Kerstin Brätsch

Marta Award of the Wemhöner Foundation

28. 11. 2026

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28. 2. 2027

Kerstin Brätsch, Untitled, from the MƎTA series, 2023–2024,
oil and collage on paper, © Kerstin Brätsch, Courtesy
the artist, Gladstone Gallery and Gió Marconi Milan
Kerstin Brätsch, Untitled, from the MƎTA series, 2023–2024, oil and collage on paper, © Kerstin Brätsch, Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery and Gió Marconi Milan

Kerstin Brätsch (born 1979 in Hamburg, lives and works in Berlin) transforms the Lippold Gallery into a living organism. Materiality, color, surface, and space intertwine, dissolving the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture.

A key element of the exhibition is the floor itself. Drawing on a mosaic project she previously realized, the artist has designed a vinyl floor for Marta that covers all 350 square meters of gallery space on the museum’s first floor. Here, large-scale paintings created specifically for the exhibition encounter sculptural elements made from printed cardboard, alongside a video work. The various media and techniques merge into an immersive environment in which painting is not not just something to look at, but something to experience. It becomes a living, dynamic presence that engages the senses and blurs the boundaries between image, space, and perception.

The Marta Award carries a prize of €25,000 and includes, among other things, the acquisition of a work for the Collection Marta. The award, in its new format is presented every two years.The recipient is selected by an independent expert jury, to recognize distinctive artistic positions and support the expansion of the museum’s collection.

Dank
Marta-Partner

We would like to express our sincere thanks to the Marta Herford Corporate Partners and Corporate Premium Partners, as well as the Marta Fund for New Art, for their long-term support of our program.

Accompanying program

The exhibition program will be published here shortly.

Accompanying program

18.00 – 20.00
Guided tour

Enjoy art after work: Every Wednesday, the Marta invites you to end the day with a relaxed visit to the exhibition until 8 p.m.

18.00 – 19.00
Guided tour

In a one-hour tour with our freelance art educators through the current exhibitions, you will receive information about the exhibiting artists and their works and have the opportunity to ask questions about the art.

Ticket
3.50 euros plus exhibition entrance fee

Registration
no registration required

18.30 – 19.30
Guided tour

City + Vision – Herford Architecture Talks – Frank Gehry Special

6.30 p.m.: Interactive exhibition tour with Prof. Berthold Heinrich Penkhues and Marta Director Kathleen Rahn

7.30 p.m.: Slide presentation at the Marta Forum with Prof. Berthold Heinrich Penkues

This special evening in the “City + Vision – Herford Architecture Talks” series is dedicated to Marta architect Frank Gehry—as part of the exhibition Mindset Los Angeles – Frank Gehry und die Cool School. The guest speaker is architect Prof. Berthold Heinrich Penkhues, who worked at Frank Gehry’s firm in the second half of the 1980s. In a one-hour interactive exhibition tour, Penkhues and Marta Director Kathleen Rahn will focus primarily on Gehry’s architectural projects.

In his following presentation at the Marta Forum, Penkhues talks about his work over several years in Venice and Santa Monica, California, with Frank Gehry: From a personal perspective, he illustrates and describes formative experiences from that time. In 1989, Penkhues returned to Kassel, where he founded his own architectural firm and served for five years as a lecturer and research associate at the University of Kassel. In 1994, he was called to the Carolo Wilhelmina Technical University in Braunschweig, where he heads the Institute for Experimental Design (IEX). In 2001, he received the Hessian Culture Prize for his outstanding achievements in architecture, particularly for the museum in Korbach’s old town.

This event is made possible through a partnership with the Association of German Architects (BDA) in East Westphalia-Lippe.

Ticket

Guided tour of the exhibition: 3.50 euros plus admission to the exhibition

Lecture at the Marta Forum: 5 euros, reduced price* 3 euros

*Reduced for people in education (18-27 years) and people with disabilities (from GdB 50), proof as well as a photo ID must be presented unsolicited at the entrance

Info

Advance sale online or at the museum box office (Tue to Sun 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wed to 8 p.m.)

On Wednesday evenings, the exhibitions are open until 8 p.m.

Exhibitions

Accompanying program

18.00 – 20.00
Guided tour
18.00 – 19.00
Guided tour
18.30 – 19.30
Guided tour