Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS is delighted to present Bloom and Doom, the first solo exhibition by Kathe Burkhart in the gallery. Kathe Burkhart is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based between New York City and Amsterdam. Working since the early 1980s, Burkhart has consistently and frankly engaged gender roles, sexuality, celebrity, and language in an interdisciplinary practice that encompasses painting, video, photography, installation, and writing. The content of her work deals with the visual and verbal articulation of the radical female subject, through the juxtaposition of fiction and nonfiction, text and image, power and powerlessness.
Kathe Burkhart has widely exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Whitney Museum, the Venice Biennale, PS1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Museum, SMAK Museum, Kunsthalle Fribourg, the New Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, and the Chicago Art Institute, among others. Her work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institue of Chicago, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the SMAK Museum, Ghent, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Amsterdam Museum, among others. She is the author of four books of fiction, and has been published in Artforum, Hyperallergic.com, Evergreen Review, Esopus, Women and Performance, Cultural Politics, Purple Fiction, FlashArt, and High Performance, among others.