With a chronological plate section and detailed texts this is the first monograph on the widely acclaimed Germanborn New Yorkbased painter Kerstin Brtsch born 1979 a star of The Museum of Modern Arts 2014 show and catalogue The Forever Now. It surveys her expanded painterly practice which includes paintings on paper and mylar foil glass works and marblings but also performances and collaborative projects as Das Institut with Adele Rder and Kaya with Debo Eilers and Kaya Serene. Throbbing with