Vera Klute

Vera Klute ARHA (born 1981 in Germany) is a contemporary artist based in Ireland since 2001.

Vera Klute
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Artist Vera Klute
Born1981
Salzkotten, Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationIADT
Known forSculpture, Painting, Drawing, Kinetic Art, Video Animation
Notable workPortraits of Sr Stanislaus Kenndy and Garry Hynes in the National Gallery, an oversized sculpture of Luke Kelly situated in Dublin 1.
StyleFigurative Art
MovementContemporary Art
AwardsAnita Young Bursary 2022, Hanley Sustainability Energy 2021, Solomon Fine Art Award for Sculpture 2020, Hennessy Portrait Prize 2015, National Gallery of Ireland; Hennessy Craig Scholarship 2015, K+M Evans Award for Painting 2013, Emerging Visual Artist Award 2009
ElectedRoyal Hibernian Academy (RHA)
Websitewww.veraklute.net

Biography

Vera Klute was born in 1981[1] in Salzkotten, Germany. Klute moved to Ireland in 2001 and attended Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, graduating in 2006. After living and working in Dublin for 20 years, she moved to Co. Kilkenny in 2021. She was elected as Associate Member of the RHA in 2018.

Work

Vera Klute works in a variety of media, from painting to sculpture, kinetics, drawing and video animation.[2] As an artist, she appears to be a remarkable shapeshifter in her own right, a quick and astute adapter to whatever her next project calls for.[3] Her range is exceptional. Fundamentally, she draws, and in a way drawing underpins her use of painting, photography, collage, video, carving, modelling, construction, tapestry, ceramics and even taxidermy. [4]

Her ability to move impeccably between mediums is married to a sense of solid quietude that marks her work as the product of deep contemplation. A consistently understated undercurrent of anxiety is tempered by the sheer control she exerts over her widely varying techniques. Klute’s art is intimate and dispassionate at once, unsentimental but genuinely curious, occasionally even uncanny. Her approach is that of a scientist, but the best of her work has emotional integrity at its heart. [5]

Exhibitions

Klute has had a number of solo exhibitions: Wexford Arts Centre (2009), Butler Gallery (2011), QSS Gallery (2014), the LAB and Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) Ashford (2014), and The Molesworth Gallery (2016, 2020, 2022). She had her first major survey show at the Gallagher Gallery RHA in 2017.[6] She had a 2-person show at Limerick City Gallery in 2021.

She has exhibited in numerous group shows including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Butler Gallery, VISUAL Carlow, the Royal Ulster Academy, Tampere Art Museum, Reina Sofia national museum and Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Collections


Klute's portrait of Sr Stanislaus Kennedy was added to the National Portrait Collection in the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) in 2014.[7][8] She was also commissioned by the National Gallery to create a bust of Garry Hynes.[9] A self-portrait of Klute was selected for inclusion in the National Self-portrait Collection of Ireland, and she won the Hennessy Portrait Prize at the NGI in 2015. Klute was commissioned by the Royal Irish Academy in 2017 to create a set of four portraits for their Women on Walls initiative. The portraits were of Françoise Henry, Sheila Tinney, Phyllis Clinch and Eleanor Knott.[10][11] In 2018, she was elected an Associate Member of the RHA.[6] In 2018 Klute's bust of Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray was unveiled in Roquebrune Cap Martin. [12]In January 2019, Klute's sculpture of Luke Kelly was unveiled on Sheriff Street, Dublin having won the commission for work under a competition established the then Lord Mayor of Dublin, Christy Burke.[13][14]

She was one of four artists that received a commission to create the first female busts for Trinity College Dublin’s (TCD) Long Room. Her bust of Rosalind Franklin was unveiled in 2023.[15]

Awards

She won the Hennessy Craig Scholarship in 2015 from the RHA. Klute has been the recipient of the Arts Council Bursary Awards in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2019. She has also been awarded the Emerging Visual Artist Award from the Wexford Arts Centre in 2009 and the K+M Evans Award in 2013, the Solomon Fine Art Award for Sculpture in 2020, the Hanley Sustainability Energy Award in 2021 and the Anita Young Bursary in 2022.[6][1]

Vera Klute beside her sculpture of Luke Kelly
Vera Klute working on a large painting in her studio

References
  1. "Vera Klute". National Gallery of Ireland. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  2. Leach, Cristín (14 October 2017). "21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks: Flesh & Blood II". RTÉ Culture. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  3. Leach, Cristín (2023-10-08). "Going out on a limb". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  4. "Visual art: Breeders in nature, all teeth and claws". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  5. Leach, Cristín (2017-10-14). "21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks: Flesh & Blood II". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. "Vera Klute ARHA". Royal Hibernian Academy. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  7. "IADT Graduate Vera Klute announced as winner of the 2015 Hennessy Portrait Prize". IADT. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  8. "Sister of Charity Portrait in National Gallery of Ireland". www.rsccaritas.com. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  9. "Garry Hynes (b.1953), Theatre Director, Co-founder of Druid Theatre". onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  10. Leach, Cristín (9 December 2016). "Putting Ireland's groundbreaking Women on Walls at the RIA". RTÉ Culture. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  11. "Women on Walls". Royal Irish Academy (in Irish). 3 March 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  12. "Eileen Gray Celebrated at French Exhibition". Independent.ie. 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  13. Falvey, Deirdre (29 January 2019). "The story behind Dublin's two new Luke Kelly sculptures". The Irish Times. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  14. "Diary President And Sabina Unveil A Sculpture Of The Late Luke Kelly By Vera Klute". president.ie. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  15. "After 280 years Trinity finally unveils busts to women in Long Room". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2023-10-08.

Vera Klute - Artist Website

Molesworth Gallery - Artist Page

RHA Academicians Page

The Works Presents - Interview with John Kelly on the RTE player

The Two Lukes - Documentary about the making of Dublin's two Luke Kelly Sculptures

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