Photo by Nils Heck
Aktuelles:
Fellowship/Stipendium :
1.7 - 31.9.2024 - Arbeitsstipendium in Los Angeles in der Villa Aurora
In Los Angeles https://www.vatmh.org/en/grant-recipient-details/grant/581-fern-liberty-kallenbach-campbell.html
Duo Show:
September 2024, Fern Liberty Kallenbach Campbell and Martin Neubert, Taste Contemporary Geneva CH
Group Shows :
2024 - September-November: 20-jähriges Jubiläum der Kunststiftung, Kunststiftung Sachsen
Anhalt, Juli 2024 - Kloster Lehnin, Mit Kata Unger und Andrea Ziegler Hair of the Dog ; August
2024 - NOMAD, Los Angeles
1.7 - 31.9.2024 - Arbeitsstipendium in Los Angeles in der Villa Aurora
In Los Angeles https://www.vatmh.org/en/grant-recipient-details/grant/581-fern-liberty-kallenbach-campbell.html
Duo Show:
September 2024, Fern Liberty Kallenbach Campbell and Martin Neubert, Taste Contemporary Geneva CH
Group Shows :
2024 - September-November: 20-jähriges Jubiläum der Kunststiftung, Kunststiftung Sachsen
Anhalt, Juli 2024 - Kloster Lehnin, Mit Kata Unger und Andrea Ziegler Hair of the Dog ; August
2024 - NOMAD, Los Angeles
about the artist
Fern Liberty Kallenbach Campbell (*1995 in New York) lives and works in Halle Saale, Germany. Fern studied communication design at Burg Giebichenstein and completed her bachelor’s degree in 2021 under the tutelage of Prof. Georg Barber. In 2021 she received the Giebichenstein Design Prize for the best idea/concept. In 2023 she completed her diploma in textile art, in the class of Prof. Caroline Achaintre. In 2024 her diploma won first place for the artprize of the Saalesparkasse foundation. In 2024, Fern will participate in the International Fellowship at Villa. Aurora in Los Angeles. Fern’s work has been exhibited in Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Braunschweig, Erfurt, Prague, Moscow, Antwerp, Geneva and London, among others.
Through the medium of fiber art Fern manifests her psyche and satirical view of her surroundings, simultaneously exploring the correlation between these two realms. Fern Liberty Kallenbach Campbell is dedicated to chaotic and painfully human scenarios, trying to capture the point of no return, the moment the mood goes amiss. Fern processes her life experiences and depicts personal anecdotes. Here, the boundaries between good and evil become blurred, as well as the boundaries between self-medication and addiction, chaos and harmony.
The dining table is a recurring element in her works. Fern explores her personal and digital realities and engages with them through carpet tufting, punching and textile applique. She appreciates the fast and passionate work these techniques allow her to do. They enable her to apply lines, structures and forms intuitively, spontaneously and completely freely.
‘’...As if layering frames of a movie into each other, Campbell creates dense, rich images that capture the sense of simultaneity, where colors represent volume, as in the level of sound,and different materials and textures denote temporality. The inherent warmth of textilessoftens the rough edges, making even the unsettling strangely appealing.In a way, her tapestries are like a nonlinear comic strip, where color is as much a maincharacter as the figures that haphazardly
pop in and out of the frame. And depending onhow you look at them, they can appear perfect, chaotic, or perfectly chaotic.’’(Ksenia Jakobson)
CV
Fern Liberty Kallenbach Campbell
*1995 in New York, USA
fern.liberty@gmail.com
Education:
2021: BA communication design, Burg Giebichenstein Halle
2023: Diploma, Textile Arts Burg Giebichenstein Halle
Solo Shows:
2024 - Is that all there is? SHE BAM Leipzig
2023 - Solution:Dissolution, Paul Scherzer Galerie
2023 - Fern Liberty Kallenbach Campbell, Communal Gallery Treptow Berlin
2023 - Dissolute Household, Usine Kugler, Geneva, represented by Taste Contemporary
2022 - Delikatessen, G10 Projektraum, Darmstadt
2021 - Ride or Die, Vika, Halle
2021 - Poor Peoples Castle, Burg2 Galerie, Halle
Selected Group Shows:
2024 - Diplome der Kunst, We are Nowhere, but it’s now - Volkspark, Halle Saale
2023 - Enter Art Fair, Kopenhagen, Booth Hartwich Galerie
2022 - Winterschau, Galerie Hartwich, Sellin
2022 - We Are Here, The Platform, Antverp
2022 - Cast Aside, Taste Contemporary, Usine Kugler, Geneva
2022 - Body as a Work of Art, Bistro 21, Leipzig
2022 - Dinner as a Work of Art, Ortloff, Leipzig
2022 - Illustration Reloaded, Klingspor Museum, Offenbach
2021 - Giebichenstein Designpreis, Kunststiftung Sachsen Anhalt, Halle
2021 - Group Exhibition, Grove Collective, London
2021 - Blühstreifen, zwischen Traum und Zaun, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt
2021 - Love and Romance, Vika, Halle (Saale)
2020 - Engmaschig Textiler Kongress, Grassi Museum, Leipzig
2018 - Lady Vacurova, Michnova Apartment, Prague
2018 - Why am I not myself?, Kunst und Konsumverein, Braunschweig
2017 - What are we doing in a large Panel System, Notfoundgallery, Moscow
Prizes:
2024 - artprize of the Saalesparkasse foundation 2024
2021 - Giebichenstein Design Prize for best Idea/Concept 2021
2019 - Kunstpreis des Förderkreises der Freunde der Augenklinik
Photo by Nils Heck