Käthe Kruse
Käthe Kruse, born in Bünde in 1958, lives and works in Berlin. Since the 1980s, as part of the West Berlin avant-garde trio ‘Die Tödliche Doris’ (Deadly Doris, founded in 1979/80 by Wolfgang Müller and Nikolaus Utermöhlen), she has been exploring the interweaving of music, text, performance, video, film and painting and has developed new formats that cannot be categorised in conventional ways. As a solo artist, Käthe Kruse also conceptually combines a wide variety of media to create her own artistic approach. In her project Ich sehe (I see) she investigated the interaction between language, politics and media reporting.
Käthe Kruse studied Visual Communication at Hochschule der Künste Berlin from 1990 to 1997. She was a master student of Heinz Emigholz and received the scholarship for the promotion of young talent. In 2001 and 2020 she received the catalogue grant from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin. 2004 the working scholarship, Stiftung Kulturfonds, Berlin and 2008 the working scholarship visual arts of the Senate Chancellery. 2020 the scholarship NEUSTART KULTUR, Stiftung Kunstfonds and 2021 the PeterJacobiWerkPreis – the Peter Jacobi Foundation for Art and Design, Pforzheim. 2023 the NEUSTARTplus scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn.
She has taught at the Muthesius Academy of Art in Kiel and the Zurich University of the Arts. Käthe Kruse is represented by the Zwinger Galerie, Berlin
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In Leder
The publication presents the remarkable series of leather instruments and allows us to hear the newly created sounds
