Isolde Kille is a German-American artist, primarily working in painting, sculpture and video. Out of the sum of produced works in time, Kille creates immersive installations and surreal environments. The viewer can wander into a world of projections, repetition and reflections, paintings and sculptures create layers interact with viewer to create a kaleidoscopic window. Reality is created twice, first in your mind, and then in reality, in her installations Kille makes aware of simulation of an inner and outer reality.

There are layers pf perception as well as digital production calling attention to the larger context of exhibition and the way in which viewers interact with works of art and environment.  Her immersive environments are deconstructing analog and digital processes, offering a psychodrama of body and mind connections.

Born in Welver (Westphalia), Germany, Isolde Kille holds a master’s degree in visual communication from the University of Arts Berlin, Germany. In Berlin, Kille organized several art initiatives which connected her to the art market in the US and inspired her to move from Berlin to New York City in 1998. In 2000 she debuts her spacial paintings at John Gibson Gallery, curated by David Gibson. Her work was presented by Lital Mehr Gallery in Chelsea, New York, has been reviewed by New York Times, Artnet among others and is in the collection of the Kupferstich Kabinett in Dresden, Germany as well as private collections in New York, Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands.

In 2009 she visits Santa Fe, New Mexico and decides to stay. After living in big Cities such as Berlin and New York City most of her life, she was craving to be surrounded by Nature and enjoy the simplicity of painting and sculpting under the sky. Also, with the awareness of global warming, the extinction of plants and animals, air pollution, etc.… she felt the urge to make a difference as an artist and create an antidote to our current culture. In this transition, her art works acquire both their meaning and existence in the actual world. One dimension transforming into another dimension. Isolde Kille describes her work as calculated counter acts in our current culture and environment.

Over the last decade, Kille has worked on the land while filming her processes in environment, and creating sound recordings to speak about her inner experiences This high contrast of conceptual and almost ancient relict painting and sculpting creates the stage for viewer to enter gateways to subconsciousness.

While her video work is experimental, The surfaces of her art works are physically quite turbulent, in-cooperating weather elements such as earth, rain and sun exposure, and mirrors! Mirrors are signaling light reflections to communicate with the viewer, Signaling a hyper reality, a dreamlike existence to connect to subconsciousness. 

In 2018, she transforms a private viewing room at The High Line in Chelsea, New York, into her first installation titled 'Utopia'. In her recent installation at Uncool Gallery in New York, October 2024, Kille embodies a shamanic figure, leading the viewer into the mythical “Land of the Lilies” through video projections and dreamlike reflections. These immersive visuals invited participants A hypnosis with open eyes.

Kille lives and works in Abiquiu, New Mexico.