Critics

Zhang Xiaotao:
...Through digital technology, he has taken images of the outside world and turned them into an art language code of “nonsense print” to achieve a psychological virtual reality that generates a realistic landscape. ..read more
(Zhang Xiaotao is an artist and a writer in Beijing)

Wang Chunchen:
.... Kuert’s work always uses a story as context, recording each movement and defamiliarizing it while endowing these movements with an aesthetic style. ..read more
(Wang Chunchen is a critic and curator of the Central Academy of Fine
Arts Art Museum and has a PhD in Art History)

Enzo di Martino
The feminine figure, the woman in her most comprehensive meaning, with all the symbolic worthiness this word can evoke, at times heroic, at times defeated, occupies a central position in Beat Kuert’s imaginary continent. ..read more
(Enzo di Martino is an Art-Critic, Curator and author in Venice)

Robin Peckham
Beat Kuert at Yuanfen

The work is a successful formal experiment, aesthetically pleasing and conceptually rigorous ... ..read more

Novella Prestigiovanni
It’s art that transcends the canonical boundaries and marks its own course, both on the screen and in live performances through the bodies of the interpretes. Art and life get mixed up in the battle against death, confirming once again the genuine purpose of art: leaving a footprint for eternity. ...read more
(Novella Prestigiovanni is a Film-Critic and Journalist in Milan)

Gu Zheng:

Desire, Shaping, Concretized, …, Termination
On the Photography of Beat Kuert

...“Desire comes into shape and concretizes in the picture, and will also end here. Maybe this is the orientation that Beat Kuert aims with his unique body images.”..read more

Time Out Beijing January 2009
“Kuert is the man about town this month, also ...... ..read more

Ellen Pearlman:
... His images conjure up a sensibility rooted in the chaotic and troubling world views of Northern European Renaissance painters such as Lucas Cranach the Elder, Matthias Grunewald and Hiermonous Bosch.
(Ellen Pearlman is a Critic and an author in New York and Beijing) ..... read more

Wu Hong:

A War between Narration and Image: Digital Image Art by Swiss Artist Beat Kuert

“...That’s why Beat Kuert’s works also possess an ultimate philosophical value while satisfying our visual sense.” ..read more

Critics

David Ben Kay

There are few artists, past or present, who have the vision or talent to show the full spectrum of the female: from the sensual and the erotic, to the duality of being both the creator and the destroyer. Beat Kuert is one of the few artists with the vision and talent to undertake such an endeavor and to do so with a unique mastery of color, form, movement and myth. ..read more