Monika Kaden

My life and art operate as one with each being the inspiration for the other. The ultimate goal of my art is that it becomes a Gesamtkunstwerk - work of many disciplines.

Having been educated in the Bauhaus Tradition with its extreme rules I discovered my own need to express the freedom of living and working in different cultures. This continues to be an ongoing adventure of discovery. I left what was East Germany at the time, worked in Europe and the US, and continued the adventure as an ongoing discovery of my life.

My art is a journal of this journey, which combines my cultural background with themes of restriction and liberation. In this process, I explore new materials and techniques to express the experience of being free. This freedom is mirrored through my art by utilizing an unlimited combination of techniques and materials in the same way that our lives are a combination of different influences. In addition, I sometimes incorporate sound, movement, light, projections, and video within the work as an essential ingredient to complete my expression.

1991 - 93 Alfred University
New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
Alfred, NY, USA
Degree: Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

1990 - 91 Alfred University
Alfred, NY, USA
Attended as Special Student

1989 - 90 University of Fine Arts & Design ‘Gerrit Rietveld Akademie’
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Graduate Program

1968 – 74 University of Art & Design 'Burg Giebichenstein'
Halle/Saale (Former East) Germany
Degree: Diplom Künstler and BFA

1972 Gesellenpruefung at Walter Gebauer Studio, Buergel, Germany
Degree: Toepfer-Geselle

1968 German Abitur

Since April 2023 - my bronzes have been presented by 'The Carol LaRoche Gallery' on Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM
Since March 2018 Group Show Invitational, David Anthony Fine Arts - DAFA, Taos, NM
Since Jan 2016 Group Show Invitational, Permanent Collection - Shangyu International Celadon Ceramic Art Museum, Shangyu, China
July – Sept. 2015 Group Show Invitational of the New Mexico Ceramic Association “Conversation in Clay”, Los Alamos, NM
June 6 – July 13. 2014 Group Show Invitational, “Made at The Clay Studio: Guest Artists in Residency 2010-14”, Harrison Gallery + Online, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
12/2013–04/2014 Group Show Invitational “Shidoni Galleries and Sculptural Gardens”, Tesuque, NM
May-August 2013 Group Show Invitational, Destene Allison Fine Art, Eldorado, NM
April 2013 Group Show Invitational, “We Who Are Clay”, Fuller Lodge Art Center, Los Alamos, NM
Since 10/2012 Solo Show “3M” Headquarters Munich, Germany
11/ 2011-10/2012 Group Show Invitational “Galerie Wimmer”, Munich, Germany
2011 Group Show Invitational “Shidoni Galleries and Sculptural Gardens”, Tesuque, NM
2011 Solo Show invitational, GiessereiGalerie, Munich, Germany
.... Please see the exhib...