Kristin Wenzel, born in 1983 in Gotha, East Germany, lives and works in Bucharest and Gotha. She received an MA from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2013. Kristin Wenzel’s recent work has shifted towards public space, by imagining structures and alternative ways of dealing with it (which she often coins as proposals or models). With installations, sculptures and interventions, she tackles the implications of public architecture as both ‘memory foam’ – inscribed with its particular history – and open source structure – allowing to be strayed from its original design. In 2018, together with the artists Vlad Brăteanu, Alice Gancevici & Remus Pușcariu, she co-founded Template, an artists’ initiative and exhibition project in Bucharest. 

Grants/ Scholarships
2021

Research Scholarship, Deutscher Künstlerbund

Working Grant, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia, Germany

2020

Scholarship, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia, Germany

Artist in Residence, NAC, Nida, Lithuania

2019

Research Grant, Goethe Institut, St. Petersburg, Russia

Stipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn e.V., Germany

2018

Ruhrresidence RETURN, Kunstvereine Ruhr, Recklinghausen, Germany

Project Grant, Schering Stiftung and MitOst e.V., Germany

2017

Mobile Biennale, Club Electroputere, Craiova, Romania

Project Grant, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Germany

Artist in Residence, Bucharest AiR, Bucharest

2016

Artist in Residence, Mogoșoaia Palace, Bucharest

2015

Artist in Residence, Galerie Krinzinger, Petömihalyfa, Hungary

Artist in Residence, a room that…, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig

2013

Baker Tilly Roelfs Grant

2011

Travel Grant, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Istanbul

2010

Travel Grant, Stiftung West-Östlicher Begegnung, Wladimir, Russia

2009

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Solo Exhibitions
2022

Tausend Melodien, Installation in public space, abandoned luge and bobsled track, Friedrichroda

2021

FLOARIE, Intervention in public space, Bucharest

The Coin, Ducal Museum and English Garden, Gotha

Flesh Dance, Art–O–Rama, Marseille

LOVERS IN THE NIGHT, Goethe-Institut Bucharest

wild orchids, Galerie Waidspeicher, Kunstmuseen Erfurt

2020

TRICKSTER, Hammerschmidt+Gladigau, Erfurt

Bits and pieces of the peripheral Universe ( together with Alexander Höglund) Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts, Berlin

wild orchids, SOX, Berlin

The Near and the Elsewhere, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest

2019

Atenție, cad ornamente, SEQUENCE #1, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest

Eroilor, Intervention in public space, central station Loerrach, Germany

IN IN THE THE FUTURE FUTURE, National Theatre Marin Sorescu, Craiova

2018

IN IN THE THE FUTURE FUTURE, ElectroPutere Gallery, Craiova

chapter 8, CNTRM, temporary project space, Berlin

2017

nothing, Sightfenster, Cologne

Model for a Pavilion #2, Intervention in public space, Bucharest

2016

Angst, Studio Mogoșoaia Palace, Bucharest (C)

Oh Paradís, Kunstraum Praline, Leipzig

Palma, Kunstraum Unten, Bochum

2015

The Gift, Freiraum Kunstlager, Lörrach

2013

Die Nacht, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2022

Worin unsere Stärke besteht. 50 Künstlerinnen aus der DDR, curated by Andrea Pichl, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien

Roto abierto Broken Open, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia

Thuringian Seductions, Kunstfest Weimar and ACC Galerie Weimar

VOR DEN BILDERN. Fotografie als Inspiration, NKR, Düsseldorf

StadtGarten Salvisberg, curated by Christof Zwiener, Berlin

Looking to Introduce Something Uncomfortable, Minerva Cultural Association, Cluj

Sehnsucht nach dem Paradies, Q18, Cologne

2021

MEANS OF ESCAPE, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany

WISE & WALDEN, Kunsthaus Erfurt

Through Your Eyes, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf

WISE & WALDEN, Kunsthaus Erfurt

2020

Frenetic Standstill, Palazzo Madama, Turin

Sports Bar, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest

2019

Display Gardens (together with Vlad Brateanu), Gallery 143, Loerrach

Remote Complicities, curated by Alice Gancevici & Remus Pușcariu, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest

2018

Studio Stage, Ruhrresidence, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen

<pre> <history> Romanian* Art Now, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest

2017

Talking to Strangers, H˚art Gallery, Bucharest

Vom Feeling her ein gutes Gefühl, FB69 Gallery, Münster

2016

Beyond the Lines, ARCUB, Bucharest

AIR, Krinzinger Projekte, Wien (C)

2015

Remote, Düsseldorf (C)

Invent and Stay, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig

2014

Stipendium Vordemberge-Gildewart, KIT, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (C)

2013

Sugar, KIT, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (C)

67. Internationale Bergische Kunstausstellung, Kunstmuseum Solingen (C)

2012

Herzhaftes und Süßes, Parkhaus, Düsseldorf

Abiogenesis, d-52 Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Düsseldorf

Land of Milk and Honey, Kunstraum Liska, Leipzig