Kerstin Brätsch
Born in 1979 in Hambourg, Allemagne
Born in 2010 from the collaboration of German visual artist Kerstin Brätsch (born in Hamburg in 1979) and American sculptor Debo Eilers (born in Texas in 1974), KAYA is an artist duo that lives and works between New York, Naples, and Berlin. The name of the collective refers to the project’s muse and collaborator, Kaya Serene, the daughter of one of Eilers’s childhood friends. In the artists’ eyes, she represents the perfect synthesis between their individual visual practices. She regularly participates in their artistic work as a “third body” and sometimes leads their performances. Through their alter ego KAYA, Brätsch and Eilers engage in a multi-faceted artistic practice: using everyday objects, they create hybrid works that are located at the intersection of the visual arts, performance, and installation.
