Surrealist Spiral

Barbara Kasten

Info: The re-enactment of the relationships between body, space and material has been at the heart of Barbara Kasten‘s installations, photographs and objects for over five decades. Originally trained as a painter and sculptor in the 1960s, in the 1970s Barbara Kasten studied under the renowned representatives of textile art Trude Guermonprez and Magdalena Abakanowicz. During this period, she began exploring the dynamics between the body and its social environment. At the beginning of her career, this was impressively demonstrated by the textile objects Seated Form (1971/72) and the diazotype prints Figure/Chair (1972/73). The body as an image-creating element remains invisible yet decisive in Barbara Kasten‘s subsequent abstract groups of works to this day. (…) Joint opening of the galleries in Düsseldorf-Flingern.