For this year’s edition of Berlin Art Week, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents Die Sein: Para Psychics Expanded (Excerpt), Kerstin Brätsch’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The Corner Space and adjacent window front are transformed through an expansion from painting, as though from living matter, into a cosmos, or organism, of its own. The site-specific installation gives shape to an immersive environment; a shared yet fluctuating encounter, both rooted in the body and moving beyond material conditions.

Brätsch’s works not only appear as though they are shaped by recursion and a state of transformation, but frequently are. Installations previously set in other exhibition and spatial contexts are adapted or reiterated in different scales and materials, reemerging elsewhere and in changing relationships. Through additional forms of translation and imitation of one medium by another, the works here also refer back to or build from another source—originating in painting—the traces of…