{"id":16007,"date":"2026-04-07T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=16007"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:30:30","slug":"artwork-of-the-month-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=16007","title":{"rendered":"Artwork of the Month \/ April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Leichtigkeit (Lightness)<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\nKirsten Kl\u00f6ckner<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

2025
\nWatercolour, ink on paper
\n59,4 cm x 42 cm (A2)<\/p>\n

Kirsten Kl\u00f6ckner\u2019s painting \u201cLeichtigkeit\u201d (Lightness) shows, in the left lower part of the image, the silhouette of the upper part of a head and an arm stretched upwards. The grey-blue shadow is speckled with reddish dots, which are mirrored as white, blue and black dots in the bluish background. By the colour gradient, growing darker towards the top, it could indicate a night sky with stars. Flowers or pom-pom are floating around and above the silhouette. Whilst the seemingly soft balls in the lower picture section are smaller, in a pale yellow with orange and reddish hues, they become larger and more colourful towards the top, so that the uppermost part of the image is dominated by four large tufts in green, yellow, blue and pink.<\/p>\n

\u201cLightness\u201d is part of Kirsten\u2019s since 2014 ongoing series \u201cWunschprogramm<\/a><\/span>\u201d (programme of wishes), for which she paints wishes \u201coffered\u201d by people. As part of a commission for an exhibition by the Foundation Kunstgeb\u00e4ude Schlosshof Bodenburg<\/a><\/span>, the artist travelled to Bodenburg in north-west Germany. Here she presented some of her previous works from the \u201cprogramme of wishes<\/a><\/span>\u201d. After conversation about the paintings, the participants expressed their wishes in one-to-one conversations and elucidated them to Kirsten. One wish was \u201cLightness\u201d.<\/p>\n

People may long for a sense of lightness when they find themselves in a difficult personal situation, when work is weighing heavily on them, or when, for a variety of reasons, they have lost their joy of life in a specific period or for a long term. It was evident for the artist, that lightness is to be expressed by colours and luminosity. Moreover, movement and in particular dance could create joy and with that lightness for her. With this thought in mind, she began her work. Singing, for once, she painted a figure that seemed to be dancing. Is she throwing flowers into the air, or are feather-light pom-poms floating around them? Gravity seems to have been suspended. The heart opens like in a firework of joy. Contemplating Kirsten\u2019s painting, one could feel the lightness and the experience of weight fades, at least for a moment. Hopefully, the wishing person could feel the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cLightness\u201d, along with nine other wishes from Bodenburg will be on view in the group exhibition \u201cBodenburg \u2013 Kunst mit und ohne Dach\u201d (Bodenburg \u2013 Art with and without a Roof) from 4th July until 2nd of August 2026 at the Foundation Kunstgeb\u00e4ude Schlosshof Bodenburg. Moreover, Kirsten published the booklet \u201c10 f\u00fcr Bodenburg<\/a><\/span>\u201d with the small history of the origin and pictures of the ten resulting paintings.<\/p>\n

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Kirsten Kl\u00f6ckner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born 1962 in Braunschweig, Germany, Kirsten studied sculpture at the Academy of Arts, M\u00fcnster. 1990 she opened the edition-gallery \u201cEdition Kl\u00f6ckner\u201d in D\u00fcsseldorf. Here she publishes graphics and multiples inter alia from A.R. Penck<\/a><\/span>, Sigmar Polke<\/a><\/span>, Klaus Staeck<\/a><\/span>. Besides, she offers her own multiples, paintings (as original, graphic print or postcard) and books about her artistic projects. One of her multiples, \u201cKompliment\u201d (Compliment) is our Artwork of the Month of July 2017<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Kirsten\u2019s works have been shown in many personal and group exhibitions. Moreover, her works are in several major art collections, for example in the Kunstmuseum am Ehrenhof D\u00fcsseldorf (today Museum Kunstpalast<\/a><\/span>), Sammlung Falckenberg<\/a><\/span>, Hamburg and the art collection of the Landesbank Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

In painting, Kirsten\u2019s main medium are large-sized lacquered and often vivid pigmented watercolours. Since 2012 she works on her project BeuteKunst (looted art), meanwhile consisting of three parts with different sources of inspiration. Initially stimulated by a visit in the Kunstarchiv Beeskow<\/a><\/span> (Art Archive Beeskow), she created paintings including elements of the pieces from the archive. For BeuteKunst II, she selected living persons to be her muses. Resulting are not portraits in the conventional sense. In 2014, the artist started her \u201cWunschprogramm<\/a><\/span>\u201d (programme of wishes) as third part of BeuteKunst. Friends, chance acquaintances and contacts on social networks can express their wishes. These dreams, ideas and longings find a visual expression in the thereof emerging paper works as \u201cWunschbilder\u201d (wished images). Our Artwork of the Month of March 2015<\/a><\/span> is from BeuteKunst III. Another wished image, \u201cToleranzvirus<\/a><\/span>\u201d (Tolerance-Virus) became an award for people, who are in a particular way engaged for tolerance in our society by the association Aproto. For the year 2021, the artist released a calendar<\/span> with 12 of her desired images, one for each month.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Kirsten worked on the series of \u201cEmojis<\/a><\/span>\u201d, which could broaden the limited possibilities of expression used in social media. Since the beginning of November until 31st December 2020, she publishes every day one of these images in the social media. This is thought as sort of an expanded Advent calendar. The originals in watercolour and ink on paper are in format DIN A4 (29,7 cm x 21 cm). These paintings in a \u2013 for the artist \u2013 quite unusual small size are part of \u201cEdition Kl\u00f6ckner\u201d. \u201cGef\u00e4llt mir!\u201c (I Like it) from this series is our Artwork of the Month of December 2020<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

During the pandemic, Kirsten initiated Zoom-meetings, where artists and art enthusiasts met at times every other week. The artists presented their works and projects. Topics related to art were also discussed. With the lockdown restrictions, these meetings provided an opportunity to exchange ideas and proved very popular during this period.<\/p>\n

The latest part of the programme of wishes is the series \u201c10 f\u00fcr Bodenburg<\/a><\/span>\u201d (10 for Bodenburg) where Kirsten created paintings inspired by wishes from people from Bodenburg, who participated in a presentation of her project. Commissioned by the Foundation Kunstgeb\u00e4ude Schlosshof Bodenburg they will be on view in the group exhibition \u201cBodenburg \u2013 Kunst mit und ohne Dach\u201d (Bodenburg \u2013 Art with and without a Roof) from 4th July until 2nd of August 2026 at the Foundation Kunstgeb\u00e4ude Schlosshof Bodenburg<\/a><\/span>. One of these images, \u201cLeichtigkeit\u201d (Lightness) is our Artwork of the Month of April 2026.<\/p>\n

Since 2002, Kirsten lives and works in Berlin.<\/p>\n

www.edition-kloeckner.info<\/a><\/span>
\nwww.facebook.com\/kirsten.kloeckner<\/a><\/span>
\nwww.instagram.com\/kirstenkloeckner<\/a><\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/steady.page\/de\/wunschprogramm\/posts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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