Established in 2010 by Kerstin Brätsch (born 1979 in Hamburg) and Debo Eilers (born 1974 in Texas). KAYA lives and works in New York, Naples and Berlin.
Villa Romana Fellows 2019

photo: Daniele Molajoli

Grants and Awards

Foundation for the Arts Emergency Grant, 2010

installation view, Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2017
photo: Kirsten Kilponen

performance at KAMP KAYA, curated by Eva Birkenstock, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 2015
photo credit: Uli Holz

Solo Exhibitions

2015
KLUB KAYA, Deborah Schamoni, Munic, D
KAMP KAYA invites friends to Bregenz, curated by Eva Birkenstock, KUB Kunsthaus Bregenz, AT
KAYA V, curated by N.O.Madski”, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Paramount Ranch, with Freedman Fitzpatrick incl. Daniel Chew as Burmamyanmar, Los Angeles

2013
KAYA III, incl. Daniel Chew as Burmamyanmar, 47 Canal, New York

2012
KAYA II, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles

2010
KAYA, 179 Canal, New York

Group Exhibitions

2019
40000, A museum of curiosity, Fellbach Triennale, Fellbach, D

2018
Aktive Asche, Johannes Paul Raether & Mariechen Danz feat. KAYA, mit Loredana und Nicolas An Xedro, Bärenzwinger Berlin
KAYA friends and family, feat. Mariechen Danz and Johannes Paul Raether and friends, including Loredana und Nicolas An XedroTropez, Freibad Humboldthain, Berlin
KAYA The Store, featuring CFGNY, Nhu Duong, Nic Xedro, N.O.Madski, Capri, Düsseldorf, D
Kerstin Brätsch Ruine /KAYA _KOVO, with Nicolas An Xedro, Fondazione MEMMO, Rome
The Vitalist Economy of Painting, curated by Isabelle Graw, Galerie Neu /MD72, Berlin
Chthonic Rift, Krauper Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
L'esprit souterrain, with N.O.Madski, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Pommery cave, Ardenne, FR
Blind Faith, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Lemurenheim, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
KAYA. MADREscenza – Seasonal School, KAYA NAPOLI, workshop as KAYA, Fondazione Donnaregina per le Arti Contemporanee /Madre – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli, IT
Kerstin Brätsch. Innovation, with DAS INSTITUT, Full-Fall, Gaylen Gerber, Jane Jo, KAYA, Alexander Kluge, Kathrin Sonntag und UNITED BROTHERS, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, D

2017
WILD WEST, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, USA
CUL-DE-SAC, Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN
The Leftovers, Simon Lee Gallery, New York
Eggy and Seedy, Reading: International, Reading, UK
Whitney Biennial, curated by Mia Lock and Christopher Lew, Whitney Museum, New York

2016
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, D
I Pledge Allegiance, kuratiert von KM Temporaer, On Stellar Rays, New York
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, kuratiert von Achim Hochdörfer, David Joselit, Manuela Ammer, Museum Brandhorst, München

2015
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich, D
Jahresgaben, NAK Aachen, Aachen, D
Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Univeralism, curated by Robin Peckham, M Woods, Beijing, CN
KAYA Window, Art In General, New York
Sweating as Contribution, curated by Camilla Wills, Trieze, Paris
Yes We Are Open, Gio Marconi, Milano
KAYA Aquitaine, Monnaie de Paris /Frac Aquitaine, FR

2014
One step ahead of moving backwards, with N.O.Madski, curated by KM Temporaer, Berlin
Hypthesis for an Exhibition, curated by Begum Yasar Dominique Levy, New York
Come to my Castle, Old Room, New York

2013
KAYA II II III Nomad in Speculations on Anonymous Materials, curated by Susanne Pfeffer, Fridericianum, Kassel, D

2010
KAYA, Performance, PS1 Moma, New York