MSK Eastside Gallery team is happy to announce a new collaboration, with German artist Manuela Karin Knaut (b 1970 Germany). The Gallery will now exclusively represent Manuela within the Russian Federation and carry a new unseen body of artworks of the artist.
Manuela Karin Knaut’s painterly work reflects the enthusiasm of the artist for travel, the discovery of new terrain and the inevitable leaving of her own comfort zone. The often harsh reality on the streets of Johannesburg, the to German eyes unexpectedly chaotic and disorderly-seeming life in the townships, the colourful variety in the narrow alleys of Accra, the unvarnished, broken walls, the graffiti of the street artists of Brooklyn, the uninhibited, real life and action in the most diverse corners of the world: it is the brokenness, the charmingly imperfect, the frequently temporary-seeming that fascinates Manuela Karin Knaut, and which she imbues into her pictorial language and the primary idea of her location-specific and large format installations. It is the rough edges and ends of life far away from the centre, far from the average safety and comfort. The artist consciously seeks out these confrontations with barriers and the edges of society.
Selected exhibitions:
”Würde“ Gruppenausstellung, @ Villa Amsberg, Braunschweig, Germany, 2019
The Other Artfair, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK, 2019
”Come on baby light my fire“, Group show, @ Gallery Valerius, Luxembourg, 2019
”Members only“, @ Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany, 2018
”Dark Dogs and Candyfloss“, @ Graham’s Fine Art Gallery, Johannesburg South Africa, 2018
”Transparency Project”, @ Kunsthochschule Akademie Weißensee, Berlin , Germany 2018
”The Aftermath“, @ FirstRand Bank, Johannesburg, South Africa 2018
”L´invatation aux voyages“, @ La Biennale d´art contemporain de Cachan, France, 2014
”Ideal und Wirklichkeit – 60 Jahre Menschenrechte“ Ausstellung für Amnesty International @ Stadtbibliothek Braunschweig, 2009
”Päckchen für Kirgistan“ Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts in Bishkek, Kyrgyztan, 2008