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Daniela Krtsch
Artist from Portugal
Finalist SAF art prize.
Daniela Krtsch (b.1972, in Germany) lives and works in Lisbon, and has been exhibiting consistently in individual and group exhibitions since 2000. Krtsch studied painting and engraving at the Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Lisbon (1998-2003). In 2005 she received the Prize for Best Videoclip, Qwartz Awards in Paris, for Fully Connected / Microaudiowaves; 2003 represented Portugal at the Young Creatives Biennale in Athens, Greece; and in 2002 she received a grant by Caixa Geral de Depósitos.
Daniela Krtsch uses painting, photography and sculpture to create dialogues and suspended narratives. Her working modus embraces a great openness and will to experiment new media and forms of different expressions crossing them with each other and thus cre ating new and
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Daniela Krtsch
Artist from Portugal
Finalist SAF art prize.
Daniela Krtsch (b.1972, in Germany) lives and works in Lisbon, and has been exhibiting consistently in individual and group exhibitions since 2000. Krtsch studied painting and engraving at the Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Lisbon (1998-2003). In 2005 she received the Prize for Best Videoclip, Qwartz Awards in Paris, for Fully Connected / Microaudiowaves; 2003 represented Portugal at the Young Creatives Biennale in Athens, Greece; and in 2002 she received a grant by Caixa Geral de Depósitos.
Daniela Krtsch uses painting, photography and sculpture to create dialogues and suspended narratives. Her working modus embraces a great openness and will to experiment new media and forms of different expressions crossing them with each other and thus cre ating new and
surprising results.
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Regression
Painting by Daniela Krtsch
120 x 150 cm • Oil on canvas
Daniela Krtsch uses photography, sculpture, and paintings to explore themes of identity, intimacy and memory intricately woven with personal experiences and imagination. Her work seeks to create a narrative that drifts between the real and the imagined. In Regression, Krtsch draws on psychoanalysis by depicting the psyche in a state of suspension—caught in between memory, isolation, and the quiet unravelling of the self. Psychoanalyst Carl Jung considered this as a necessary descent in the individuation process, a journey where one sheds the persona, confronts their shadow, and moves towards becoming an integrated self. Here, as the subject is immersed in the collective unconscious, it suggests not only a confrontation with the inner world, but also a return to the Self.
Recent exhibitions include Some day in may, Salgadeiras Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon, (2025); ARCOlisboa Art Fair with Salgadeiras Arte Contemporanea, (2024); Amor, I Love You, Galeria do Pavilhão 31, Lisbon, (2024); Non Finito, Centro de Cultura Contemporânea de Castelo Branco, (2023); Looking for Eden, Gallery Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, (2023).
About the artist
Daniela Krtsch
Artist from Portugal
Finalist SAF art prize.
Daniela Krtsch (b.1972, in Germany) lives and works in Lisbon, and has been exhibiting consistently in individual and group exhibitions since 2000. Krtsch studied painting and engraving at the Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Lisbon (1998-2003). In 2005 she received the Prize for Best Videoclip, Qwartz Awards in Paris, for Fully Connected / Microaudiowaves; 2003 represented Portugal at the Young Creatives Biennale in Athens, Greece; and in 2002 she received a grant by Caixa Geral de Depósitos.
Daniela Krtsch uses painting, photography and sculpture to create dialogues and suspended narratives. Her working modus embraces a great openness and will to experiment new media and forms of different expressions crossing them with each other and thus cre ating new and
surprising results.
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