Art exhibition with works by Wismar artist Karen Clasen from 15.3. to 25.4.2025 in the café and coworking space "tisch" in Schwerin.
table presented
IN A SMALL SETTING
with Karen Clasen
ON A SMALL SCALE
Exhibition at tisch - Café, Coworking, Event
Duration: 15.03. - 25.04.2025
Vernissage: 15.03.2025, 3:30 pm
Address: Wittenburger Str. 16 a/b | 19053 Schwerin
Opening hours: Monday - Friday Monday - Friday 10:00 - 18:00
Project management: Annekathrin Siems / Karen Obenauf
Curation: Annekathrin Siems
EXHIBITION SERIES ON A SMALL SCALE
On March 15, 2025, a new exhibition series entitled IM KLEINEN RAHMEN will be launched at tisch in Schwerin, a place that combines a café, coworking space and event space. Visitors to the café will be greeted by contemporary art on a wall measuring over six meters as they enter. At a time when encountering and engaging with art seems essential and deserves a special place in our daily lives, tisch has created a place where art meets everyday life, where color values enrich the coffee, where plays of form inspire work and artistic intentions flow into conversations. Every visit is a personal gain.
The exhibition series IM KLEINEN RAHMEN was initiated by art historian and curator Annekathrin Siems and illustrator and art director Karen Obenauf.
The exhibition series kicks off with Wismar artist Karen Clasen, whose colorful, animated paintings and mixed media works immediately captivate viewers and immerse them in a fantastic world full of the sounds of nature. In her free use of colors and materials, Karen Clasen emphasizes the freedom and breadth of what is artistically possible and finds an expression characterized by moving impressions of nature, the dialogue of tension and harmony as well as contemplative grandeur.
Let yourself be surprised and get involved with art IN A SMALL FRAME in the table.
KAREN CLASEN
STATEMENT
"In my work, I primarily use the formal language of nature and the characteristics of my material to develop pictorial worlds associatively, layer by layer. My main medium is painting as well as a mixed technique of painting, drawing, printing and textile techniques. All phases of a painting take place on the respective canvas/the selected surface. For a work to develop well, it needs time. Time so that my mind can work through the forms and patterns that were initially created spontaneously. Again and again I interpret, add to and rework a picture until a coherent motif (for me) has crystallized. Most recently, my focus has shifted to experimenting with a wide variety of materials. Finding new freedoms in artistic and technical practice as well as in intellectual exploration has become increasingly important to me. A more "fearless" yet considered approach to materials as well as finding and working out new forms and motifs is challenging but at the same time opens up a wide field of new artistic expression."
VITA
Born in Berlin in 1990. Lives and works in Wismar.
2018 BA Illustration HAW Hamburg
2023 Block Collection (collection Block), Grand Elysee, Hamburg
Working scholarship from the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Featured Artist, Art.Salon, online gallery
2022 Artist column, "Sino-German Art Vol.19", Hismoon Gallery, Taicang, China
Working scholarship, Art Fund Foundation & Neustart Kultur
2020-2022 Participant in mentoringKUNST
2021 Member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists M-V
EXHIBITIONS
2024
"POSITIONS Art Fair", ART NOW Gallery, Berlin
"Von Wiesen und Wurzeln", Gutshaus Lexow, Walow (solo)
"24 für 24", ART NOW Gallery, Berlin
"Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst", Galerie hinter dem Rathaus, Wismar
2023
"Betwixt & Between" 33rd Statewide Art Show, Volkswerft and St. Jakobi Church, Stralsund
Galerie im Elysee, Grand Elysee, Hamburg
"Zu Flucht", Gallery behind the Town Hall, Wismar
2022
"Von Wegen", Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin
"Leerstelle Kunst", 32nd State-wide Art Show, Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Schwerin
"Coffee Festival Hamburg", Museum der Arbeit "Alte Fabrik", Hamburg
2021
"Bedarfshaltestelle", Kunstlandschaft 10, Kulturhaus Mestlin
"NEUE MITGLIEDER" (des BBK M-V), Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Schwerin
"Blau", Galerie hinter dem Rathaus, Wismar
"Innere Landschaften" Café Frieda, Poel (solo)
"Von Wäldern & Weite", Gutshaus Lexow, Lexow (solo)
"Innere Landschaften", Akademie der Nordkirche, Rostock (solo)
2020
"Innere Landschaften", Quirin Privatbank AG, Hamburg (solo)
"Zur Paarung bereit", Galerie Amberg13, Rostock
Kunst Offen, Kulturgut Dönkendorf (solo)
"OZ Kunstbörse" Galerie Amberg13, Rostock
2019
"Die Natur in mir", Kunstforum Markert Gruppe, Hamburg (solo)
Art Bodensee, Galerie Kristine Hamann, Dornbirn, Austria
"Sommersalon", Galerie Kristine Hamann, Wismar
"Wintersalon", Galerie Kristine Hamann, Wismar
PICTURES
"Großes Wellenspiel", oil, acrylic, linocut ink and ink on canvas, 150 x 240 cm, 2021 (diptych), photographer: Karen Clasen
"Goldenes Gestrüpp" oil, acrylic, linocut ink, India ink, chalk and embroidery on canvas, 155 x 33 cm, 2023, photographer: Karen Clasen
CONTACT
KAREN CLASEN
clasenkaren@gmail.com | www.karenclasen.de | IG: karenclasen.de
table
Wittenburger Str. 16 a/b | 19053 Schwerin
IG tischtisch table | www.tisch.space
Opening hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 - 18:00
ON A SMALL SCALE
Annekathrin Siems | Karen Obenauf
hello@imkleinenrahmen.art
