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

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
2021

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)
2021

WISE & WALDEN, Kunsthaus Erfurt

Through Your Eyes, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2020

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