Kerstin Bratsch & Adele Roder @ The Serpentine Gallery

This is the first major exhibition of work by Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder in a UK public institution. Brätsch and Röder are based in New York and London. While each has her own practice, the artists have worked collaboratively as DAS INSTITUT since 2007.  The exhibition DAS INSTITUT focusses on the transformative properties and effects of light on bodies and spaces. The skylights of the gallery will be covered with coloured gels and the key sources of light will be the artworks themselves, as projected images, as stained glass and as neon shapes. Traces of Brätsch and Röder’s own physical presence will also be made visible: silhouettes and photographs of their bodies are incorporated into a number of works, such as the Am Sonntag Series (2014), while their faces and figures emerge through the surfaces of pieces, such as Dark Codex (2015).