NADA New York 2024: Find us at Booth 1.03

We are thrilled to announce that we will be participating in the 10th edition of NADA New York! 

Rutger Brandt Gallery proudly presents a captivating  exhibition featuring three artists; Steffen Kern, Bastien Pery and Jan Khulemeier. 

For Bastien Pery, the artistic journey is deeply personal, drawing inspiration from family photographs and museum artifacts that evoke a profound sense of intrigue. These visual cues resonate with his family history, French identity, or homeland, offering his audience a glimpse into the intimate layers of his narrative. The original photographs are transformed and manipulated using software into black and white, hazy, dreamlike adaptations. They exist as distant mirages, intentionally altering the integrity of the original photographs, much like memories worn by the passage of time. Pery invites viewers to contemplate the fleeting nature of time, the role of images in preserving memory, and notions of identity.

In contrast, Steffen Kern offers a different perspective on the power of images. His focus lies in exposing our subconscious reception of images that have become ingrained in our memory due to the constant barrage of media in our daily lives. Responding to this overflow, Kern skillfully blurs the lines between recognizable drawings and masked photographs. He recreates photographic aesthetics of blurring, depth of field, and overexposure with colored pencils. By disguising his drawings as photographs, he cleverly lures the viewer into a visual trap. His subjects are constructed without using photographic or real-life references, instead, seeking images in his mind that appear to be part of our collective pictorial memory. His drawings are familiar yet uncanny, revealing the haunting power of images that are ubiquitous in modern life. 

Dates: 2–5 May 2024

Location: 548 West, 22nd Street in Chelsea, New York