Karla Black
03.10 – 30.10.2015
Belenius
Opening
Thursday 02.10 at 5 – 7 PM
Karla Black (b. 1972) in Alexandria, UK. Lives and works in Glasgow, UK.
Black's abstract and immersive sculptures are created through her experimentation with unconventional materials. These monumental yet ephemeral and seemingly weightless chalked paper works continue Black’s investigation of materiality and texture, and the emotions they transmit.
Her interplay of delicate abstract forms, pastel colors and surprising materials demands a physical experience and encourages a new way of not only seeing but also perceiving. Material experiences is Black’s preferred way to understand the world and communicate within it. For her, materiality is closely tied to psychological states of being.
Black had institutional solo exhibitions at Kunstraum Dornbirn, 2025, Bechtler Stiftung, Uster 2024, The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2023, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 2021, Des Moines Art Centre 2020, The Power Plant, Toronto 2018, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle 2017, Scottish National Galleries of Modern Art, Edinburgh 2016, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2015, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover 2013, Dallas Museum of Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, both 2011, among others.
In 2011 she was nominated for the Turner Prize and represented Scotland at the 54th Venice Biennale.
Black's work is part of major contemporary collections such as the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Tate Gallery, London.
– Capitain Petzel and Galerie Gisela Capitain