The drapes were light

Cosima zu Knyphausen, The drapes were light, 2018, pastel on cotton, 220 x 300 cm. Courtesy: stadium, Berlin

Cosima zu Knyphausen.a Studio of One’s Own

Self-portraits and records from the studios of those invisible female artists who never entered the canon of art history are subject of Cosima zu Knyphausen’s artistic investigations. Her ensuing series of work, often reduced to the essentials and multiply duplicated (and sampled), are reminiscent of exercises -sometimes very sketch-like, sometimes less so, sometimes with thoroughly painted areas or with unexpectedly interrupted lines.