Artist’s Statement
It is a question of possibilities
The Light of Transformation – Letná park series 2026
My work embodies extrapolations of self as an outsider and the need to transform the literal, figurative world around me into something beyond the banality of a tormented existence. Form out of context isolates, individuates, and evokes a world of new intellectual and aesthetic possibilities. The juxtaposition of colour in landscape steps beyond the chains of a bleak and mundane life, unlocking a vast array of emotions existing beyond the immediacy of one’s circumstances, leading the viewer into a new and more vibrant world of meaning and beauty.
I paint in series because life is a flow. You can add the rest.
Questions of meaning, context, possible narrative, sign, symbol, time and history resonate in the relationship between multiples of passing and becoming. Instinctively there is a need for clarity, familiarity and certainty. Yet the closer I come, the more I discover opacity, enigma and elusiveness. Inside the paradox, there is beauty, juxtapositions of the paradox, a tilt this way or that in passing, reveal fragments of the aesthetic. The contradictions are wonderful, there is no center, the center can not hold.
Affirmation is abundant. One needs merely look.
Artist’s Bio
In the four decades since first painting in oil on canvas in a studio in California, Kip Bauersfeld [B. 1967 – Washington D.C.] is best known for his works involving a colorful, vibrant, albeit idiosyncratic, juxtaposition of space and human form. Fascinated by ideas of dislocation, separation and the impossibility of belonging, Kip’s work draws on a host of deeply personal experiences of alienation and the constant struggle to cling to ephemeral notions of love and beauty in an over-mediated and hyperbolic world. Inspired by the Czech Underground and the various stances taken by artists as divergent as the poets Ivan Martin Jirous (“Magor”), and Pavel Zaicek, and painters such as Lucien Freud, Gerhard Richter, Neo Rauch and movements including Situationism and Stuckism, Kip’s work at once reflects the conflict between the aesthetics of an artistic tradition he is forced to view from the outside, his desperate need to belong and the all-pervasive, mind-numbing banality of life in today’s global village.
Commercial commissions and group show invitations accepted – contact kip.bauersfeld@gmail.com
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Prague, Czech Republic, 16 July – 28 August “The Light of Transformation”, Cafe Ubuntu pod Lipami, Prague 7
2025
Prague, Czech Republic, 29 May – 27 June “Once Upon a Time – Prague Sprig 2025 – Hope and Hopelessness”, Salon – Koncept Letna, Prague 7
2018
Prague, Czech Republic. January 19 – March 2. “Just Breathe“, StellArt Gallery, Prague 8
See photos of the opening here.
2016
Prague, Czech Republic. April 1 – May 13. “ARR (All Rights Reserved)”, Kyklop, Prague 7
Prague, Czech Republic. May 13. “Umeni na ulice”, Korunovacni, Praha 7
2015
Prague, Czech Republic. May – present. “Signs”, Vegtral Restaurance Bar, Prague 7
2014
Prague, Czech Republic. December 11- January 14. “Letna Paintings”, The Farm, Prague 7
2013
Prague, Czech Republic. March 1 – May 1. “An Opening of Sorts”, Vegtral Restaurance Bar
Prague, Czech Republic. September 23 – present. “Smoking Section”, Vegtral Restaurance Bar
Prague, Czech Republic. October – present. “Eclectic Eccentric”, Galerie Chez Gerd
2012
Prague, Czech Republic. May 1 – January 5, 2015. “Conference Rooms”, Balcar Polansky Eversheds law offices
2011
Prague, Czech Republic. June 10. “Stavka!-Strike”, Letna
Prague, Czech Republic. February. “Vote Bunny”, Letna, Holesovice
2008
Prague, Czech Republic. January 12- March 15. “Speculum Speculorum – Contemporary Figurative Painting,” CzechInn Cafe, Vinohrady
2007
Prague, Czech Republic. January 10 – February 10. “Passage – between Passings and Becomings,” Kavovarna Galerie, Pasaz Lucerna
Prague, Czech Republic. May 3 – August 20. “Capture Witheld,” Ouky Douky Cafe, Holesovice
Prague, Czech Republic. May 31- June 15. “The Raw and the Cooked,” Kavovarna Galerie, Pasaz Lucerna
Group shows
2025
Prague, Czceh Republic, June 15 – July 15, “Once Upon a Time‘, Salon Koncept Letna.
2023
Prague, Czech Republic. March 2 – April 4. “Prodejni vystava del,” Salon Koncept Letna.
See photos of the opening here. (scroll right)
2022
Athens, Greece. “COV-ART Project,” Copelouzos Family Art Museum.
Prague, Czech Republic. Opening – Salon Koncept Letna.
2011
London, UK. April 19 – May 2. “The Enemies of Art”. Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill
2010
Prague, Czech Republic. September 16 – October 7. “Where’s Your Sense of Humor?” The Globe Bookstore and Cafe
Commercial Commissions/Private Commissions
2026, Private residence, Los Angeles, California
2023
CIUR a.s. – Pražská 1012, 250 01, Brandýs nad Labem – the bastards never paid!
Publications
The Superseding, A Prague Nocturne, by Kip Bauersfeld, Vote Bunny Press, Prague 2012
The Enemies of Art, by Charles Thomson, Robert Janas and Edward Lucie-Smith, Victoria Press, London 2011
The International Dictionary of Artists, World Wide Art Books, Santa Barbara, California, 2011
The Return of Kral Majales, Prague’s International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010 An Anthology, edited by Louis Armand, Litteria Pragensia Books, Prague 2010
Stuckism International, by Robert Janas, Victoria Press, London, 2009
Seeing Artist Kip Bauersfeld, by Leigh Hughes, Edifice Wrecked, Los Angles 2006
O cem sni muzi, by Olga Sommerova, Nakladatelstvi Slavka Kopecka, Prague 2005
Franz Kafka, Contemplation & Other Stories, Translated by Kevin Blahut, Twisted Spoon Press, Prague 1992
COV-ART Project, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, 2022