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Käthe Kruse

It’s All Good Now
Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur

Between Feminist Punk, Politics, and Poetry

The artist Käthe Kruse (b. Bünde/Westfalen, 1958; lives and works in Berlin) has been a fixture on the Berlin arts scene since the early 1980s. From 1982 until 1987, she was a member of the well-known artists’ group Die Tödliche Doris, which worked on the intersections between performance art, music, writing, painting, and film and positioned itself as an alternative to the established West Berlin art world. Kruse retained this genre-bending approach and the deliberate dilettantism in her solo projects, developing sprawling installations that combine a range of media and modes of expression. Her works are often anchored in everyday objects she subjects to material alteration to endow them with new meanings. Many of Kruse’s pieces are closely bound up with personal experiences, while also grappling with larger social issues and concerns such as domestic violence, abortion, and war.

The publication, released on occasion of Käthe Kruse’s solo show at Berlinische Galerie, sheds light on the genesis of her works and performances and offers a comprehensive overview of her output from the 1980s to the present. Accompanying notes by Marie Arleth Skov and Miriam Schoofs as well as a conversation between Ilka Voermann and the artist probe various dimensions of her oeuvre.