Kirstin Arndt

In Space

Kirstin Arndt Untitled Wood, acrylic paint

(90 x 95 x 2 cm) (113 x 114 x 3 cm) 2021

2 September - 8 October 2022

Green On Red Gallery would like to welcome you to Kirstin Arndt’s exhibition In Space in Spencer Dock, Dublin 1, opening Friday, 2 September, 2022. In Space is the artist‘s second solo exhibition in Green On Red Gallery in which the artist pushes and pulls her materials in ways that can appear counter-logical, random and chaotic. In fact, by following a radically simple or intuitive rule in the mechanics of the installation - hung from the ceiling, fixed to the wall or straddling the bare floor like a leftover cut-off or over-sized drape - her works in In Space are ingenuously site-specific and playfully material specific at the same time.

Nothing is added. Arndt works with the material in its found form.

In the fall of tarpaulin, the lightness of the wooden rods, the weave of the felt and the razor-sharp bent metal, we see the unremarkable industrial gesture majestically into space or across the flat. The materials have a featurelessness in common but in In Space they soar, they shoot and they buckle in space-defying – sometimes space-defining – ways, altering the coordinates of the room and the viewers sense of scale and location.

Kirstin Arndt Untitled PVC, magenta, 4 eyelets, 4 closures

115 x 115 x 26 cm 2022

Photo: Fionn McCann

Kristin Arndt Untitled Handmade anodized aluminium rings, black elastic cord, steel hook (foreground)

459 x 270 x 157 cm 2020

Photo: Fionn McCann

Kirstin Arndt Untitled Cardbord, polyethylene rope

(70 x 24 x 1,5 cm) (76,5 x 24 x 2 cm) (94 x 24 x 3 cm) 2018

Photo: Fionn McCann

Kirstin Arndt Untitled PVC, 2 brass eyelets, 1 lock

76 x 69 x 29 cm 2021

Photo: Fionn McCann

Kirstin Arndt Untitled PVC, 1 brass eyelet, black elastic cord, steel hook ( foreground )

459 x 285 x 300 cm 2022

Photo: Fionn McCann

Kirstin Arndt Untitled Felt

38 x 30 cm 2019
Photo: Jörk Hettmann

A bolt of yellow is found in her Untitled ( Yellow ) tarpaulin square. Her floating, glowing light installations open and close the exhibition on the two largest walls in the gallery with increasing effect as the daylight in the gallery fades daily. In Space takes on the architecture, harnesses the architecture and, with a lightness and deftness creates dramatic interplays of colour and light, mass and line that can lift you to another, larger dimension.

Arndt's light installations are made both for indoor and outdoor locations.

Writing on the artist's LED installations, Gregor Jansen, Director of Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf says :

"…The use of LED lights stands for modern light usage. Arndt deploys new materials and the current stage of technological development for her artworks, since their specifications best meet her requirements. It was the pioneers of light art and light kinetics at the beginning of the 20th century, such as Zdeněk Pešánek und László Moholy-Nagy, who used their era’s newest materials like neon, chrome, plexiglas or perforated metal plates, so as to undertake experimental investigations with light, with forms and materials. And almost at the same time the Constructivists, such as Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner, whose work immediately showed that constructive origins and progressions were developed on the drawing board by these two sculptors armed with an engineering or mathematical background. The idea at the time was to calculate and design the world and the society of the future as a configuration in space. …"
Translated Excerpts from the catalog "Westwand"

In Space continues at the gallery until the 8th of October 2022.

Kirstin Arndt was born in Otterndorf/Niedersachsen and lives & works in Düsseldorf, Germany. She has previously exhibited with Green On Red Gallery in Material Pleasures 2004, Future 2017, our 2019 Summer Show, New Beginnings 2018 and her solo show Tight Corners, Loose Lines2018