Kenno Apatrida

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Lives in

Berlin, Germany

Works in

Berlin, Germany

Representing galleries

WILDE Gallery

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Statement

Kenno Apatrida, originally from South America, has been exiled in Berlin for the past two decades and has been part of the city's radical creative transformation. His works, which go against the tide of aloof post modernity, are phantasmagorical, spiritual and transcendental, humorous and at times painfully genuine.

Apatrida's practice refers to philosophical precursors ranging from shamanistic rituals to the nightmares of William Blake and Henry Füseli, William Burroughs, political junk from the former GDR and Zen Buddhism. Collected from various squats and abandoned flats in Berlin, the "cultural detritus" Apatrida incorporates in his work are re-inscribed and re-positioned, undergoing an alchemical process with the results returned to us as icons of a spirituality specific to our modern age.

EDUCATION

Studies in literature, philosophy and theology at University of Santiago, Chile and University of Habana, Cuba

SELECTED SHOWS

2009
Wilde Gallery, Berlin (one-man-show)

2008
“Highway Child”, Curated by Emilie Trice, Galerie Mittwoch, Berlin
“Subterranean”, Galerie kollektiv-berlin., Berlin

2007
Heimatlose Volkskunst, Torstr. 11, Berlin
Heimatlose Volkskunst, hellrot galerie, Halle

2006
Goff & Rosenthal Gallery, New York, Nada Art fair, Miami
“Immigrant shrine – Day of the dead“, Brunnenstr 6, Berlin

2005
“pa todos tus muertos“ (for your dead),
Brunnenstr 6, Berlin

2000 – 04 Heimatlose Volkskunst, Tacheles, Berlin

1999
petite exposition du fin de siecle rue de la grange aux belles, Belleville Paris
Art populaire apatride, place de stalingrad, Paris

1998
Arte popular apatrida, Barcelona

1993 – 97
Heimatlose Volkskunst, Berlin