatial installations made of neon acrylic glass, and site-specific objects made of PE film.
Exhibitions (selection)
Her work has been presented in over 100 group and solo exhibitions both in Germany and abroad, including:
2025 Maximum Minimum, Agathenburg Castle
2025 Concrete Women, New Spaces, Ahlen Art Museum
2020 Antje Blumenstein - tactics of lines, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg
2018 Own use, Uferhallen Berlin
2017 cross straight and turn around ..., Kunsthaus Erfurt (Solo)
2010 Kunstkammer No. 7, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (solo)
2008 half of the sky, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
2007 We Have No Problems, Kunsthalle Bergen, Norway
2000 unsquare dance, Galerie Eigen&Art, Leipzig
Studies
1994 - 1994 Graphic Design, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
1994 - 1997 Painting, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
1999 Graduated as a master student under Prof. Eberhard Bosslet
Prizes and scholarships (selection)
2021 Residency grant from the Wiepersdorf Castle Cultural Foundation
2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2005-06 studio scholarship Backfabrik Berlin
2001 Artist-in-Residence, Columbus, Ohio, USA
1999 Robert Sterl Prize of the Dresden Collective Foundation
Collections
Dresden State Art Collections, Art Fund, Grauwinkel Collection, Berlin; Schroth Collection, Soest; Hanten-Schmidt Collection Cologne/Dresden/Vienna, Krieger Collection, Berlin, etc.
Publications & further information (selection)
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Portrait Antje Blumenstein by Max Philippi.
