Artwork description / Biography
Forming, uncovering, and exploring structures, understood in the broadest sense, constitutes my overriding process and theme. Structures, which lie at the root of every aspect of life, are formed through interactions. This is also the case in an artist’s work. My mood and feelings as well as spontaneity and chance play an important role when I am painting and want to develop specific ideas or concepts. For me, a painting is finished when its visual and intellectual configuration results in a solid form and thus identity. My paintings emerge from within this network of interlocking forces of conception, emotion, chance, and construction.
I always work in three phases. Initially I record my ideas and concepts with pencil or coloured crayons on paper. As I translate my ideas into acrylic on canvas, I find that I am creating from two inter-dependent processes. I start with a dynamic and expressive approach and then the contemplative and reflective method responds. Sometimes the latter takes up the consequences of the former and further develops them. This reflective and emotional formulation takes place spontaneously within the painting.
My engagement with structures sometimes incorporates imprints of everyday objects, such as shards of glass or natural materials, as well as numbers, symbols, and text. Some symbols that I use—for example, the airplanes that appear in various paintings (either painted or as imprints from children’s toys)—can be charged with meaning by their viewers and can represent a threat in today’s global context. These symbols, however, play with ambiguity and can be purposefully understood in a variety of ways. Ultimately, my mixed-media work as an artist is fundamentally defined by abstraction and representation which I use together to create unique visual formations.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 The Space Between, Galerie 64, Bremen, Germany
The Motherboard Project, Galerie Metanoia, Paris, France
Signs Part II, curated by Eric Sutphin, Galerie im Zieglerhof, Lueneburg, Germany
Multiplicity, Galleria Alessandro Berni, Perugia, Italy
2015 Villingili Open Studio, Shangri-La`s Resort & Spa Villingili (Artist in Residence Program),Maldives
Signs Part I, curated by Eric Sutphin , Galerie im Zieglerhof, Lueneburg, Germany
2014 Korn (Kernel), Galerie im Zieglerhof, Lueneburg, Germany
Null Komma Null, curated by Eric Sutphin, Rogue Space Chelsea , New York, NY
2013 Zwischen den Seiten, (Between the Pages), Ratsbuecherei Lueneburg, Germany
2012 Struktur schafft Identitaet (Structure Creates Identity), Aerztehaus Hannover, Germany
Space For Art, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Netherlands
Der Lauf der Farbe (The Course of Color), Kulturverein Bienenbuettel, Germany
2011 Spontanitaet schafft Struktur (Spontaneity Creates Structure), Heinrich- Heine-House,Lueneburg,Germany
Step Two, Projekthaus Hamburg, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Roys`People Art Fair, London, U.K. (upcoming)
Detlef. E. Aderhold /Gail Winbury, Heinrich Heine Haus, Lueneburg, Germany, curated by C.Althusmann
Art Madrid with Galleria Unique (Italy), Spain
Affordable Art Fair Milan, with Folly & Muse, (London), Italy
2016 Luxembourg Art Fair with Galleria Unique(Italy), Luxembourg
St-Art ,Foire Europeenne D`Art Contemporain with Galleria Unique(Italy), Strasbourg, France
Paratissima Torino with Galleria Unique(Italy), Torino, Italy
Royal West of England 164th Open Exhibition preselected
3rd Annual Abstract Catalyst Exhibition, juried show,Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR.,U.S.
Nexus, Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, NJ, U.S. curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D.
Scope Basel with Alessandro Berni Gallery (Italy & U.S.), Basel, Switzerland
Small Works Exhibit, juried show, Lemonade Stand Gallery, Key West Florida, U.S.
Clio Art Fair, Chelsea New York, NY
Art Madrid with Galleria Unique (Italy), Spain
Art Innsbruck with Galleria Unique (Italy), Austria
2015 A Single Grain Of Rice, Galerie Metanoia, Paris , France
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, with Folly & Muse (U.K.)
Affordable Art Fair London Battersea, with Folly & Muse, London U.K.
Moniker Projects London with Folly & Muse, London, U.K.
Group Exhibition of Winners “Secret Art Prize”, Curious Duke Gallery, London U.K.
Affordable Art Fair New York , with Galleria Ca` D`Oro, Rom-Miami-NYC
Berliner Liste, with Galleria Unique (Italy), Germany
IAM Pocket Sized, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY curated by Rhonda Cooper
Future and Behind, (Un)contemporary Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
Liverpool Contemporary with Folly & Muse (U.K.)
Select Art Fair NYC with Alessandro Berni Gallery, New York, NY
Art Innsbruck, with Galleria Unique (Italy), Austria
Clio Art Fair, Rogue Space Chelsea, New York, NY
2014 Summer Residency Program Open Studio, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Berliner Liste, with Galerie im Zieglerhof, Germany
2013 International Summeracademy Venice (Italy) curated by Wolf Werdigier, Austria Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, with Galerie im Zieglerhof, Germany
Awards
2015 Secret Art Prize, Category “Mixed Media”, London, U.K.
Education
MA (Psychology), Universitaet Goettingen, Germany
PhD (Psychology), Universitaet Potsdam, Germany
Residencies
2015 Artist in Residence at the Shangri-La`s Villingili Resort & Spa Maldives
2014 Summer Residency Program, School of Visual Arts New York, NY
2013 International Summer Academy Venice, Italy
2011 Freie Akademie der bildenden Kuenste, Essen, Germany
