Doris Kaiser’s sculptures are concrete art and at the same time address perceptions and sensations in various aspects. Although her works are clearly calculated, they are by no means cold and insensual. These works owe their special character above all to the contrasting use of plaster and clay, whose opposition stimulates the senses to the highest degree. In her artistic intention, she clearly aims beyond a purely formal perspective intended to stimulate the process of perception, and indirectly ties in with the viewer’s potential for experience, who also associates direct personal sensations with materials, surfaces, and bodies. The analogies in her work with human attitudes and feelings, which are evoked solely by the concepts of shell, filling, protection, outer skin, vulnerability, tactility, and change, are deliberately placed and contrasted with a seemingly cool, mathematical construction. Clay becomes a “representative” of humans, who find themselves embedded in given – sometimes rigid – but always less flexible structures, where they can move, feel liberated, feel hurt, and also feel sheltered and protected again.
Dr. Gabriele Uelsberg, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
Biography
- 1958 born in Trier
- 1979–1981 Ecole des Arts et Metiers, Luxemburg
- 1981–1988 FH Niederrhein, Krefeld FB Design
- seit 1988 als Bildhauerin tätig
- 2001–2015 temporär Lehraufträge an der Hochschule Niederrhein FB Design
- 2011 Mitglied im Westdeutschen Künstlerbund
- 2009/12/15/18 Jurorin beim Nachwuchspreis “Frechener Keramik Preis”, der Kulturstiftung Frechen
- seit 1996 Kunst am Bau-Projekte
Awards
- 1986 Elisabeth-Schneider-Preis “Die Skulptur aus Ton” 2. Preis
- 1987 Zeitgenössische Keramik Offenburg, 1. Preis
- 1988 Elisabeth-Schneider-Preis, 1. Preis
- 1993 Arbeitsstipendium des Landes Schleswig-Holstein
- 1994 Arbeitsstipendium des Europäischen Keramischen Werkzentrum `s-Hertogenbosch, Niederlande
- 1999 Künstlerinnenpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
- 2006 Internationale Biennale de la Sculpture en Céramique, Mamer, Luxemburg, 1. Preis
Works in public collections
- Aachen, Junge Kunst aus NRW, ehemalige Reichsabtei
- Coburg, Kunstsammlung der Veste Coburg
- Düsseldorf, Hetjens Museum
- Frankfurt, Museum Angewandte Kunst
- Kaiserslautern, Museum Pfalzgalerie
- Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum
- Karlsruhe, Regierungspräsidium Nordbaden
- Mainz, Kunstsammlung des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
- Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum
- `s-Hertogenbosch, Museum het Kruithuis