Discover the contemporary work of Renata Renata Kos
1963 born in Ljubljana, Slovenia
1987-1994 studied at the HfG Offenbach
1995-2016 costume designer for television, film + theater
From 2016 freelance artist with her own studio in Frankfurt
Exhibitions and projects
2024 Here are lions, group exhibition, Eisfabrik Offenbach
2023 anonymous art, Kunstverein Montez, Frankfurt
2023 Love, Kunstverein Montez, Frankfurt
2023 Paradises, Woodland, Pure Reflections, group exhibition, Eisfabrik Offenbach
2021 + 2022 + 2023 Superladen, Offenbach
2021 The paradise within us, group exhibition, Eisfabrik Offenbach
2020 Today I choose luxury, BOK Offenbach
2019 Signage 25Hours Hotel „The Trip", Frankfurt
2019 Exhibition, group exhibition, Basis Frankfurt project space
2019 Wall design private apartment, Frankfurt
2018 Shape Shifting, Basis Frankfurt project space
2018 Lella Mozzarella, Restaurant Mainzer Landstrasse, Frankfurt
2017 The sky is blue and the earth is round, Basis Frankfurt project space
2016 Lella Mozzarella, Restaurant, Frankfurt Sachsenhausen
2015 Cutting sky upwards sky downwards, group exhibition, Blaues Haus, Frankfurt
2015 Wall design staircase residential building, Frankfurt
2012 Wall design Bitter & Zart Chocolaterie + Café, Frankfurt
The medium of collage allows me to bring very different worlds of images into a new context. It is the game with it that excites me. Finding without searching. This creates bizarre worlds in which things are combined that don't actually belong together. My view of the world, as if shaken up by a kaleidoscope.
One of my main motifs for the past 4 years has been the theme of paradise.
In these pictures, reality is blurred; it is a utopia and the dream of a perfect world in itself, in which it is not important whether the plants come from the same region, the same climate zone, whether the proportions of the animals, which are also freely combined, correspond to the size of the plants. Is it any wonder that fish swim through the landscape? Or the leopard stretching on the daisy?
For me, the pictures are a composition of color, space and sound.
During the process, I added further elements: planets and gold leaf suns.
With the series "When the Comets Come" the scenery is broken up, people and architecture are added. The world as we know it appears in paradise. But this world dissolves, the houses are just skeletons and the people who move around in the scenery float in between, while small and large comets fly through the air.
My series of cutouts is a completely new approach. The collages no longer consist of individual elements, but of 2 image levels:
I cut out parts from historical landscape and city images.
The cuts initially follow the architecture, then become independent and form completely new structures in the landscape and the buildings.
The 2nd level is made of neon colored paper.
By creating a gap between the levels, I create a space, the shadow of the remaining forms falls on the rear level, like an additional drawing.
