Kathleen Ryan Esther Freund recombining them into purely aesthetic

recombining them into purely aesthetic forms divorced from their original contexts

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Mark Setrakian

Pontus Hultén

Kathleen Ryan Esther Freund recombining them into purely aestheticThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Kathleen Ryan, which was organized in 2024 by Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, and traveled to Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway, in 2025. Featuring more than thirty sculptures dating from 2014 to 2024, the catalogue documents the artists first major museum survey. Ryan crafts mostly larger than life objects, including fruit, birds, and spiderwebs, from found and reused materials that