SAVE THE DATE

ART MATTERS 12: Our next Call for Artists Worldwide will open on Friday 15 November 2024 at noon CET here on this webpage!

We are looking for artists for an upcoming group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne as well as online!

All further information on the application will be announced here on Friday 15 November at noon CET!!

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ART MATTERS 11 – SPECIAL SUMMER EDITION

Online Group Exhibition: "Animalistic"

10 – 19 August – online until 26/08/2024

1 new artist daily at 6pm CET

exclusively on: galerie-biesenbach.de, Instagram and Facebook

FINALE: Monday 19 August at 6pm CET

We announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in the group exhibition "Animalistic" in our gallery in Cologne in 2025.

About ART MATTERS 11 ... more >

Following our 11th Open Artist Call, we launch our new ART MATTERS "Animalistic" online group exhibition on Saturday 10 August at 6pm CET. From all applications received, we have selected 9 finalists, who will be presented with their submitted artworks on our website, Instagram and Facebook, one after the other until 18 August. Every day at 6pm CET, a new name and artwork will be unveiled so that the exhibition slowly comes together as a whole. The presentation of our Top 9 is rounded off by the "Honourable Mentions" in our daily Instagram stories, in which we acknowledge the works of a selected number of artists who just missed the final cut (27, to be exact, posted in our Instagram stories from 11 to 19 August, 3 per day and between noon and 6pm).

Finals Day: On Monday 19 August at 6pm, we will announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in the group exhibition "Animalistic" in our gallery space in Cologne in 2025.

We invite you to visit ART MATTERS 11 regularly here on our website, Instagram and Facebook.

About our ART MATTERS series:
As with our previous 10 Open Artist Calls since April 2020 – 9 regular editions and a first special edition in summer 2023 – we were aware of how diverse and eclectic this 11th online exhibition could be, especially on the theme of "Animalistic". But it is precisely the idea of an open call that continues to appeal to us: inviting artists from a wide variety of backgrounds to apply and submit their work. From this multitude of perspectives and positions, we hope to create an exhibition that shows a field of tension, but also a symbiotic dialogue between the individual works of art. An exhibition that fits in with the orientation and philosophy of the gallery, but also brings something new to our programme.

You can check out our first 10 ART MATTERS shows in the archive further down.

PS: Our next open call ART MATTERS 12 will take place in November 2024 – then again without thematic specification…

FINALE: Monday 19 August

CHEUK YIU LO – WINNER "ART MATTERS 11"

It's time to announce our decision and the winner of our 11th ART MATTERS online competition: Congratulations to Chinese artist CHEUK YIU LO (*1998, based in Hong Kong and London), who will be invited to participate with a selection of her works in our group exhibition “Animalistic" at our gallery in 2025! This is the first time an artist from China has won our competition!

We are impressed by her unique and poetic expressiveness, which her works already show despite her young age. “The Unsung Citizen“ – her resin sculpture of a duck discreetly “dressed“ in a construction worker's waistcoat – calls for a greater appreciation of the overlooked aspects of our urban environment. It highlights the importance of ducks to the ecosystem and urges the viewer to recognise the small, seemingly insignificant contributions that sustain and enrich our society. The sculpture symbolises their important role in pest control, aquatic health and recreation. "The sculpture celebrates their resilience and silent presence and encourages a more mindful and inclusive view of the community and ecosystem by recognising the essential role these ‘unsung citizens’ play in maintaining ecological balance and enriching the human experience,“ says Lo.

It’s Lo’s craftsmanship and storytelling capability that intrigues us, through which her work invites a compassionate understanding of the unseen. She creates a dialogue between the viewer and the silent narratives of those who are frequently overlooked, emphasizing the importance of empathy and social awareness.

We are fascinated by Lo's craftsmanship and her ability to tell stories, through which her work invites a compassionate understanding of the invisible. She creates a dialogue between the viewer and the silent storyteller.

CHEUK YIU LO

The Unsung Citizen, 2024
acrylic on resin
30 x 18 x 18 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 26 August: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

About Cheuk Yiu Lo ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

"The Unsung Citizen" calls for deeper appreciation of overlooked aspects of our urban environment. Highlighting the importance of ducks in London's parks, it urges viewers to acknowledge the small, seemingly insignificant contributions that sustain and enrich our society. The yellow duck with a subtle vest, mirroring a constructor's outfit, symbolizes their vital role in pest control, aquatic health, and recreation. Celebrating their resilience and quiet presence, the sculpture encourages a more mindful and inclusive view of community and ecosystem, recognizing the essential roles these 'unsung citizens' play in maintaining ecological balance and enriching human experiences.

Cheuk Yiu Lo

born 1998
lives and works in Hong Kong and London

www.locheukyiu.com
@locheukyiu_art

Artistic Background

Cheuk Yiu Lo (b. 1998) is an artist based in Hong Kong and London. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art with an MFA in Sculpture in 2023 and the Hong Kong Baptist University Academy of Visual Arts in 2020. Lo’s recent body of work focuses on the intricacies of society's overlooked aspects, human emotions, and relationships, blending these themes with a fusion of nature and humanity.

Lo’s sculptures are deeply rooted in narrative and emotional exploration, depicting scenes and figures that reflect the silent struggles and resilience of marginalized communities. Her pieces highlight themes of isolation, protection, and the power of creative expression. These works capture the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength, urging viewers to engage with the often unnoticed segments of society.

Through her craftsmanship and storytelling, Lo's art invites a compassionate understanding of the unseen. Her sculptures create a dialogue between the viewer and the silent narratives of those who are frequently overlooked, emphasizing the importance of empathy and social awareness.

Lo's practice continues to explore the harmony between the human spirit and the natural world, with an emphasis on the beauty found within vulnerability and the need for protection and care in our communities. Her work transcends the visible, offering a profound commentary on human connections and the subtleties of emotional experience.

Education

2021-23
- Distinction in MFA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK

2018-19
- Exchange study in Iceland Academy of Art, Reykjavík, Iceland

2016-20
- 1st Class Honor in BA Visual Arts, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Professional Experience

2023
- Site dresser, S2 events ltd, London

2022
- Experience Ambassador, UCL Campus Experience & Commercial Services Team, UCL

2021
- Student representative of Library committee for postgraduate sculpture, Slade UCL

2019
- Art Basel Hong Kong Booth Assistant, Cardi Gallery

Selected Exhibitions

2024
- ART MATTERS 11, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, DE “online group show“
- Nap, Anonymous, Fishing, ugg, “The Wall is Never Innocent, Unless“
- Anonymous, Gilded Reverence, Art SuperMarket “NEXA art market”

2023
- MaoMao, Gilded Reverence, Henrietta Scrine Contemporary "Weather Report“
- Dependence, Mother, In the gentle light of dawn, eyes unfurled, all is restored, Savouring the Uninvolved View, The Who Gallery "Outside of History“
- Anonymous, Aspiration, Mother, Recollection of Silhouette, Beyond the Sight, Dependence, Slade School of Fine Art "Slade MA/MFA/PHD Degree Show“
- Anonymous, UAL Chinese Society "Mind the Gap“
- Recollection of Silhouette and Greet, Subtitle Labs “Impression”
- Smoke, Slade School of Fine Art “ Slade Interim Show”

2022
- Smoke, Chinese Year Book, Mezhdunarodnyi Hudozhestvennti Fond, Sheng Shi Ge Ya Art Culture, "Time: International Contemporary Art Exhibition“
- Comer, Domestic Pulse, Cilvilized Egg Shells, Untitled, 139 Copeland Rd “The Edge of Safehouse”
- Primal, The Tub Hackney “Synthesis”
- Nature Morte is still life and Life Form, The Holy Art Gallery “Young Blood - Virtual Edition 02”

2021
- Perception, Hong Kong Ocean Park long-term display

2020
- Sky, 天河区文化艺术中心“2020 广州雕塑大展暨澳门雕塑邀请展”
- Sky, Hainan Library“守正与创新—2020‘海口美术作品展’”
- Sky, Hong Kong City Hall Central“Fresh Trend 2020”

2019
- Leave your mark, Sólvallagata 79, 101 Reykjavíkurborg, Iceland “VÍDDUR”
- Not able to calculate the sum of a continuously growing figure, but a figure of a temporary moment, HKBU Communication and Visual Arts Building

2018
- Perception, Hong Kong Vitoria Park “Hong Kong Flower Show 2018”
- Perception, HKBU Communication and Visual Arts Building
- Lion Siblings, “Marble Fable” HKBU Communication and Visual Arts Building

Selected Publications

2023
- Ocula, London Graduates 2023: Young Artists to Watch

2020
- A.M.Post Artplus, Aspiration of the "Young Heart" Revealed by Diversified Arts Creation
- CNN, Creative Class of 2020: From New York to Tokyo, art students share what it's like to graduate during a pandemic, 14 July 2020
- 我形我塑【学院展讯】香港浸会大学视觉艺术学院:2020 届雕塑本科线上毕业展
- 雕塑头条『雕塑头条』香港浸會大學視覺藝術學院雕塑專業 2020 届本科生畢業作品
- 当代雕塑香港浸会大学视觉艺术学院:2020 届雕塑本科线上毕业展

2018
- Hong Kong Baptist University News Visual Arts students showcase wood sculptures at Flower Show

Selected Collections

2020
- Über-dream – held within the HKBU Academy of Visual Art Studies Collection
- Perception – collected by Hong Kong Ocean Park

2021
- Tian – private collector

2022
- Primal, Fleeting Smoke – private collectors

2023
- Greet, Aspiration, Recollection of Silhouette, Beyond the Sight, first model of In the gentle light of dawn, eyes unfurled, all is restored – private collectors

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Cheuk Yiu Lo
The Unsung Citizen, 2024
acrylic on resin
30 x 18 x 18 cm (detail)

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OUR TOP 9 AT ONE GLANCE:

ART MATTERS 11: 9 Shortlisted Artists
Nathan Schönewolf – Björn Heyn – Johannes Rave
Eunjung Suh – Anja Segermann – Cheuk Yiu Lo
Pascal Wild – Camille Theodet & Sali Muller

Our final TOP 9 is complete – thank you for participating in our online group show "Animalistic" (from top left): Nathan Schönewolf – Björn Heyn – Johannes Rave – Eunjung Suh – Anja Segermann – Cheuk Yiu Lo – Pascal Wild – Camille Theodet & Sali Muller.

Tonight at 6pm we will announce the winner of our Art Matters 11 competition!

About ART MATTERS 11:

Even with the 11th ART MATTERS round (9 regular and 2 Special Summer Editions with thematic specification), it was not easy for us to select only 9 artists for our online exhibition from the many great submissions we received in response to our last Open Artist Call. But it was a great pleasure to discover and get to know so many great artistic positions!

We hope that this multitude of perspectives and positions results in an exhibition that shows a field of tension, but also a symbiotic dialogue between the individual works of art. An exhibition that fits in with the orientation and philosophy of our gallery, but also definitely brings something new to our programme.

There is so much remarkable art out there, but we can't show it all in our gallery. The ART MATTERS series allows us to present many artistic positions from around the world to a wider online audience for about two weeks, two to three times a year.

Many thanks to everyone who has been following this project, some for 10 editions already, and many thanks also – above all – to all participating artists, especially to our TOP 9 and the 27 Honourable Mentions (some of which we are still presenting today in our Instagram stories).

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THE 9 FINALISTS:

Sunday 18 August: Sali Muller – Finalist 9 of 9

Sali Muller
Zoovenirs, 2021
plush animals, perspex, wood
60 x 60 x 10 cm

SALI MULLER

Zoovenirs, 2021
plush animals, perspex, wood
60 x 60 x 10 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 26 August: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

It's the penultimate day of our 11th ART MATTERS online group exhibition – the theme of this Special Summer Edition is ‘Animalistic’. Before we announce the winner of our art competition tomorrow at 6pm, we are pleased to introduce the 9th of our 9 shortlisted artists today, the conceptual installation artist SALI MULLER (*1981, lives and works in Luxembourg). In her sculptural work "Zoovenirs", Muller plays with the idea of the ready-made and crams dozens of soft toys into an acrylic glass box. The combination of these everyday objects leads to new contexts and gives the theme of "childhood" a subversive meaning. Read more about Sali Muller and her work below.

We have selected a total of 9 finalists from the applications received for our last Open Artist Call. Until 18 August, we will present these artists and their submitted works one after the other here on our website and on Instagram. Every day at 6pm CET we will unveil another name and a new artwork, so that the exhibition slowly comes together as a whole.

On Monday 19 August at 6pm, we will announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in the group exhibition "Animalistic" in our gallery in Cologne in 2025.

About Sali Muller ... more >

KÜNSTLERIN-STATEMENT

Luxembourg-based conceptual installation artist Sali Muller dives into the world of self-image through materials she uses to create a reflective multiverse. While exploring unordinary ways to show co-existence with human self image and vanity, she brings a mystical vision into the phys- ical world through her implementation of mirrors, light, sound, found objects and nature inspired photography.

The artist negotiates the meaning of time-sections new and oscillates between premature, un- explained sequences and infinity. In this way she extends the well-known allegorical images of European art history and translates them into a present of fractures. She combines conceptual sculptural positions with a series of complex themes that are important for her entire creational process.

Muller uses artistic means to explore currently relevant issues, in particular those of identity, gender roles and (self-)representation in the context of social change and in times of self-optimisation. Similar to the individual attempts to distinguish ourselves in a social fabric, Sali Muller marks the exhibition spaces with light-reflecting installations, dazzling objects and projections. Her visual “comments” become a reflection of a time where delusions increasingly play a significant role.

Her artistic creations transforms the exhibition scene into a rendezvous between different times, space, and realities. From this perspective, the artwork becomes a Space-time intermediary that connects the past, the present, and the future, allowing the audience to become “Space-time Travelers”. These futuristic-sci-fi-apocalyptic scenes push us to the frontiers of the imagination. Through these liquid ‚landscapes‘ that are projecting her gaze onto the environment, emerge Ultra-Contemporary scenarios, fusing the dimensions of time and space to generate a sense of disorientation that leads us into a futuristic world.

Sali Muller

born 1981 in Luxembourg
lives and works in Kehlen, Luxembourg

www.salimuller.com
@salimullerprojects

Sali Muller studied at the UMB, University Marc Bloch in Strasbourg, France, obtaining her Master‘s degree in Visual Arts. She always related to architecture and is fascinated by uncommon geometrical shapes and objects. Those experiences paved her way into concept art, “refracting” her artworks, breaking or fragmenting them.
She was selected to take part in group exhibitions such as the Regionale at the Kunsthaus Baselland in Basel, Switzerland, the Ostrale Biennale in Germany, as well as the Luis Adelan-tado Gallery in Valencia, Spain, the Maddox Gallery in Los Angeles and the Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery and Nosbaum Reding Gallery in Luxembourg City.
She staged her first museum exhibition at the IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgium, followed by the Kallmann-Museum in Munich, Germany, the MAC Museo d‘Arte Contemporanea di Lissone in Italy, the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen in Germany, the Times Art Muse- um in Beijing, China, the Kunst Raum Riehen in Basel-Stadt, the Kunstmuseum Heidenheim in Germany, Art Quarter Budapest in Hungary and the Centre d’art Les Eglises in France. Sali‘s work is represented by galleries in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy and the United States. They have brought her work to a wider audience at established art fairs such as Volta Basel, Estampa, Enter Art, Art Miami and Art Rotterdam.
She has several recent projects such a solo show at the Macadam Gallery in Brussels and participations at the MiK Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg Germany and the Trapholt Museum in Denmark.

Education

2009
- History of Arts, University Trier, Germany

2006
- Master in Visual Arts, UMB University Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France

Selected Solo and Duo Exhibitions

2024
- Public Art Project, LTC, Luxembourg
- Nebula, Axel Pairon Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium

2023
- Solo booth, Luxembourg Art Week, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg
- Spectra, Berlin Art Week, G-allery, Berlin, Germany
- Plage de temps, Centre d’Art Les Eglises, Chelles, France

2022
- Ultra contemporary landscape, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
- Espejito, espejito, Reiners Contemporary Art, Marbella, Spain

2021
- Wenn die Sterne vom Himmel fallen, Annexe22, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
- Il était une fois..., Galerie Cédric Bacqueville, Lille, France
- Down the rabbit hole, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg

2020
- Inside, Espace d’art Susanne Savary, Thionville, France
- Here and there I Ici et là, Centre d’Art Dominique Lang, Luxembourg

2019
- Kunst im Bau, e.artis lab, Wirkbau, Chemnitz, Germany

2018
- Das Zeitfenster, CeCiL’s Box, Cercle Cité, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Fragil, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz, Germany

2017
- Museum of Vanities, IKOB, Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium
- Blackout, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz, Germany

2016
- Ecriture Sans Fin, AICA International Association of Art Critics, Kiosk, Luxembourg

2015
- Shadows, Kiosk Trier, Trier, Germany
- Die Entzauberung der Welt, 21Artstreet, Kehlen, Luxembourg

2014
- Erase Project, Galerie A Spiren, Strassen, Luxembourg

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
- ART MATTERS 11, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)
- 24! Fragen an die Konkrete Kunst, MiK Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany
- Group Show, Macadam Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2023
- Art Miami, Macadam Gallery, Miami, The United States
- A collector’s choice, Ruhr Objekt 2, Sammlung Curth, Essen, Germany
- Enter Art Fair, Galerie Hartwich, Copenhagen, Denmark
- A song in the making, Axel Pairon Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium (Duo)
- The New Abstraction, G-allery, Berlin, Germany (Duo)
- Time Reflections, Art2cure, Galerie Indépendance, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Interface, Lille Grand Palais, Lille, France

2022
- Inner Eye, Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles, The United States (Duo)
- Winterschau, Galerie Hartwich, Rügen, Germany
- Panacea, Perg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
- Ultra Contemporary ‘22, G-allery, Berlin, Germany
- Reflections / Spiegelwelten, MKK Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
- The Responsive Body, G-allery, Berlin, Germany (Duo)
- Where the sky is pink and the grass is green, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (Duo)
- Art Verona, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Verona, Italy
- Spieglein, Spieglein..., Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany
- Shapes of Effect, Galerie Filser & Gräf, Munich, Germany
- Un voyage dans le bonheur, De Chiara Projects, Artpod, CAW, Luxembourg
- Are you sure you want to leave?, Art Quarter Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Lovers in a dangerous time, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
- At the moment, Times Art Museum, Chongqing, China

2021
- Regionale 22, Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Bienvenue à la Villa!, Villa Vauban, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Prix d’Art Robert Schuman, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Soft Agitators, Saarländische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
- Luxembourg Art Week, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Estampa, Reiners Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain
- Art Marbella, Reiners Contemporary Art, Marbella, Spain
- Art Fair Dijon, Valerius Gallery, Dijon, France
- Paradoxical Objects, peer to space, Berlin, Germany
- Wavelength: At the moment, Chengdu Times Art Museum, Chengdu, China
- Atemwende, Ostrale Biennale, Dresden, Germany
- Art Rotterdam, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- If walls could talk, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
- Collezione (in) particolare, MAC Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy
- Wavelength: At the moment, Times Art Museum Beijing, Beijing, China

2020
- ART MATTERS 2, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany (online)
- Life on Tralfamadore, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
- Goldstücke, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
- Art Marbella, Reiners Contemporary Art, Marbella, Spain
- Mouvements, Galerie Cedric Bacqueville, Lille, France
- Art2cure, Galerie Indépendance, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Reclaim Award, Cologne, Germany
- And thence we came forth to see the stars again, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, - Milan, Italy
- Add-on, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
- Art Rotterdam, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Rotterdam ,The Netherlands

2019
- Strings, White Noise Gallery, Rome, Italy
- Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Bienvenue Art Fair, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
- 4/10, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium
- Spiegelungen, Gallery Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Art2cure, Galerie Indépendance, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Volta Basel, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Basel, Switzerland
- Dusk till Dawn, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
- Digital, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz, Germany

2018
- Premio Lissone, MAC Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy
- Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Spiegelungen, Projektraum Alte Feuerwache, Berlin, Germany
- Summer Exhibition, JD Malat Gallery, Mayfair, London, The United Kingdom
- Ein gemachter Mensch – Künstlerische Fragen an Identitäten, Kallmann-Museum, Munich, Germany
- Art2cure, Galerie Indépendance, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Birthmarks / Voglie, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
- Black & White, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz, Germany

2017
- Lo sguardo di Narciso, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
- Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- YIA Art Fair, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
- Luxembourg Art Prize, Galerie Hervé Lancelin, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Auto I Mobil: Epoche der Mobilität I Epoche der Kommunikation, Tufa Trier, Trier, Germany
- Aesthetica Art Prize, York, The United Kingdom

2016
- Encoding the Urban, Regionale 17, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
- XVIII, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, Spain
- Ostrale, Int. Ausstellung Zeitgenössischer Künste, Dresden, Germany
- Group Show, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg'
- 016 Aesthetica Art Prize, York, The United Kingdom

2015
- Incubarte, 7 International Art Festival, Valencia, Spain
- 8e Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Strassen, Luxembourg
- La Liberté d’Expression, Musée Nationale de la Résistance, Luxembourg
- BlauBlauBlau, Tufa Trier, Trier, Germany
- London Calling, Shoreditch, London, The United Kingdom
- The Project, Galerie Bradtke, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

2014
- Salon du CAL, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

2013
- Recall, Kjub Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Expo Urbaine Art Door, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- 7e Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Strassen, Luxembourg

Selected Collections

2024
- Private collection, Luxembourg

2023
- Private collections, Miami
- Private collections, Luxembourg
- Private collection, Copenhagen
- Private collection, Essen
- Private collection, Berlin

2022
- Private collection, Paris
- Private collections, Los Angeles

2021
- Private collection, Brazil
- Private collection, Madrid
- Private collection, Brussels
- Private collection, Milan

2020
- Villa Vauban - Musée d’Art de la Ville de Luxembourg
- Royal Caribbean International, Odyssey of the Seas
- Collections d’Art de la Ville de Dudelange
- Private Collection, Lille
- Private Collection, Milan
- Private Collection, Milan

2018
- MAC Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Lissone
- Private collection, Milan

2017
- IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art
- Private collection, Milan

2013
- Municipality of Strassen

Editionen

- IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art
- e.artis contemporary

Awards/Nominations

2021
- Prix d’Art Robert Schuman, Nomination, Saarbrücken, Germany

2020
- Reclaim Award, Cologne, Germany

2018
- Premio della Critica, MAC Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy

2017
- Luxembourg Art Prize, Finalist, Galerie Hervé Lancelin, Luxembourg
- Aesthetica Art Prize, Longlist, York, The United Kingdom

2016
- Aesthetica Art Prize, Longlist, York, The United Kingdom
- Int. Emerging Artist Award, Shortlist, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Salon de Montrouge, Shortlist, Paris, France

2015
- Blooom Award, Nomination, Cologne, Germany
- Incubarte Award, 7 International Art Festival, Valencia, Spain

2013
- Prix Jeune Artiste, 7e Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg

Publications in Libraries

- Arken Museum of Modern Art
- Arter Space for Art
- e.artis contemporary
- Galeria Elba Benitez
- IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art
- JD Malat Gallery
- Kallmann-Museum Ismaning
- Kunsthalle zu Kiel
- Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen
- Kunstmuseum Krefeld
- Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek Köln
- Künstlerhaus Dortmund
- La Galerie Centre d’Art Contemporain
- Latvian National Museum of Art
- Luis Adelantado Gallery
- Maddox Gallery Los Angeles
- MAMAC Nice
- Museum Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear
- Neues Museum Nürnberg
- Oldenburger Kunstverein
- Pasquart Kunsthaus Biel
- Reiners Contemporary Art
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- The Flat - Massimo Carasi
- Valerius Gallery

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Saturday 17 August: Camille Theodet – Finalist 8 of 9

Camille Theodet
La rencontre 3, 2024
acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm

CAMILLE THEODET

La rencontre 3, 2024
acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 26 August: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

It's day 8 of our ART MATTERS 11 online group exhibition – the theme of this Special Summer Edition is “Animalistic". Today we are pleased to introduce the 8th of our 9 finalists, French artist CAMILLE THEODET (*1995, lives and works in Berlin), whose presented painting is imbued with a primal, animalistic atmosphere. Animals are an important part of Theodet's work, as he aims to depict strong impressions and raw emotions, violence and passion. Read more about Camille Theodet and his work below.

About Camille Theodet ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am working on different compositions, mixing genres and ideas, to create a fragmented picture that can be read as a whole narration. My work is an attempt to deconstruct a feeling, an action, by confronting subjects, focusing on a single moment. My creative process involves intertwining disparate images with different concepts, to construct visual allegories. I am aiming to create analogies that deliberately maintain a certain ambiguity between subjects and genres.

Animals are an important part of my work, as I want to depict strong impressions and raw feelings, violence, and passion. I am looking for a primal atmosphere, drawing upon the inherent sensuality in the animal behaviour and its interplay with human tendencies. I am mostly interested in the hunter/hunted play, the chase, the prey, the form of affection as well as courtship rituals.

Having an interest in erotism, the human and its body, its desires and feelings held deep within, I focus a lot of my work on those senses. I like to repurpose images from our world and change its aesthetic, by playing with its contrast, soften it, to bring it to a more photographic quality. I am looking for a connection between the visuals and bring out deep human emotions. I blur the borders between the genres, to create allegories of ideas that I can not express in just one image.

My work is a constant show of personal existential matters and concerns, and each picture is an attempt to capture the essence of an emotion, an action, a fleeting moment imbued with subtle nuances.

Camille Theodet

born 1995 in Paris
lives and works in Berlin

@camille_theodet.art

Born in 1995 in the suburbs of Paris, France, Camille did first Fine Art studies (bachelor) before entering a private school of Special effects makeup. After playing with different mediums and trying ways to express himself, it became clear that painting and drawing were the main mediums to be used.
He decided to move to Berlin in 2017, where he is now residing and working.
His work has been exhibited in Germany, Denmark, Greece, The UK and the USA.

Education

- EPCM Metamorphoses, 67000 Strasbourg, France
2016-2017: Certificate
Training of special effects makeup and wigmaker

- EESI Ecole Européenne Supérieure de l’Image, 86000 Poitiers, France
European superior school of picture
2013-2016: DNAP Fine art Diploma, bachelor

- Gué-à-Tresmes, 77, France
2013: A level of applied arts

Selected Solo and Duo Exhibitions

2024
- Sides of a coin, duo show, The Split Gallery, London, United Kingdoms, 17.04.2024 - 05.05.2024

2023
- ROTE SALON - KITKAT club, Berlin, Germany, 30.05.2023 - 04.06.2023
- Retramp Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 6.04.2023 16.04.2023
- The universal bath - fashion show Berlin fashion week 2023 - collaboration with fashion designer Jakeyoung Shim, Acceptance letter studio - Studio Chérie, Berlin, Germany, 16.01.2023

2022
- LITE-HAUS Gallery, raum 1, Berlin, Germany, 13.10.2022 – 29.10.2022

2018
- Ich sehe in dich hinein – Zeit Zone Galerie, Berlin, 2018

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
- Delphian 2024 winners exhibition, Delphian Gallery X Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK, 10.2024
- Group exhibition / Auction for ART4GOOD, Manchester, UK, 26-31.10.2024
- Group exhibition, The Eye Altering Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece, 27.09.24 - 25.10.2024
- Group exhibition Nit de l’art Palma 2024, Gallery a66, Sentanyi, Mallorca, Spain, 09.2024
- ART MATTERS 11, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online), Germany, 10. - 19.08.2024
- Summer exhibition, Gallery a66, Sentanyi, Mallorca, Spain, 08.2024
- Midsommar, GR-Gallery, New York City, USA, 01.08.2024 - 24.08.2024
- Art Auction 12, Weserhalle, Berlin, Germany, 23.06.24 - 30.06.24
- BAAM 7, Monopol, Berlin, Germany, 07.06.2024 - 09.06.2024
- Winter selection, Untergeschoss der Pandora Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 21.01.2024 - 02.03.2024

2023
- Christmas exhibition - Artzzz Studio, Berlin, Germany, 01.12.2023 - 24.12.2023
- INTERFACE, Zemin Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 04.08.2023 - 20.08.2023
- Summer selection - Untergeschoss der Pandora Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 15.07.2023 - 02.09.2023
- Summer exhibition - Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Kettinge, Denmark, 24.06.2023 - 20.08.2023
- Adult / Play + 48HR NEUKÖLLN, LITE-HAUS Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 15.06.2023 - 1.07.2023
- Spring group exibition, LITE-HAUS Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 13.04.2023 - 30.04.2023
- Shadows, Chromart project space, Berlin, Germany, 25.01.2023 - 08.02.2023

2022
- End of year exhibition, LITE-HAUS Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 15.12.2022 - 14.01.2023
- Young blood, Chromart project space, Berlin, Germany, 03.08.2022 - 14.08.2022
- Summer exhibition – Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Kettinge, Denmark, 06.2022 – 10.2022
- Pop-up exhibition, The Ballery, Berlin, Germany, 20.05.2022 – 28.05.2022
- FACES, LITE-HAUS Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 21.04.2022 – 15.05.2022
- Fine Condiments pop-up shop / exhibition – 19- 20.03.2022
- LITE-HAUS Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 17.02.2022 – 19.03.2022
- GODDESS, LITE-HAUS Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 02.12.2021 – 29.01.2022

2021
- SCOUT 2021, Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Kettinge, Denmark, 2021-2022
- Haze Art Bazaar 2021, Haze Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 15.09.2021 -19.09.2021
- Pop up Art season exhibition – The Ballery, Berlin, Germany, 20.08.2021 – 28.08.2021
- Fresh Legs 2021 – Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Berlin, Germany, 02.06.2021 – 02.10.2021

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Friday 16 August: Pascal Wild – Finalist 7 of 9

Pascal Wild
Flügel der Ambivalenz, 2024
acrylic on canvas
140 x 80 cm

PASCAL WILD

Flügel der Ambivalenz, 2024
acrylic on canvas
140 x 80 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 26 August: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

It is the 7th day of our 11th online group exhibition ART MATTERS – the special summer edition is on the theme "Animalistic". Today, we are pleased to present the 7th shortlisted artist (from 9): the German painter PASCAL WILD (*1991, lives and works in Berlin). His work (the title translates as "Wings of Ambivalence") is a colourful mixture of ‘my child can do that too’ and contemporary art and reflects life in a society full of contrasts and conflicts. Read more about Pascal Wild and his work below.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Something between „my kid can do that too“ and contemporary art

Pascal Wild, (orig. Alexander), has used his middle name to create a new personality separate from his existing identity. The question of who you are, and when? Alex or Pascal. This is also reflected in his art. The constant search for his own identity or his inner child, in a colorful mixture, in subtle naivety in acrylic on canvas, the artist deals above all with the dichotomy of his two identities, the extremes of the big city and the longing for nature. The struggle between good and evil, the reflection of indoctrinated behavior, what can, what must? Desire and addiction, very close to each other, combined in a colorful mixture, often with a wink of the eye, quite freely according to the understanding: my kid can do that too.

Pascal completed his bachelor‘s degree in communication design at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences. Originally working as a designer,
he discovered his love for painting during the Corona pandemic and has continued to develop it ever since. Pascal was born in 1991 and lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Pascal Wild

born 1991
lives and works in Berlin

www.pascalwild.com
@pascal__wild

Selected Exhibitions

2024
- ART MATTERS 11, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)
- Art Lab, Group Exhibition, Galerie Benjamin Eck, Munich
- Art Spring, Open Studio, Prenzlauer Promenade, Berlin
- PopUp Exhibition, KaDeWe, Berlin
- Live Painting Event, KaDeWe, Berlin
- Group Exhibition, Gallery 1565, Hamburg

2023
- Group Exhibition, Culterim Gallery, Berlin
- AL DENTE, Group Exhibition, Berlin
- Art Spring, Open Studio, Prenzlauer Promenade, Berlin
- Art Walk, AOK Nordost – Servicecenter Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin

2022
- Group Exhibition, Anomalie Art Point, Anomalie Art Club, Berlin
- Group Exhibition, Culterim Gallery, Berlin
- Group Exhibition “Ausstellung für Frieden und Solidarität”, Culterim Gallery, Berlin
- Group Exhibition, Culterim Gallery, Berlin
- Live Painting with Tangobravo (Band), Berlin
- Group Exhibition “Ausstellung für Frieden und Solidarität”, Backhaus Project, Berlin
- Group Exhibition “Ausstellung für Frieden und Solidarität”, Feldfünf, Berlin

2021
- “Ein wilder Sommer” with Erold Sommer, Green Hill Gallery, Berlin

Curating

2024
- Curating of the first Solo Show of Vasil Berela, BBA Gallery, Berlin

2023
- Curating of AL DENTE, Group Exhibition, Berlin

Residencies

2023
- Artist residency Biesenthal, Culterim, Biesenthal

Other

2023
- Benefits auction for Kinderhospitz, Zalando, Berlin
- Launch of artist slipper „Nice Nice“ with 030COLLABORATION

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Thursday 15 August: Cheuk Yiu Lo – Finalist 6 of 9

CHEUK YIU LO

The Unsung Citizen, 2024
acrylic on resin
30 x 18 x 18 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 26 August: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

On day 6 of our online group exhibition ART MATTERS 11 on the theme "Animalistic", we are happy to present the 6th finalist (out of 9): the Chinese artist CHEUK YIU LO (*1998, lives and works in Hong Kong and London). Lo’s yellow duck sculpture – discreetly dressed in a construction worker's waistcoat – refers to the essential role that this "unsung citizen’ plays in maintaining the ecological balance and enriching the human experience. Read more about Cheuk Yiu Lo and her work below.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Cheuk Yiu Lo

born 1998
lives and works in Hong Kong and London

www.locheukyiu.com
@locheukyiu_art

Artistic Background

Education

2021-23
- Distinction in MFA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK

2018-19
- Exchange study in Iceland Academy of Art, Reykjavík, Iceland

2016-20
- 1st Class Honor in BA Visual Arts, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

Professional Experience

2023
- Site dresser, S2 events ltd, London

2022
- Experience Ambassador, UCL Campus Experience & Commercial Services Team, UCL

2021
- Student representative of Library committee for postgraduate sculpture, Slade UCL

2019
- Art Basel Hong Kong Booth Assistant, Cardi Gallery

Selected Exhibitions

2021
- Perception, Hong Kong Ocean Park long-term display

Selected Publications

2023
- Ocula, London Graduates 2023: Young Artists to Watch

2018
- Hong Kong Baptist University News Visual Arts students showcase wood sculptures at Flower Show

Selected Collections

2020
- Über-dream – held within the HKBU Academy of Visual Art Studies Collection
- Perception – collected by Hong Kong Ocean Park

2021
- Tian – private collector

2022
- Primal, Fleeting Smoke – private collectors

2023
- Greet, Aspiration, Recollection of Silhouette, Beyond the Sight, first model of In the gentle light of dawn, eyes unfurled, all is restored – private collectors

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Wednesday 14 August: Anja Segermann – Finalist 5 of 9

Anja Segermann
Hides, 2022
Fine-Art-Print
80 x 60 cm (sheet unframed, edition of 8)

ANJA SEGERMANN

Hides, 2022
Fine-Art-Print (edition of 8)
80 x 60 cm (sheet unframed)

The work is available through our gallery until 26 August: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

On the 5th day of our online group exhibition ART MATTERS 11 we are pleased to present the 5th finalist on our theme "Animalistic": the German photo artist ANJA SEGERMANN (*1993, lives and works in Osnabrück and Bremen). Her photographic work "Hides" shows leather skins in the process of tanning. Segermann's compositional style seems to dissolve proportions, focussing on the organic material and its structures. Read more about Anja Segermann and her work below.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

In her work, Anja Segermann repeatedly explores the relationship between people and their environment. Her focus is on the intersection of nature and culture. She is interested in aspects of transformation and how cultural identities are formed and changed as a result. The photograph "Hides", for example, shows leather skins in the process of tanning. Segermann's type of composition seems to dissolve proportions; it is about the observation of the organic material and its structures.

Anja Segermann

born 1993
lives and works in Osnabrück and Bremen, DE

www.anjasegermann.de
@anja.seg

Education

2020-23
- Master of Arts, Integrated Design, Studio Culture and Identity, Bremen University of the Arts, Prof. Peter Bialobrzeski, Prof. Andrea Rauschenbusch

2016-20
- Bachelor of Arts, Photography, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, Prof. Elisabeth Neudörfl, Prof. Gisela Bullacher

Awards & Scholarships

2024
- Belfast Photo Festival, Photo-Book-Winner

2023
- Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, Silber
- Frese Design Preis, Honorary Mention
- Hamburg Portfolio Review, Participant
- Photworks, Photography+ The Graduate Issue
- Der Neue BFF-Förderpreis, 3. Platz

2020-23
- Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Stipendium

2019
- Marianne Ingenwerth-Stiftung, Stipendium
- Vonovia Award für Fotografie, Shortlist (Newcomer)

2019-2020
- Deutschlandstipendium

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
- ART MATTERS 11, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)
- Schichten, FAUNA, Umweltfotofestival, Horizonte Zingst
- Schichten, Photo Book, Belfast Photo Festival
- Schichten, Tournee Deutscher Fotobuchpreis

2023
- who cares, Der Neue BFF-Förderpreis, Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe
- Papers, Studio R116 Art, Berlin

2022
- who cares, Der Neue BFF-Förderpreis, Haus der Wirtschaft Stuttgart
- who cares, Der Neue BFF-Förderpreis, Umweltfotofestival, Horizonte Zingst Dickicht, Paradies, Galerie Mitte Bremen

2021
- Membra Disiecta, Folkwang Finale, Welterbe Zollverein, Essen
- Membra Disiecta, Call it a Book, KOP.12, Essen

2020
- Birihha, A List of Distractions, Welterbe Zollverein, Essen
- F-Plan, Zuhause, Kunstmuseum Bochum

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Tuesday 13 August: Eunjung Suh – Finalist 4 of 9

Eunjung Suh
Dog Wine Holder, 2023
glazed ceramics, white liquid gold, steel, found glass, suede cord
38,5 x 20 x 22,5 cm

EUNJUNG SUH

Dog Wine Holder, 2023
glazed ceramics, white liquid gold, steel, found glass, suede cord
38,5 x 20 x 22,5 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 26 August: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

Day 4 of our ART MATTERS 11 online group exhibition on the theme of "Animalistic" and we are pleased to present the 4th shortlisted artist (from 9) EUNJUNG SUH (*1983, lives and works in Seoul). Her ceramic sculpture (including found objects) captures the ordinary in a subtle and ironic way, presenting a "human animal world". Read more about Eunjung Suh and her work below.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Eunjung Suh’s body of work is a constant exploration of shadow parts of the human mind. She creates her own stories by using a sense of humour. All of fear, absurdity, brutality and vulnerability are melted and redirected into her work in an intimate tone. In detail, she explores everyday life, capturing from subtle and ironic feelings of the day to the common landscape including street animals which represent rough and wild qualities.

In the process, she usually starts with her scribbles and builds sculptures primarily based on ceramic. Eunjung makes space for the accidental effects formed by the nature of clay and glazes during the drying and firing process. The cracks, bubbles and flow movement of the surface of the body gives raw material qualities suggesting a primitive human mind.

She sometimes brings the individual work in one place by mixing up randomly or stacking up which is far away from the original place. Through this, she stresses the acoustic feature of the unconsciousness again and converts it into the conduction that viewers can handle it in their conscious life, causing nonsense to viewers.

Eunjung Suh

born 1983
lives and works in Seoul, KOR

www.eunjungsuh.co.uk
@eeun.jung

Education

2006
- BA Korea National University of Arts, Seoul

2018
- MA Print, Royal College of Art, London

Selected Group Exhibition

2024
- Strange Conversation, Gallery Coso, Seoul
- ART MATTERS 11, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)

2023
- PERIGEE WINTER SHOW, Perigee Gallery, Seoul
- What is Dust/ Dust is What/ Dust is Dust, Project Space Yeongdeungpo, Seoul

2020
- FIREWALK, Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris
- EXAGGERATE EVERYTHING, BACKLIT Gallery, Nottingham

2019
- WHO_WHO, Geueotteon Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
- Korean Contemporary Prints Association Competition, Kookmin Art Gallery, Seoul
- Fresh 2019, British Ceramic Biennial, Stoke-on-trent, UK
- Virtual Show #60: CHLORINE TIDAL WAVES, Filed Project Gallery, NY, USA
http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/chlorine-tidal-wave-online
- Sous le soleil exactement..., Épidaure, Montpellier, France
- (In)visible, Espacio Gallery, London

2018
- Something Called Home, King Street Studios, Lancaster, UK
- Get It Arts 2018, Base Gallery, London
- Hold Your Horses, CGP, London

2017
- Under the SEE, The Crypt Gallery London
- Output, CGP London, London

Award

2019
- Excellence Prize, Call For Emerging Artists at Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association

Publications

2020
- Pinocchio’s Got Nothing On You @brokengreywires

2019
- Psycho book @brokengreywires

2018
- Wotisart Magazine

Public Collection

- Royal College of Art Special Collections, London, UK

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Monday 12 August: Johannes Rave – Finalist 3 of 9

Johannes Rave
Living Object, 2020
watercolour on paper (Somerset 500gr)
89 x 59 cm (sheet unframed)

JOHANNES RAVE

Living Object, 2020
watercolour on paper (Somerset 500gr)
89 x 59 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 26 August: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

It's the 3rd day of our ART MATTERS 11 online group exhibition: Today we present the German artist JOHANNES RAVE (*1955, lives and works in Stuttgart) on the theme of "Animalistic". His watercolour "Living Object" shows abstract, associatively charged forms that reflect the idea of "animalistic" rather than depicting the animal itself. Read more about Johannes Rave and his work below.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

At the centre of my painting are pictures with watercolours on paper. For years I have been interested in how colours come into their own on different types of paper, how they relate to other colours, how they recede or come to the fore. In other works, the tension in the picture is created by overlapping areas of colour.

Lines have become increasingly important in recent years; they have the task of creating order in the compositions or even disrupting order.

In the paintings on canvas, which make up another large part of my work, there is also an interplay between volatilisation and solidification, only with different technical means.

I tend towards abstract forms, but they are often associative, i.e. they can or should be reminiscent of objects or people, usually without naming them. The same applies to landscapes and sections of nature. They do not depict nature, but reflect it as an idea of nature.

Despite this creative freedom, it is all about commitment. A picture should achieve clarity at the end of the process, regardless of which genre it belongs to. Even in the interplay of calm and restlessness, of dynamism and reflection, it is ultimately about clear painterly decisions.

Johannes Rave

born 1955 in St. Georgen/Schwarzwald, DE
lives and works in Stuttgart und Ludwigsburg, DE

www.johannesrave.de
@johannesrave

Education and Biographical Information

1978-86
- Studied painting + Graphics at the Stuttgart Art Academy with Rudolf Schoofs

1992
- Scholarship of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg

2001
- Founding of the art+ gallery, which specialises in art in companies.

2009-1212
- Studio in Thailand

ab 2021
- Photo documentation of art activities with young people in public spaces

ab 2022
- YFOS – Young Faces of Stuttgart in collaboration with Karima Klasen, a mobile portrait studio in which young people are portrayed and interviewed about their situation.

2024
- Invitation to an artist residency at the Watercolour Museum in Sweden (August/September)

Selected Exhibitions

2024
- ART MATTERS 11, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)
- in preparation for November/December: ARD, Cairo, artist residency and exhibition

2023
- Doris Nöth. Ein Leben für die Kunst, Städtische Galerie Ehingen
- Berührung, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

2021
- Prolog, Unentdeckte Inseln, Satellit, Stuttgart (Solo Exhibition)
- Sehen was ist, Kunstmuseum Singen
- Die Nacht, Kunstverein Backnang

2019
- Ohne Auftrag, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart im Rathaus Stuttgart
- Könnte aber doch , Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

2018
- Postcards from the Edge (20th Annual) New York, USA
- Anonyme Zeichner 2018, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
- Künstlerhaus Stuttgart zu Gast in Waldenbuch

2017
- The Mini Suns of London, Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart (Solo Exhibition plus Book Edition)
- Neue Begegnungen mit der Sammlung Nöth, Städtische Galerie Ehingen

2016
- Postcards from the Edge (18th Annual) New York, USA
- Ich sehe, was du nicht siehst, Städtische Galerie Ehingen

2015
- Nach vorne sammeln, Galerie Nöth, Kirchheim/Teck
- Anonyme Zeichner, Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Galerie Geyso20, Braunschweig, artQ13, Rome, Italy

2013
- Das Antlitz!, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

2012
- Die immer wiederkehrende Freude des Ankommens, Städtische Galerie Ehingen

2010
- Jede Landschaft hat ihre Geheimnisse, Galerie Kränzl, Gaienhofen/Horn (Solo Exhibition)
- Kunst im Khao Yai, Art Project in Thailand

2009
- Singenkunst 2009, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Singen
- Wahlverwandtschaften. Museum and Städtische Galerie im Kornhaus

2008
- Du und ich – ich und du, Lothar Späth Förderpreis, Städtische Galerie in der Kulturfabrik Schopfheim
- Kombinat, Stipendiaten der Kunststiftung BW im Galerienhaus, Stuttgart
- Johannes Rave, Rudolf Schoofs Galerie Kränzl Göppingen (Solo Exhibition)

2002
- Aus der Mitte der Sammlung – Ausgewählte Arbeiten der Sammlung Nöth, Galerie der Stadt Wendlingen
- Accrochage, Galerie Kinter, Remshalden

2001
- erKennenLernen Einblicke in die Sammlung Nöth, Franziskanerkloster Ehingen
- Begegnungen, Schloss und Stadthalle Wehr
- Wasserfarben, Galerie der Stadt Waiblingen, (Solo Exhibition)
- Stuttgarter Fotosommer bei Südwesttextil, Stuttgart, (Photographie) (Solo Exhibition)
- Zeichnungen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

2000
- Im Schatten Galerie Grashey, Konstanz (Solo Exhibition)
- Drei Räume, drei Maler, Galerie 14.1, Stuttgart
- Ausstellungsreihe “lokal-global”: Ahmad Rafi & Johannes Rave, Galerie im Thalhaus, Wiesbaden, Unterwegs Galerie 14-1, Stuttgart (Solo Exhibition)
- Überblick Galerie Peter Herrmann, Berlin
- Art Bodensee, Dornbirn mit Galerie14-1
- Gabriele Morschett – Johannes Rave – Regine Walter. Galerie Grashey, Konstanz
- Dialoge - Gegenwartskunst in Wehr, Stadtmuseum, Altes Schloss
- Beitrag zu „Flüchtige Verfestigung“ von Nicole Guiraud im Hessischen Rundfunk, Frankfurt

1999
- Malerei (mit Johannes Lacher), Galerie Grashey, Konstanz
- Aktuelle Kunst im Kreis Ludwigsburg, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg
- Im Schatten, Städtische Galerie Ostfildern (Solo Exhibition)

1998
- September: Schatten, Galerie 14-1, Stuttgart (Solo Exhibition)

1997
- QuerSehenDenken, Ausgewählte Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Nöth in der Galerie der Stadt Wendlingen
- Kleine Zwischenschau, Galerie Grashey, Konstanz (Solo Exhibition)
- Jedermann in Vietnam, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen im alten Rathaus Maichingen (Solo Exhibition)
- August, Galerie Peter Herrmann, Stuttgart (Solo Exhibition)

1996
- Accrochage, Galerie im Stettener Schloß
- Gullivers Reisen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

1995
- Art Frankfurt mit Galerie Grashey
- Dreizehn, Galerie Grashey, Konstanz

1994
- Der neue Adam. Pforzheim Hohenwart, Iserlohn, Kassel, Hannover, Berlin
- Kunststiftung, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart (Solo Exhibition)

1993
- Drei Stuttgarter Künstler, Galerie von Kolczynski
- Wege, Stadthalle, Wehr
- Luftfahrt und andere Reisen, Galerie Grashey, Konstanz (Solo Exhibition)
- Stipendiaten der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg. Kunsthalle Mannheim, Wiesensteig, Aalen, Offenburg, Lörrach, Baden-Baden, Esslingen, Engen

1992
- Galerie von Kolczynski, Stuttgart (Solo Exhibition)
- Accrochage – Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Grashey, Konstanz

1991
- Galerie unterm Turm, Stuttgart
- Umspannwerk 5, Singen

1990
- Afrika – Als mein Großonkel in Rumänien war, Galerie Nöth, Kirchheim (Solo Exhibition)

1989
- Galerie Brigitte Wetter, Stuttgart (Solo Exhibition)

1987
- 103. Kunstausstellung im Rathaus Waiblingen
- Alpirsbacher Galerie. Alpirsbach
- Umspannwerk 1, Singen
- Das künstlerische Schaffen rund um den Untersee, Allensbach

1986
- 3 Künstler, Galerie Walz und Wetter, Stuttgart

1984
- Stadt Istres en Provence, France

1983
- Junge Malerei der Region, Galerie Vayhinger, Radolfzell-Möggingen

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Sunday 11 August: Björn Heyn – Finalist 2 of 9

Björn Heyn
Bremer Musikant*innen, 2024
oil, rabbit glue, pigment on canvas + artist frame
280 x 130 cm
photos: Jannis Uffrecht

BJÖRN HEYN

Bremer Musikant*innen, 2024
oil, rabbit glue, pigment on canvas + artist frame
230 x 180 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 26 August: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

Day 2 of our 11th ART MATTERS online group exhibition: Today we are happy to present the German artist BJÖRN HEYN (*1992, lives and works in Berlin) on the subject of "Animalistic". His 4-part painting installation is a humorous take on the "Town Musicians of Bremen" (German: Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten), the German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1819. Read more about Björn Heyn and his work below.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

People in their immediate surroundings.
Björn Heyn creates access to our living environments.
From a childlike involvement, he plays through the big biographical questions.
Björn's art creates a humorous surface under which people's stories can unfold with astonishing closeness.

In his artistic work, the works are like the people themselves, they are regularly concerned with understanding and being understood, but at the same time misunderstanding is the rule.

Björn's art torpedoes the relevance of an ultimate answer to the big questions and opens up our contradictory world into the eternal-childlike senses and states of mind.

Text: Fred Unruh

Björn Heyn

born 1992
lives and works in Berlin

www.bjoernheyn.de
@bjoernheyn

Selected Exhibitions and Projects

2024
- ART MATTERS 11, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)
- Me, mysel & Ei, Raab Galerie, Berlin

2023
- How to try? (hard), mit Kevin Lüdicke, Kulturmühle Perwenitz, Brandenburg
- Hammer Show at Zuostant, Berlin

2022
- Bitte, Danke!, mit Studio Huette, Galerie Durchgang, Basel
- TALKING...& Other Banana Skins, UrbanNation Museum, Berlin
- Un voyage dans le bonheur, An ongoing Journey, Le CAW, Luxembourg
- +eins Group Show by Studio Huette, Berlin

2021
- Play, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

2020
- Studio Huette X Kunsthalle(n) Toggenburg, Switzerland
- It Takes Two To Tango, BCG, Berlin
- Sammlung Huette, Berlin

2019
- WESER Halle, Berlin
- OHM 41, Kunsthalle Wil, Switzerland
- Habitat Happy, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin
- Moabit Stories 2, ZKU, Berlin

2018
- Parabéns!, ECM Gallery, Lisbon
- Sammlung Berndt, Kulturmühle Perwenitz e.V, Brandenburg

2017
- Guest Student, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Lisbon

Künstler-Residenzen

- Campo Altissimo, Azzano Italy 2023
- Kunsthaus Bella Martha, Germany 2023
- Rittergut Dahlewitz, Germany 2021
- Kunsthalle Below, Germany 2020
- DOGO Residenz für neue Kunst, Switzerland 2019
- Kulturmühle Perwenitz e.V., Germany 2018
- Roundabout LX. Lissabon, Portugal 2018

Scholarship

- Stiftung Kunstfonds 2022

Important Projects

- Founder of Studio Huette e.V. 2019

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Saturday 10 August: Nathan Schönewolf – Finalist 1 of 9

Nathan Schönewolf
COW WON'T HURT YOU, 2023
Polylactide (FDM print)
25 x 25 x 12 cm
(edition of 5 + 2 AP)
photo: Luisa Stricker

NATHAN SCHÖNEWOLF

COW WON'T HURT YOU, 2023
Polylactide (FDM print)
25 x 25 x 12 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 26 August: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

Kick-off: We begin our 11th ART MATTERS online group exhibition on the theme of "Animalistic" with the presentation of German artist NATHAN SCHÖNEWOLF (*1993, lives and works in Cologne). His sculptural work – an ambiguous hybrid figure – combines digital techniques with sculptural elements and shows an interplay of organic forms and anthropomorphic elements. Read more about Nathan Schönewolf and his work below.

About Nathan Schönewolf ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

This sculptural work shows an interplay of organic forms and anthropomorphic elements. The central figure in a warm pink colour adopts a dynamic posture. The rounded volumes are reminiscent of both the curved contours of a bovine body and human musculature. Mushroom-like outgrowths sprout from this ambiguous hybrid figure, appearing to spiral outwards and evoking associations of growth and transformation. The structured surface reinforces the biological impression and is reminiscent of tissue or encrusted skin. The process of creating the work combines digital techniques with sculptural elements. The basic form was modelled digitally, while vector calculations were used to create the complex, proliferating shapes on the central mass.

The forms appear natural, while their mathematical basis refers to human intervention and technological processes. The work illustrates the permeable boundaries between biological, crafted and computer-generated realities. By merging these seemingly contradictory elements, established views of what is considered "natural" are challenged. The integration of organic forms emphasises the constructed nature of such distinctions. The title COW WON'T HURT YOU refers to the melancholic attitude of the creature and thematises the examination of the fragility of affect and hedonistic forms of dullness.

Nathan Schönewolf

born 1993 in Cologne, DE
lives and works in Cologne

www.nathanschoenewolf.de
@prettywolfx

Education

2015-23
- Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) with Julia Scher and Johannes Wohnseifer

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023
- like everything else, I will lose you eventually, GLAASMOOG – Raum für Kunst und Diskurs, Cologne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
- ART MATTERS 11, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)
- BRANCHING STREAMS. SKETCHES OF KINSHIP, 15th edition of Biennal of Contemporary African Art, Musée Théodore Monod d'art africain, Place Soweto, Dakar

2023
- KHM auf der ART COLOGNE 2023, Cologne
- Giardino Segreto, La Felce, Cologne
- Secret Garden, WEYER51, Cologne

2021
- AVYSS COCOON, Club Asia, Tokyo
- Disarmed By Three Giant Rosy Pebbles, mit Marious Pavlou, GOLD&BETON, Cologne

2018
- COLLUMINA, MAKK_Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne

Prizes and Grants

2022
- Erasmus Scholarship for Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
- „Auf geht’s“ Scholarship, MKW, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen

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ART MATTERS 10

Online Group Exhibition

6 – 15 April 2024 (extended until Sunday 21 April)

1 new artist daily at 6pm CET

exclusively on: galerie-biesenbach.de, Instagram and Facebook

FINALE: Monday 15 April at 6pm CET

We announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne.

About ART MATTERS 10 ... more >

Following our 10th Open Artist Call, we launch our new ART MATTERS online group exhibition on Saturday 6 April at 6pm CET. From all applications received, we have selected 9 finalists, who will be presented with their submitted artworks on our website, Instagram and Facebook, one after the other until 14 December. Every day at 6pm CET, a new name and artwork will be unveiled so that the exhibition slowly comes together as a whole. The presentation of our Top 9 is rounded off by the "Honourable Mentions" in our daily Instagram stories, in which we acknowledge the works of a selected number of artists who just missed the final cut (27, to be exact, posted in our Instagram stories from 7 to 15 April, 3 per day and between noon and 6pm).

Finals Day: On Monday 15 April at 6pm, we will announce winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery space in Cologne.

We invite you to visit ART MATTERS 10 regularly here on our website, Instagram and Facebook.

About our ART MATTERS series:
Just like with our first 9 open artist call projects since April 2020 (8 regular and one special edition in summer 2023), we were aware how versatile and eclectic this 10th online exhibition could be. But it is precisely the idea of an open call that still appeals to us: to invite artists from the most diverse directions to apply and submit their work. From this multitude of perspectives and positions, we look forward to get an exhibition that shows a field of tension but also a symbiotic dialogue between the individual artworks. An exhibition that matches the direction and philosophy of the gallery, but also brings something new to our programme.

You can check out our first 9 ART MATTERS shows in the archive further down.

PS: Our next open call will take place in July/August 2024…

FINALE: Monday 15 April

HEIKE WEBER – WINNER "ART MATTERS 10"

It is time to announce our decision and declare the winner of our 10th ART MATTERS online competition: We congratulate the German sculptor and painter HEIKE WEBER (*1973), who will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery with a selection of her works in early 2025 (TBD)! This is the first time that an artist from our hometown of Cologne has won!

Heike Weber has been among our ART MATTERS finalists several times in the past and we have been able to get to know and appreciate her work – encompassing concrete spatial sculptures made of ceramic, steel and bronze, as well as wall works made of aluminium and paintings – better and better. It is above all her small-format ceramic sculptures with their concrete curved lines and seemingly effortless compositions that fascinate and inspire us.

By combining individual, similar shapes, Weber creates minimalist objects with interior spaces. The sculptures grow into a new whole, a sometimes seemingly organic abstract object, a spatial work. Through the way in which the connections are made, they develop their own formal language, which we as viewers seek to explore.

Concrete spaces are created through the connection of clear forms, arches form a space, they harbour an interior and form a protective space for the interior directed outwards. Abstract and playful at the same time.

HEIKE WEBER

3 Bögen um die Ecke | konkret | schwarz, 2024

fired black clay, matte black glaze

29 x 14 x 12 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 21 April: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

About Heike Weber ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

The spatial sculptures develop their own formal language through the way in which the connections are made, displaying a complexity and three-dimensionality; they fit into the space with an unobtrusive lightness, forming a space of their own.

By connecting individual arches, new objects with interior spaces are created. The sculptures grow into a new whole as they are worked on. Interior spaces are created by connecting arches, these become tangible and give the form a surrounding space and its own aura. Heike Weber plays with form and space in an irritatingly calming way.

Heike Weber

1971 born in Nürtingen, DE
lives and works in Cologne, DE

www.heike-weber-koeln.de
@heikeweber.cologne

Born in Nürtingen, resident in Cologne since 1999, employed in various agencies and trading companies in the marketing sector, since 2005 Free Art School Cologne, various artistic training courses in painting and sculpture, basic and postgraduate studies, Sculpture Hall Bonn, Paul Advena, since 2014 regular exhibition of painting in public and private spaces, since 2019 exhibition activities with sculptures and sculptures. Further training in porcelain, glaze and steel welding techniques.
2021 Founding of the Signalwerk art centre studio in Frechen.

Memberships:
GEDOK Bonn
Sculpture Network
Sculpture project space
Frechen Art Association

Education & Experience

2022
Studio foundation | Signalwerk Frechen Art Centre | Advanced training in glazing techniques

2020-21
Advanced Class | Sculpture Hall Bonn | Welding Course | Advanced Training Porcelain Casting

2019-20
Postgraduate studies | Bildhauerhalle Bonn

2014-19
Basic studies in sculpture | Bildhauerhalle Bonn bei Paul Advena

2012-14
Various further artistic training courses | trimester sculpture with Sebastian Probst, Cologne

since 2007
Mixed techniques on canvas

2005-07
Study of painting | Freie Kunstschule Köln

Selected Exhibitions

2024
- Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, ART MATTERS 10 (G, online)
- M.A.S.H. Galerie, Remagen (S)
- Kunstverein Duisburg (G)
- OPEN ART Schwerte (G)
- Alt St. Ulrich, Frechen, „Es wechseln die Zeiten“ FrühjahrsKunstSalon (G)

2023
- Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne | ART MATTERS 8 (G, online)
- G.I.Z. Bonn, GEDOK (G)
- Schloss Burgau „so blau wie...“ (G)
- offene Ateliers Frechen (G)
- Künstlerforum Bonn „ineinanderfließen“ (G)
- Wandelhallen Reutlingen „ineinanderfließen“ (G)
- Kunsthafen Rhenania „Gemischte Tüte“ Kabinett West (G)
- Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne | ART MATTERS 7 (G, online)
- Stadtwerke Galerie Troisdorf | „Fast Vergessen“ | GEDOK Bonn
- Signalwerk Frechen | FrühjahrsKunstSalon | „Na und!?“
- Kunstverein Bad Godesberg | Glaskarree | (G)

2021
- Kunstzentrum Signalwerk, Frechen | offene Ateliers
- Bildhauerhalle Bonn | Projektraum Skulptur
- ArtFair Luxembourg | VanGoghArtGallery, Madrid

2020
- Bildhauerhalle Bonn | Verdichtung und Auflösung

2019
- Bildhauerhalle Bonn | Werkschau

since 2014
- permanent exhibitions of my paintings in public and private spaces

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OUR TOP 9 AT ONE GLANCE:

Petra Schmidt – Kirsi Kivivirta – Michael Francis Ryan
Nanou Dupuis – Azim F. Becker – Amelia Nin
Heike Weber – Clara Lemos – Anne Berlit

Our TOP 9 is complete – thank you for participating in our online group show to (from top left): Petra Schmidt – Kirsi Kivivirta – Michael Francis Ryan – Nanou Dupuis – Azim F. Becker – Amelia Nin – Heike Weber – Clara Lemos – Anne Berlit.T

Tonight at 6pm we will announce the winner of our Art Matters 10 competition!

About ART MATTERS 10:

Even with the 10th ART MATTERS round (9 regular and one special edition last summer), it was not easy for us to select only 9 artists for our online exhibition from the many great submissions we received in response to our last Open Artist Call. But it was a great pleasure to discover and get to know so many great artistic positions!

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THE 9 FINALISTS:

Sunday 14 April: Petra Schmidt – Finalist 9 of 9

Petra Schmidt
embrace orange, 2024
resin on concrete
10 x 5 x 5,5 cm

PETRA SCHMIDT

embrace orange, 2024
resin on concrete
10 x 5 x 5,5 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 21 April: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

This is the last contribution to the 10th edition of our online group exhibition ART MATTERS before we announce the winner of our Open Call competition tomorrow, Monday 15 April at 6pm. But first, we are pleased to present PETRA SCHMIDT (born 1973, lives and works in Dorsten, DE and Denmark) as the 9th of our 9 finalists. Her wall sculpture – a rectangular monochrome cuboid made of concrete, encased in transparent synthetic resin – can be presented both horizontally and vertically as well as rotated and is characterised by an interplay of colour, form and material. Read more about Petra Schmidt and her work below.

We have selected a total of 9 finalists from the applications received for our last Open Artist Call. Until 14 April, we will present these artists and their submitted works one after the other here on our website and on Instagram. Every day at 6pm CET we will unveil another name and a new artwork, so that the exhibition slowly comes together as a whole.

On Monday 15 April at 6pm, we will announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne.

About Petra Schmidt ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Surrounded by colours and materials in our environment (nature, culture, architecture, fashion), my works reflect a reduced range of colours and materials on canvas, concrete and building materials.

The reduction, simplification and condensation of one or two colours is of essential importance to me.

The result is colour fields/colour compositions constructed at right angles, in which my works have an effect through the colour(s), the material and the reflection.

Colour density
Interplay and intuition of colour on rectangular shaped material.
The sensation, reaction and colour effect are in the eye of the beholder.

Point of View
Concrete cuboids
Are handmade, minimalist monochrome objects made of concrete.
When viewed from different angles, the point of view changes and leads to a new mind game.

embrace
My new series of concrete works
Between system and intuition, rectangular monochrome cuboids made of concrete are created by hand using my folding system without mechanical support. A Lego Duplo mould allows them to be hung on the wall - horizontally/vertically/rotated. Arranged or playfully, they form their own three-dimensional space in the room, alone or in groups, by creating shadows.
embrace - the architectural material I have chosen, concrete, is embraced with transparent-coloured resin, a synthetic resin casting. The concrete has a cool effect and symbolises solidity and durability. When the moulds are cast, air pockets create a porous, organic surface. The transparent-coloured resin casting encloses the air pockets in the concrete and leaves them visible. This gives the concrete block a pulsating and lively appearance.

Petra Schmidt

1973 born in Essen, DE
lives and works in Dorsten, DE and Denmark

@petraschmidt.10

Education

1997-2004
- Studied architecture at the MSA Münster/University for Architecture

Selected Exhibitions (since 2018)

2024
- Group Show, ART MATTERS 10, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)
- Duo Show, Galerie r8m, Cologne

2023
- Group Show, ART MATTERS 7, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)
- Group Show, Galerie r8m, Cologne
- Group Show, Revierkunst, Henrichshütte, LWL Museum, Hattingen

2022
- C.A.R. CONTEMPORARY ART RUHR

2018
- Kunsthaus Essen

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Saturday 13 April: Kirsi Kivivirta – Finalist 8 of 9

Kirsi Kivivirta
Encounters IX, 2023
glazed, high-fired ceramics
58 x 56 x 5 cm

KIRSI KIVIVIRTA

Encounters IX, 2023
glazed, high-fired ceramics
58 x 56 x 5 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 21 April: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

On the 8th day of our online group show ART MATTERS 10 we are pleased to present the 8th of our 9 finalists, Finnish artist KIRSI KIVIVIRTA (born 1959, lives and works in Helsinki, Finland). Her ceramic sculptures are based on geometrical forms, bricks and cubes from small arrangements to big installations and the main material used is porcelain, a rarer material in the visual art, which for the artist represents an ancient material aesthetic. Read more about Kirsi Kivivirta and her work below.

On Monday 15 April at 6pm, we will announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne.

About Kirsi Kivivirta ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Urban landscape, environment, architecture and everyday spaces are the starting points for the content and form of my ceramic art. I am looking for timeless symbols and forms, everyday functional objects or phenomena that are familiar for all of us. For me, they represent the flow of time, a cycle of life. Through my art, I strive to create a semblance of order and harmony alongside a fragmented and unbalanced state. In my work, the landscape horizon often provides a calming element.

My sculptures are based on geometrical forms, bricks and cubes from small arrangements to big installations. I have pruned my forms and images into archetypes which I call 'basic elements'. The main material used in my ceramic wall pieces is porcelain, a rarer material in the visual art, which for me represents an ancient material aesthetic.
Composed of dozens to hundreds of pieces, my jigsaw-like wall pieces are often monochromatic and based on repetition. My work is a kind of composition process, a shifting of pieces and fragments, where different elements seek their own place and dynamics. The intention of my expression is also to reduce and eliminate variables and thus bring out the essential content. Natural materials have an enormous expressive potential. As an artist, I have a desire to understand the properties of clays and minerals. I exploit their natural shades, whites, browns, greys and blacks.

My studio is in Kallio, Helsinki. I am particularly interested in works of art as part of the architecture and public environment. My works have been installed in the Arabianranta residential quarter, Espoo Hospital and the entrance lobby of Aalto University School of Economics. Abroad, my works can be seen in the Finnish embassies in Paris, Tallinn and Warsaw.

Kirsi Kivivirta

1959 born in Finland
lives and works in Helsinki, Finland

www.kivivirta.com
@kirsikivivirta

Education

1980-85
- University of Art and Design Helsinki (Aalto University)

1985
- Master of Arts

1983
- Practical training, Arabia Factory

Educational Experience

1987-99
- Lecturer, University of Art and Design Helsinki

2000-20
- Annantalo Arts Centre, art education for children and young people Internship supervision in ceramics, professional practice guidance, courses

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Crypt, Helsinki Cathedral, 2022; Mark Rothko Art Centre 2019; Galleria Nuovo, Lahti 2015 and 2011; Galleria Pictor 2014; Solveig Lindqvist Projects Helsink2012; St. Henry’s Ecumenical Art Chapel, 2011; Forum Box, Helsinki, 2008; Galleria 5, Oulu, 2007; Kunsthalle Helsinki, 2000; Design Forum Finland, Helsinki, 1998 and 2005; Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, 1994; Adamson-Ericu Museum, Tallinn, 198

Selected Group Exhibitions

Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online), 2024; Køppe Contemporary Objects, Bornholm 2023; AfterGlow, New Nordic Porcelain, Kunsthall Grenland, Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum, Clay Keramikmuseum Danmark 2022-23; Imatra Art Museum 2022; Korundi, Rovaniemi Art Museum 2021; Northern Lights, Villa Streccius, Landau 2021; Vantaa Art Museum Artsi 2020; Dialogi, Galleria G12, Helsinki 2020; Blås & Knåda, Stockholm, 2019; Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City 2018; Sanyi Fu-Guei gallery, Taiwan 2018; About Clay, Fiskars 2018; Finite Resource, Stroganov State Academy of Design and Applied Arts, Moskow 2017; Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, 2017; Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Korea, 2017; Designmuseum, Helsinki, 2015; Gallery Marianne Heller, Heidelberg, 2014 and 2010; Officine Saffi, Milano, 2012; The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italia, 2012; Feuer und Eis, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, 2010; Ceramics from Finland, Galleria Besson, London, 2009; The 8th International Ceramics Exhibition Mino, Japan, 2008; 54o Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica d'Arte, Faenza, Italy, 2005; Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä. 2004; A. W. Finchin jälkeläiset, Designmuseum, Helsinki, 2003; Keuruu Art Museum, Lönnströmin Art Museum Studio, Savonlinna Art Museum, Kouvola Art Museum, Arabian Museum Gallery, Kajaani Art Museum, Salo Art Museum; Céramique contemporaine de Châteauroux, France, 2001; Neighbours, Muchina Institute, St. Petersburg, 2000; Junge Kunstszene Finnland, Hetjens-Museum, Dusseldorf and Karlsruhe, 1995; Galleria Arioso, Stockholm, 1994; Materia, Kunsthall Helsinki, 1993; North, Edmonton, 1992; Finnische Keramik, Bretten, 1990; L ́Europe des Ceramistes, Auxerre 1989; Metaxis, Museum of Applied Arts (Designmuseum), Helsinki, 1987; Esineitä, Vanhan galleria, Helsinki, 1983

Grants

2022-26
- Artist Professor Grant
- Several individual and group grants since 1988
- 1, 3 and 5-year artist grants, Arts Promotion Centre Finland

Awards

2020
- The Cross of the Merit of Finnish Lion

2017
- Ornamo, Gold medal
- Memory Box competition, Solo Exhibition award at Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre

2014
- Concours International de Création en Porcelaine, finalist

2010
- Ceramic Artist of the Year 2010, Ornamo

2008
- 8th International Ceramics Exhibition Mino, Japan, Two Honorable mentions

2007
- Journalists' Dozen, Habitare Fair (Cubitum stool)

2002
- Findesignnow 02, Honorable mention (Vine tiles)

1983
- The Award of the Arts Council of Uusimaa

Collections and Site-Specific Art

Daycare Soittajantie, Helsinki; Aalto University School of Business, Espoo; Espoo Hospital / Espoo Modern Art Museum; OP Financial Group, Helsinki; The Finnish State Art Collection, Embassy of Finland in Paris, Tallinn and Warsaw, The National Police School of Finland, Ministry of Education, Finnish Defence Forces, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Helsinki Music Centre; Design Museum Helsinki; Arabianranta residential area; Tapiola Group; Fondazione Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza; FLICAM (FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums) China; Mizunami City Library, Japan; San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts; State Art Collections Ireland; Arctic Ceramic Centre collection, Riga Porcelain Museum; Mark Rothko Art Center; Museu del Càntir d ́Argentona; Yingge Ceramic Museum, IAC collections

Residencies & Symposiums

2021
- Norsk Teknisk Porcelen, Fredrikstad, New Nordic Porcelain 2019 Guldagergaard, New Nordic Porcelain

2017
- 12th International Colony of Art Ceramics V-oglje, Slovenia

2016
- 6th Gölcük Seramik Sempozyumu, Kocaeli Üniversitesi, Turkey

2015
- Arctic Ceramic Center, Posio

2008
- Fuping, China

2000
- Kultela brick factory, Somero

Fairs

Craft Trend Fair, Seoul, Korea, 2016; Art Helsinki, 2008- 2014; EgeArt, Izmir, 2013; Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm, 2012; Sofa Chicago and Sofa New York, 2010; The International Art + Design Fair, New York, 2007; Habitare Helsinki, 2001 and 2007

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Friday 12 April: Michael Francis Ryan – Finalist 7 of 9

Michael Francis Ryan
Escape, 2022
digital image on glass, steel rod, tape, graphite, string, resin
7,5 x 45,5 x 4 cm

MICHAEL FRANCIS RYAN

Escape, 2022
digital image on glass, steel rod, tape, graphite, string, resin
7,5 x 45,5 x 4 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 21 April: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

It's day 7 of our online group exhibition ART MATTERS 10 and time to present the 7th of our 9 finalists: MICHAEL FRANCIS RYAN (born 1959, lives and works in West Palm Beach, Florida). In his work – never far away from Arte Povera, Minimalism and Conceptual – Ryan reflects on how materials can be re-appropriated, take on parallel existences, or be in dialogue with one another. Read more about Michael Francis Ryan and his work below.

On Monday 15 April at 6pm, we will announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne.

About Michael Francis Ryan ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

To live spiritually is to know there is something else out there.

Something beyond our physical nature and five sense perceptions. Something more essential or deeper that underlies all meaning. The objects within Michael Francis Ryan’s practice bring about the light of something else. Metaphysical allegories of our existence and connections to our true nature and consciousness. An invitation for the viewer to reflect on an unknown object, free of rationalization. To bring calm peace to their inner being. Allowing one a visceral experience. To just silently feel.

Materiality, process and installation are the keywords that make up Ryan’s oeuvre. He works with materials that can be formed into a minimal artistic presence, lending visual expression to a spiritual dimension. Discarded building materials and by-products of today's world that instantly speak to him, vying for another life. Or nature's offerings teamed with industrially produced elements become a starting point. Through a dedicated practice, Ryan reflects on how materials can be re-appropriated, take on parallel existences, or be in dialogue with one another. Arte Povera, Minimalism and Conceptual Art are never far away from his work. He uses an economy of means to transform these seemingly uncomplicated things and materials, some with traces of past usage or life, into a visual meditation. Simple gestures that create an object without narrative. The work takes possession of something that it did not have before. A rebirth of its existence, taking on metaphysical qualities and becoming the material of transcendence and enlightenment. His interests in spirituality play an increasing role in refining his art with zen-like connectedness. Bringing value to one’s life by eliminating the excess in favor of simplicity and silence.

The space it occupies is equally as important as the piece itself. The minimal surroundings allow the viewer to engage with the work and form a dialog and connection. Observers know them self to stand in an indeterminate, open-ended relation to the object, whether on the wall, leaning against a wall or free-standing on the floor. The work is the center of the situation becoming a trigger for this possible exchange that ultimately belongs to the beholder. Witnessed is the materialization of a performative act of the artist as a flow of thoughts and actions that strayed into the final piece. Done with the intentionality of bringing out an indescribable human emotion. Revealing the beauty hidden in the most mundane. Now part of a new identity as art. Seeing it simply as something else.

Michael Francis Ryan

1959 born in Worcester, Massachusetts
lives and works in West Palm Beach, Florida

www.michaelfrancisryan.com
@nextnow.michaelfrancisryan

Education

1992
- MFA University of Massachusetts

1990
- BA Framingham University, attended Art Institute of Worcester Art Museum School

Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions

2024
- Online: Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany
- Willstrong Gallery, Jupiter, FL

2021
- A6 Project, Groningen, Netherlands (book)
- 311 Gallery, Raleigh NC
- Online: Artsy, Foundwork, Artland

2020
- Alfa Gallery, Miami, FL
- Online: Artsy, Foundwork, Artland

2019
- Gray Contemporary Gallery, Houston, TX
- Alfa Gallery, Miami, FL
- The Edge, West Palm Beach, FL (solo)

2018
- Galleria Loreta Larkina, Venice, Italy
- Art Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

2017
- Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
- Galeria du Louvre, Paris, France

2016
- Gallery Mentana, Florence, Italy
- Art Showroom, Merlino Gallery, Florence, Italy
- Spazi Aperti, Merlino Gallery, Florence, Italy
- Arte in Monastero, Milan, Italy
- Merlino Gallery, Florence, Italy

2015
- Merlino Gallery, Florence, Italy
- SCOPE, Miami, FL
- BAC Gallery, Miami, FL
- Amsterdam International Art Fair, Netherlands
- The Miami Art Expo, Miami, FL
- Pyramid Studios, Miami, FL

2014
- Pop Up Show, Notting Hill, London

2013
- SCOPE, Miami
- Adam Street Gallery, London
- Boca Art Museum, Boca Raton, FL

2010
- Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY

2008
- Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY

2007
- Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL

2006
- Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY

2004
- Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY

2003
- Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT
- New Century Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

2002
- Focus Suites of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

1999
- Louis Boston, Showcase Artist Series, Boston, MA (solo)

1998
- Via della Chiesa Gallery, Raynham, MA (solo)

1997
- Via della Chiesa Gallery, Raynham, MA

1995
- Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, MA

1994
- Benjamin Studio, Open Studio showing, Boston MA

1992
- Masters Exhibition, University of Massachusetts, MA

1990
- Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, MA

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Thursday 11 April: Nanou Dupuis – Finalist 6 of 9

Nanou Dupuis
Content, 2024
acrylic and Sumi ink on shaped plastics, black wooden frame box
45 x 35 x 13 cm

NANOU DUPUIS

Content, 2024
acrylic and Sumi ink on shaped plastics, black wooden frame box
45 x 35 x 13 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 21 April: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

It's the 6th day of our online group exhibition ART MATTERS 10 and we are happy to present the 6th of our 9 finalists NANOU DUPUIS (born 1972 in Belgium, lives and works in Melbourne). Her process-driven aesthetics explore the transformative ability of the material used. Dupuis is known for her experimental compositional approach, her gestural abstraction, deconstructed framing and site-specific installations. Read more about Nanou Dupuis and her work below.

On Monday 15 April at 6pm, we will announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne.

About Nanou Dupuis ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Nanou Dupuis is a Belgian born Melbourne based artist. Dupuis surveys the interchangeable boundaries between the sculptural nature of painting and the painterly aspect of sculpture. She uses traditional methods with contemporary processes to resolve wall abstractions beyond the obvious definition of what a painting should be at first glance.
Her process-driven aesthetic explores the transformative ability of the material to entice curiosity with an engaged viewing. The artist is known for her experimental compositional approach, her gestural abstraction, deconstructed framing and site-specific installations.

Nanou Dupuis

1972 born in Belgium
lives and works in Melbourne

www.nanoudupuis.com
@nanoudupuis

Education & Experience

2024
- Represented by Alpha gallery, Miami and New York, USA
- Represented by Udeco Gallery, Hong Kong and Sydney Fair

2016-20
- Gallery Board Member - Curator & Administrator, Alternating Current Art space, VIC, Australia

2013
- Nes Opio Hus residency sponsored by the Australian Council for the Arts, Skagastrond, Iceland

2012
- Nihonga Japanese painting intensive artist in residence, Judith Kruger Studio, U.S.A

2011
- Master of Art - Art in Public Space, RMIT University, VIC, Australia
- RMIT artist in residence, Mentor of abstract painting at the Xian yang University Shanxi, China

2004
- History of Art Graduate Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts, Belgium

2001
- 16th century church interior restoration, commissioned by the Belgian Royal estate, Belgium

1993
- Interior Architecture Design Graduate Diploma, St Luc University, Belgium

1992
- Fine Arts Bachelor Degree, Academy of Fine Arts, Belgium

1989
- Graphic Design- Screen printing - Photography Undergraduate Diploma, IATA, Belgium

Selected Grants & Awards

2023
- Award finalist, Bluethumb art gallery, VIC, Australia
- Hue & Cry Award finalist, Hue & Cry, Geelong, VIC, Australia

2022
- Mosman Award finalist, Mosman Art gallery, NSW, Australia

2018-22
- Linden New Art Postcard 2021-2022 Award recipient & 2018 finalist, VIC, Australia

2017-21
- Omnia Award finalist, VIC, Australia

2017-15
- Bayside Award finalist, VIC, Australia

2016-15
- M Collection Award finalist, Gallerysmith, VIC, Australia

2015
- Muswellbrook Award finalist, NSW, Australia

2013-14
- Grant recipient from the Australian Council for the Arts, Australia

2013
- Lethbridge Gallery, Award finalist, NSW, Australia

2012
- Incinerator Gallery, Artecycle Award finalist, VIC, Australia

2011
- TOK H Award recipient, Toorak Sculpture Show, VIC, Australia
- RMIT Common Thread Award recipient, VIC, Australia

2004
- Academy of Fine Arts Award recipient: Painting, Drawing, sculpture & Graphic design, Belgium

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
- Conduit Gallery, The Art room VIC, Australia

2023
- Art Elven, VIC, Australia

2021-22
- Five Walls Gallery, VIC, Australia

2022
- Blackcat gallery now SOL Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2019
- Aternating Current Art Space, Melbourne, Australia

2017
- Access Gallery, Bayside Brighton Townhall, Melbourne, Australia

2016
- Gallerysmith Project space, North Melbourne, Australia
- Rubicon Ari, North Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

2015
- Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy Melbourne, Australia

2014
- Flinders Lane Gallery, The Space, VIC Australia

2013
- Shading the light, Nes Opio Hus, Iceland

2012
- Judith Kruger Studio, Nihonga Abstract, Savannah, U.S.A

Selected Group Exhibitions & Public Art Installations

2024
- ART MATTERS 10, Online Group Exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany
- Fort Earth, Fortyfivedownstairs gallery, VIC, Australia
- Udeco gallery, Hong Kong fair, Hong Kong
- Udeco gallery , Sydney fair, NSW, Australia

2023
- Divisions Gallery, Pentridge, VIC, Australia#
- Abstraction, Five walls Gallery, Footscray, VIC Australia

2022
- WRAP, East Gippsland regional gallery, VIC, Australia
- Melbourne Affordable Art Fair, VIC, Australia
- SOL gallery, VIC, Australia
- Traffic Jam gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2016-21
- Alternating Current Art gallery, Prahran, VIC, Australia

2019
- Linden New Art gallery Project space , VIC, Australia
- Satellite Projects, Ryne, VIC, Australia
- 28 Beasts, Maghull St, Brunswick East ,VIC, Australia

2018
- Red Gallery, VIC, Australia
- This Wild song project, Gallerysmith, VIC, Australia
- Dirty Dozen, Flinders Street Station, VIC, Australia

2017-18
- Westend gallery, VIC, Australia

2017
- Project 17, Anna Pappas Gallery, VIC, Australia

2016
- STK Gallery, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
- C3 Gallery, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia

2013
- Nes Studio, Opio Hus, Public Art Installation, Iceland

2011
- Xian yang University Gallery, Shanxi, China
- First Site RMIT Gallery, VIC, Australia
- Toorak Sculpture Show, Diverting figures, VIC, Australia
- Fisher Jeffries Gallery, Fringe festival, SA, Australia
- Adelaide Fringe festival Public Art installation, Adelaide

2010
- Public Art & Winter Projection, Dandenong City Council commission, VIC, Australia

2008
- Art Melbourne, Melbourne Exhibition Building, VIC, Australia

2002
- Granary Wharf Gallery, Leeds, U.K.

2001
- Rive Gauche Gallery, Namur, Belgium

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Wednesday 10 April: Azim F. Becker – Finalist 5 of 9

Azim F. Becker
Muckelig, 2024
silicone, textile
60 x 65 x 46 cm (detail)

AZIM F. BECKER

Muckelig, 2024
silicone, textile
60 x 65 x 46 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 21 April: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

On day 5 of our online group exhibition ART MATTERS 10, we are pleased to present the 5th finalist AZIM F. BECKER (born 1991, lives and works in Osnabrück, DE), whose surrealist sculptures are created with a direct reference to the present, but at the same time are timeless and not bound to the current reality. Read more about Azim F. Becker and his work below.

On Monday 15 April at 6pm, we will announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne.

About Azim F. Becker ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

In times when reality is becoming alien, the surreal is closest to reality. I work with the feeling that the nerve of the present gives me. My works are created with a direct reference to the present, but at the same time they are timeless and not tied to current reality. The surrealist sculptures are only completed by our thoughts of the present. If I depict a towering fist and a hand supporting itself in a knot, calling it "sprouting and supporting", I embody a feeling of the endeavour of growing/unwrapping. In terms of the current situation, I have to accept that the Black Lives Matter movement is associated with this sculpture because of the skin tone and the resonant iconography of a black fist as a symbol of protest. This train of thought would hardly open up with a light-skinned tone. To what extent do skin tones affect our way of thinking and associating and to what extent my way of working? Can I, as a dark-skinned artist, distance myself from making dark skin a subject or is it automatically committed to a political statement in the general art context? It is not me who holds reality up to the viewers, but they themselves as soon as they try to translate my surrealist sculptures into their own reality and present. Is a knotted leg to be understood as an inability to move or, due to the current situation, a commentary on the twisted walks with fascists?

Azim F. Becker

1991 born
lives and works in Osnabrück, DE

www.azimbecker.com
@azim.f.becker

Awards

- Winner Award - MUK Artprize, Osnabrück, Germany, 2023

- Winner Award - Willi Münzenberg Forum, Berlin, Germany, 2019

- Winner Award - Piepenbrock Art Promotion Prize, Osnabrück, Germany, 2019

- Winner Award - BBK-OWL "Schauräume", Bielefeld, Germany, 2019

Scholarship

- Artist-Scholarship, Ministry of Lower Saxony for science and culture, Germany, 2021

Selected Exhibitions

- ART MATTERS 10, Online Group Exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany, 2024

- Refugium in a Box, Cubic Artspace, Greifswald, Germany, 2023

- Refugium Rave, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany, 2023

- Re:claim, Hidden Art Project, Oldenburg, Germany, 2022

- (va)nished - vacuo gallery, Deutschland, Germany, 2021

- MUK-Kunstpreis, Osnabrück, Germany, 2020

- Menschenbilder - Bad Essen, Germany, 2020

- vormorgen - Gütersloher Kunstverein, Germany, 2020

- TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS - Skulpturgalerie Osnabrück, Germany, 2020

- Bürgerpark Gallery - urban art show, Osnabrück, Germany, 2020

- laut-leiser-Zufall, Bielefeld, Germany, 2020

- LiSALUNA - Duisburg, Germany, 2019

- This ain't street - Galerie Letsah, Germany, 2019

- European Media Art Festival - Init, Germany, 2018, 2019, 2024

- Gedankensplitter - KuK, Dissen, Germany, 2019

- YUP - Young Urban Performance Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, 2017

Projects

- Co-Founder "Atelierhaus Hasemauer" - fundraised art-studio for young artists

- Curator for hase29 - Contemporary Art Society & Stadthalle Osnabrückhalle

- Curator of Videoscreening 1 at hase29 - Contemporary Art Society

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Tuesday 9 April: Amelia Nin – Finalist 4 of 9

Amelia Nin
Big Crunch, 2022
hand embroidery, recycled fabrics and mixed media
57 x 57 cm

AMELIA NIN

Big Crunch, 2022
hand embroidery, recycled fabrics and mixed media
57 x 57 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 21 April: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

On the 4th day of our online group exhibition ART MATTERS 10, we are pleased to introduce the 4th finalist AMELIA NIN (born 1971 in Uruguay, lives and works in Berlin). By weaving and interweaving fabrics, which she recycles and transforms (e.g. by colouring, painting, bleaching, burning), Nin's textile art explores the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm. Read more about Amelia Nin and her work below.

On Monday 15 April at 6pm, we will announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne.

About Amelia Nin ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Amelia Nin's work is the symbolic and intuitive expression of the longing for a closer relationship with nature, a bridge between the real and the intangible world.
She creates textile abstractions with a poetic focus on details, reflections that she traces on the fabric with needle and thread, embroidering the ungraspable. Weaving and interweaving fabrics that she recycles but also transforms by dyeing, painting, bleaching or burning, she creates textures that explore the relationship between the micro and the macro cosmos.
She is interested in working with textiles because they are charged with memory and intimacy, they are part of her identity.
She rescues the traces that time leaves on textiles, without hiding them, but on the contrary, amplifying and transcending them. They are the evidence of the unstoppable passage of time, of our impermanence and transience.
Lichens came to meet her and revealed their magic. Not only for their aesthetic richness, but also from a philosophical point of view. In them she sees mysteries that captivate her, such as the origin of things and the evolution of life and our vulnerable existence in the universe.

Amelia Nin

1971 born in Uruguay
lives and works in Berlin

www.amelianin.com
@amelia.nin.artist

My work is the symbolic and intuitive expression of the longing for a closer relationship with nature, a bridge between the real world and the intangible. I create textile abstractions with a poetic focus on details, reflections that I trace on the fabric with needle and thread, embroidering the ungraspable.

Education

Universität
1992-97
Escuela Universitaria de Diseño EUCD Montevideo - Uruguay Diplom: Industrial designer for the textile sector

1980-89
National Ballet School Montevideo - Uruguay Diplom: Ballet Dancer.

2022
Continuing Education
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin in cooperation with Wetek Berlin gGmbH, Diploma: Specialist Cultural Education

Selected Exhibitions

2024 April
ART MATTERS 10, Online Group Exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne

2023 June - July
Selected to participate in: "Lot 1, Fair Art Auctions" at the Alte Münze Berlin Molkenmarkt 2, 10179 Berlin

2023 May 30 - June 4
Group Exhibition in the Haus der Statistik Otto-Braun-Strasse 70-72, 10178 Berlin

2023 May 4 - 20
Group exhibition “VIVID”, Lite Haus Galerie + Projektraum Mareschstr. 4 VH 12055 Berlin

2022 December - January 2023
Group Exhibition " 200 unter 2000", CSR.ART Contemporary Show Room Friedrichstraße 69, 10117 Berlin

2022 December 9,10,11
Selected to participate in: BAAM , Berlin Affordable Art Market, at the Moss Space Moosdorfstr. 6-7, 12435 Berlin

2022 August 29 - September 1
Group Exhibition "Beyond Paradise"at ArtWerk Nordufer 31, 13351 Berlin

2022 August 08 - Oktober 10
Group Exhibition "Fascinating Dual Beings, the mysterious world of lichens" at Galerie Zagreus Brunnenstraße 9a, 10119 Berlin

2022 September 9 - 25
Group Exhibition "Friends" at Atelierhaus Mengerzeile Mengerzeilestraße 1- 3, 12435 Berlin

2022 June 17 - 24
Group exhibition "Tangerine trees and marmelade skies" at Galerie Baull Falkensteinstraße 45, 10997 Berlin

2021 July 21 - 31
Art up Group exhibition “Taumel der tatsachen” at K-Salon Bergmannstraße 54, 10961 Berlin

2021 June 1 - 15
Selected to participate in: "The 10th International Biennial Exhibition of Mini Textile Art "Scythia", Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine

2020 June 1 - 30
Selected for online exhibition, Threaded II by Envision Arts. Texas, USA

2020 January 24 - February 5
Group exhibition "Fragmente" at Kunstraum Reuter Reuterstraße 82, 12053 Berlin

Work Experience

2022
November - Present
Member Collective Vesna, Moabiter Ratschlag e.V.
Realization of textile art Workshops in different elementary schools in Berlin (project week of the welcome class)

2022 August - Present
Textil art teacher for 1st and 2nd grade children School "Eins" Berlin - Pankow

2021 September - Present
Honorary employee of the project "KinderKulturMonat" offering textile art workshops for children in schools, women ́s centers and shelters

2020 September - February 2021
Participation in the project Art up - Success in the team. Due to Covid 19, the exhibition at K-Salon, Berlin- Kreuzberg, postponed to July 20-31

2020 June
Selected to participate in the16th Textile Art Berlin 2020 postponed to June 19 and 20, 2021 due Covid 19

2019 November - February 2020
Participant 14 seminar days (70 hours) & coaching. Module 4: Art & Zukunft, within the project "Interkulti Business Hub"

2019 May - 2019 October
Participant 22 seminar days (110 hours) & coaching within the project "Interkulti Business Hub"

2010 November - February 2019
Secretary in the law firm Martin Dahlmann-Resing

Since 2007 October
Berlin - Germany

2006 December
"Feria del Libro y Grabado" Arts and Crafts Fair, Montevideo - Uruguay

2001 October - May 2006
Company Textiles Romatex S.A de C.V, Mexico DF - Mexico
Branch: Industrial Weaving. Production of cotton fabrics for ready-made clothing Textile designer

2000 March
Productora Metrópolis, Montevideo - Uruguay Freelance costume designer

1998 - 2000
She works as a costume designer for several films in Montevideo - Uruguay. Among which stand out: 25 Watts, Llamada para un cartero, El viñedo, El ojo en la nuca

1996 November - June 1998
Employed at Paylana S.A, Paysandú - Uruguay
Branch: Industrial weaving. Production of woolen fabrics for ready-made clothing Textile designer

1995 August - December
Employed at the company Raffaello Facciollo, Montevideo - Uruguay Branch: Industrial knitting
Design assistant

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Monday 8 April: Heike Weber – Finalist 3 of 9

HEIKE WEBER

3 Bögen um die Ecke | konkret | schwarz, 2024

fired black clay, matte black glaze

29 x 14 x 12 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 21 April: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

On day 3 of our online group exhibition ART MATTERS 10, we are pleased to present the German artist HEIKE WEBER (b. 1971, lives and works in Cologne), who in her artistic exploration of spatial works and forms is primarily interested in lines that describe and shape spaces by connecting with each other and forming interiors. Read more about Heike Weber and her work below.

On Monday 15 April at 6pm, we will announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne.

About Heike Weber ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Heike Weber

1971 born in Nürtingen, DE
lives and works in Cologne, DE

www.heike-weber-koeln.de
@heikeweber.cologne

Memberships:
GEDOK Bonn
Sculpture Network
Sculpture project space
Frechen Art Association

Education & Experience

2022
Studio foundation | Signalwerk Frechen Art Centre | Advanced training in glazing techniques

2020-21
Advanced Class | Sculpture Hall Bonn | Welding Course | Advanced Training Porcelain Casting

2019-20
Postgraduate studies | Bildhauerhalle Bonn

2014-19
Basic studies in sculpture | Bildhauerhalle Bonn bei Paul Advena

2012-14
Various further artistic training courses | trimester sculpture with Sebastian Probst, Cologne

since 2007
Mixed techniques on canvas

2005-07
Study of painting | Freie Kunstschule Köln

Selected Exhibitions

2021
- Kunstzentrum Signalwerk, Frechen | offene Ateliers
- Bildhauerhalle Bonn | Projektraum Skulptur
- ArtFair Luxembourg | VanGoghArtGallery, Madrid

2020
- Bildhauerhalle Bonn | Verdichtung und Auflösung

2019
- Bildhauerhalle Bonn | Werkschau

since 2014
- permanent exhibitions of my paintings in public and private spaces

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Sunday 7 April: Clara Lemos – Finalist 2 of 9

Clara Lemos
Dialogues with an introvert #6, 2024
acrylic and ink on canvas
30,5 x 30,5 cm

CLARA LEMOS

Dialogues with an introvert #6, 2024
acrylic and ink on canvas
30,5 x 30,5 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 21 April: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

Day 2: We continue our 10th ART MATTERS Online Group Exhibition with the presentation of the Portuguese artist CLARA LEMOS (*1980, lives and works in Boston, MA, USA), whose interpretation of abstract minimalism is about the silence that precedes a meaningful conversation and an invitation to look beyond the surface. Read more about Clara Lemos and her work below.

On Monday 15 April at 6pm, we will announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne.

About Clara Lemos ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Clara’s abstract minimalism has a strong focus on neutral and monochromatic tones and is often enriched by a variety of textures. Her apparently silent paintings hide countless layers of mark-making, collages, and textures. They are allusive to the urban roughness of Berlin and other cities that deeply influenced Clara’s aesthetic. In their essence, they are a metaphor for the personal traits that Clara appreciates the most: quietness and self-reflection hiding a deep, kind, and compassionate core that needs to be discovered. Clara’s interpretation of minimalism is not emptiness, but rather introspection; it’s about the silence that precedes a meaningful conversation and an invitation to look beyond the surface.

Clara Lemos

born 1980 in Portugal
lives and works in Boston, MA, USA

www.claralemos.com
@_clara.lemos_

Clara Lemos (b. 1980) is a Portuguese self-taught abstract artist based in Boston, MA. With a master's degree in nutrition sciences and a PhD in human biology, she's forged a successful career as a cancer researcher for two decades. In 2021, amidst a pandemic and maternity leave, she discovered a profound passion for creating art, which has since become her life-changing mission.

Education

10/2004 – 10/2008
- PhD in Human Biology

09/1998 – 09/2003
- Master's in Nutrition Sciences

Work Experience

01/2021 – present
- self-taught artist focusing on acrylic and mixed media abstract paintings

Selected Exhibitions

April 2024
- ART MATTERS 10, Online Group Exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany

January 2024
- Exhibition at Inside-Out Gallery, Clara Lemos, Beyond the Surface: A Melody of Texture & Silent Exploration, CVS Window in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, USA

December 2023
- ART ON LOOP Berlin, Digital Art Show, The Holy Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany

November 2023
- Mixtape No. 6, Online Exhibition, Cultivate Gallery

April 2023
- Mixtape No. 5, Online Exhibition, Cultivate Gallery

March 2023
- Mixtape No. 4, Online Exhibition, Cultivate Gallery

October 2022
- Mixtape No. 1, Online Exhibition, Cultivate Gallery

March 2022
- Impart, Online Exhibition, Cultivate Gallery

January 2022
- KICKOFF VOLUME 0, Online Exhibition, Contemporary Art Chronicle

September 2021
- BLINK ART WEEK, Virtual Exhibition, BLINK BRLN

September 2021
- “Athens Open Art”, Art Number 23 Gallery, Athens, Greece

August 2021
- REBERATION, Virtual Exhibition, The Holy Art Gallery

July 2021
- “Shades of Grey” Art Exhibition, Online Exhibition, ART ROOM Gallery

June 2021
- 2021 ALL Abstract Exhibition, Online Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery Online

June 2021
Saturation, Online Exhibition, Cultivate Gallery

May 2021
- ABSTRACT ART / Garden of Colorful Mists, HAZE GALLERY, Berlin, Germany

April 2021
- The Dreamers, Virtual Exhibition, The Holy Art Gallery

April 2021
- “Abstract” Art Exhibition, Online Exhibition, ART ROOM Gallery

March 2021
- Genesis, Virtual Exhibition, The Holy Art Gallery

Press

January 2024
- Interview, Somerville Arts Council, Clara Lemos, Beyond the Surface: A Melody of Texture & Silent Exploration, https://somervilleartscouncil.org/insideout/lemos

November 2023
- Interview, ART RADAR, New & Abstract, https://www.newandabstract.com/blogs/news/five-questions-to-clara-lemos

September 2023
- NewArt Project Magazine, Issue 2, https://www.blurb.com/b/11710945-newartproject-magazine-autumn-issue-2-contemporar

August 2023
- Interview, AATONAU, Clara Lemos: from science to canvas, https://aatonau.com/clara-lemos-from-science-to-canvas/

November 2021
- Book Volumes of Darkness 2021 by Bruxelles Art Vue

August 2021
- No Name Collective Gallery VWorld ART MAGAZINE – August Issue, https://en.calameo.com/read/0065746502d0abe256615

August 2021
- Interview, Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, https://www.altiba9.com/platfrom-interviews-for-artists/clara-lemos-abstract-painting

July 2021
- Issue 16 of Artist talk Magazine, www.artisttalkmagazine.com/issue-16

July 2021
- APERO Fine Art Publication – July Issue

June 2021
- BOOMER MAGAZINE I SECOND EDITION I SELF FULFILLING PROPHECY, https://issuu.com/boomergallery/docs/boomer_magazine_2_online_issuu

April 2021
- Cover of Issue 15 of Artist talk Magazine, https://www.artisttalkmagazine.com/issue-15

Prizes and Awards

December 2023
- Honorable mention for “Paper, rock, scissors”, ART MATTERS 8, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany

August 2021
- Selected for the July shortlist of the Challenge Collective 21, No Name Collective Gallery VWorld

August 2021
- Selected for the 10 X Shortlist among 66 participating artists, REBERATION Virtual Exhibition, The Holy Art, London

July 2021
- Honorable Mention for “Stains”, “Shades of Grey” Art competition, ART ROOM Gallery

May 2021
- Honorable Mention Award for “Second chance”
- Finalist Award for “New beginnings”, OPEN International Juried Art Competition, ART SHOW INTERNATIONAL

April 2021
- Honorable Mention for “White sea” and “It’s a new dawn”, 4^th “Abstract” Art competition, ART ROOM Gallery

March 2021
- Selected for the 11 X Shortlist among 122 participating artists, Genesis Virtual Exhibition, The Holy Art, London

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Saturday 6 April: Anne Berlit – Finalist 1 of 9

Anne Berlit
Komposition, 2023
acrylic on plexiglass
80 x 170 x 5 cm (detail)

ANNE BERLIT

Komposition, 2023
acrylic on plexiglass
80 x 170 x 5 cm

The work is available through our gallery until 21 April: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

Kick-off: We begin our 10th ART MATTERS Online Group Exhibition with the presentation of the German artist ANNE BERLIT (*1959, lives and works in Essen and Berlin), who conceives her painting as a delicate balancing act and creates multi-layered coloured textures on the painting ground of three-dimensional plexiglass boxes. Read more about Anne Berlit and her work below.

On Monday 15 April at 6pm, we will announce the winner of our online competition: She or he will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne.

About Anne Berlit ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Strategies of space
Communication with space
Perspectives of perception
Balancing with the eyes
walking with eyes
walking with senses
Fragility of space

The aim of my work is to create communicative sculptures of registration, impetus and movement.
It is about forms of expression that enter into a relationship with their surroundings. It is about seeing and perceiving, but also about the ambivalence of this perception. Nothing is as it seems, everything is a perspective of perception and observation.
My work is a refusal of the one-dimensional. Light, shadow and location create the illusion of spatiality that can be experienced in different ways.

Drawing drafts, reflections and material-related experiments are at the beginning of the realisation. The integration of industrial production techniques into the artistic process, as well as the preoccupation with painting and drawing, interlock my work in a complex design process.
Objects are created that are not only defined by their external form, but also combine painting, sculpture and space. Viewers have the possibility of a perspective from real space to different illusionary spaces.

Anne Berlit

born 1959 in Brackenheim, Baden Württemberg
lives and works in Essen und Berlin

www.anneberlit.de
@berlitanne

1992-1999
- Studied fine arts and sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy

1998
- Master student of David Rabinowitch

1999
- she completes her studies with an academy certificate.

2002
- she is a participant in the Dakar Biennale and is working on site in Senegal on the subject of "Avoir Part".

She has taught several times as part of teaching assignments, in 2003/2004 Fundamentals of Artistic Design in Wuppertal and in 2012/13 at the University of Osnabrück.

In 2014, 2018 and 2020 she was artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Anne Berlit is a member of the West German - and the German Artists' Association.

Her work has been honoured with several awards, including:
- 2020 CityArtist, NRW,
- 2018 1. Preis, Kunst am Bau Wettbewerb, Dokom 21, Rechenzentrum Dortmund
- 2007 Deutscher Fassadenpreis für „Transformation Licht“ mit dem Architekten Frank Ahlbrecht
- 2005 2. Preis, „Aus der Freiheit leben“ ev. Kirche Essen
- 2000 Emprise Art Award NRW Forum Düsseldorf
- 1999 Kunstpreis, Bergische Kunstausstellung, Museum Baden Solingen

Her works can be seen in exhibitions in museums, art associations and galleries in Germany, the USA, Great Britain and Poland and are represented in collections including: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Stadt Essen, Stadt Düsseldorf, Sparkasse Gütersloh.

Anne Berlit's artistic work ranges from drawing and painting to installations and projects in public spaces.
It is always preceded by a precise analysis of the context. The results of the research, experiments with materials and production processes, as well as the site-specific characteristics, give rise to works that pose socio-cultural questions and unfold poetically.

"Anne Berlit is one of those artists who stage their painting as a delicate balancing act. Clear in format, reduced in formal expressive vocabulary, concentrated in technique, she creates multi-layered colourful fabrics on the painting ground of three-dimensional Plexiglas boxes. The acrylic paints used are applied to the smooth surface with a brush, where they leave visible traces of the picture's creation and a cautious approach to the completed form of the body of colour. At times, the areas of colour appear dull and opaque, at others bright and translucent, revealing the wall behind, in front of which the differently dimensioned areas of colour seem to float almost without support. By painting the Plexiglas surface from the front and the back, lucid colour grounds are created that radiate out of themselves and allow refracted coloured light to flow into the surroundings. Attracted by the power of the colours, the viewer's gaze is virtually absorbed and led into the depths of the colour fields, only to return to the surface the next moment and follow the colourful shimmer of individual brushstrokes. In this way, the one inscribes itself into the other: the effectiveness of the colour shines in the eye of the viewer, while the space surrounding the painting with the objects, people and architectural forms in it is reflected in the surface of the painting, often distorted. The viewer becomes the witness and actor of an intellectual and sensual dialogue that encourages reflection on the diverse perspectives and experiential values that contemporary painting creates...."
Excerpt from the catalogue, Dr. Uwe Schramm, Anne Berlit, Reflexion des Ungefähren.

"Anne Berlit's work opens up a wide range of artistic freedom for herself and her surroundings. Her works encourage us to break out of the distanced attitude of viewing and to understand ourselves as part of the "fragile equilibrium". The work becomes a communicative sculpture of registering, nudging and moving. It creates closeness, making the invisible visible and the unheard of tangible."
Peter Gorschlüter, from the foreword to Fragile Equilibrium, Anne Berlit, Wienand Verlag 2021

"Anne Berlit's work covers a wide range, from drawing and painting to installations, large-scale projects and participatory actions. ... Anne Berlit utilises the power of art and takes it off the pedestal for everyone; creative thought processes are triggered, the urban environment and the people in it become part of the work. Through the interactive character of her works, she enables direct and individual access to art and, en passant, conveys socio-historical aspects of the space that invite a personal statement in public discourse. Casual, free of academicism, playful and confidently pulling out all the stops of art, Anne Berlit thus succeeds in literally expanding perspectives - namely that responsibility for a future living space and the associated issues affect both the individual and the community.
Jury statement, City Artist 2020

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ART MATTERS 9

Online Group Exhibition

1st Winner
Kira Fröse

(Interim solo show in July/August 2024)

2nd Winner
Albrecht/Wilke

(online solo show in May/June 2024)

02 – 16/12/2023 ... more >

1st Prize: KIRA FRÖSE – Winner Gallery Group Show

Congratulations to KIRA FRÖSE: German artist Kira Fröse (*1992, lives and works in Bochum) is today the second of our two ART MATTERS 9 winners and will be invited with a selection of her works to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne in 2024! Fröse's work is emotional and focuses on the longing for haptic experiences. Shiny surfaces, structured flowing forms and dynamic matter - the juxtaposition of stillness and movement fascinates and inspires us. Her works invite us to mistrust our senses and reinterpret the familiar. And in this respect, we already have some ideas for a fun and beautiful presentation with Kira Fröse's works and look forward to working with the artist in the near future!

"Through the use of colour, organic, playful, and dynamic shapes, my work wants to seduce and invite the viewers to experience what is in front of them with their own senses and imagination. Subconsciously influenced by the aesthetics of nature and used objects of everyday life, I create static forms that depict motion and appear to be smooth and light despite the heaviness of their substance. Observing more closely one can perceive that aesthetics can only endure through the presence of unaesthetic detail."

KIRA FRÖSE

quetschbar, 2015
old dishwasher, textile, spray paint
70 x 68 x 50 cm

About Kira Fröse ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

“I have to touch this!“
This is the essence of what drives me to make art. Glossy surfaces, structured fluid forms and dynamic matter – the confrontation of stagnation and movement fascinates and inspires me. My work is emotive and focused on one’s desire for haptic experiences.

Through the use of colour, organic, playful, and dynamic shapes, my work wants to seduce and invite the viewers to experience what is in front of them with their own senses and imagination. Subconsciously influenced by the aesthetics of nature and used objects of everyday life, I create static forms that depict motion and appear to be smooth and light despite the heaviness of their substance. Observing more closely one can perceive that aesthetics can only endure through the presence of unaesthetic detail.

During the process of creating work I knead, I stroke, I strike, I construct and touch everything with my hands – “I have to touch this!“.

Kira Fröse

1992 born in Oer-Erkenschwick, DE
lives and works in Bochum, DE

www.kira-froese.com
@kira.froese

Education

2017-2018
- BCADEMIE

2013-2017
- BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS AKI ARTEZ ENSCHEDE

2016
- ERASMUS EXCHANGE AT MOME (MOHOLY NAGY UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN BUDAPEST)

2012
- GENERAL QUALIFICATION FOR UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE (WITH MAIN SUBJECT DESIGN)

Experiences

2022
- STUDIO ASSISTANT AT STUDIO ‚MAAIKE KRAMER‘

SINCE 2019
- STUDIO ASSISTANT AT STUDIO ‚STEPHAN MARIENFELD‘

2018-2020
STUDIO ASSISTANT AT CERAMIC STUDIO ‚ANNE WENZEL‘

2016
INTERNSHIP – JAMES CARCASS AND BERNADETT HEGYVARI, GLASS STUDIO IN TÁPIÓSZECSŐ

Scholarships

2023
- PROJECTFUND – WERKTUIG PPO
- STIPENDIUM – GALERIE POULOEUFF
- KLEINPROJEKT – BOCHUM FONDS

2022
- STARTENDE MAKERS - PICTORIGHT STEUNFONDS

2021
- CORONA OVERBRUGGING - MONDRIAAN FONDS
- PROJETFUND: ZOEKTOCHT NAAR TRANSPARANTIE - CBK ROTTERDAM
- PROJECTFUND: ALLES KLEBT VOR REINLICHKEIT - STICHTING STOKROOS

2020
- PROJECTFUND: LITTER LEMON - MONDRIAAN FONDS
- PROJECTFUND: LITTER LEMON - STICHTING KUNST EN CULTUURBEVORDERING NEDERLAND

Selected Exhibitions

2023

- ART MATTERS 8 – GALERIE BIESENBACH – COLOGNE – ONLINE
- ARTIST IN RESIDENCY EKWC – OISTERWIJK
- I HAVE TO TOUCH THIS – KLEINSTE GALERIETJE AMSTERDAM
- ONTSTOPPABLE – KUNST OP DE WC – JAN CUNEN MUSEUM – OSS
- VIERKWART 4 ART – ROBSON – ENSCHEDE
- WASSER – STADTMUSEUM ZÜNDORFER WEHRTURM – COLOGNE

2022
- IN TRANSFER – GALLERY NONO – DEN HAAG
- LA GESTE EST LA PAROLE – DE BOUWPUT – AMSTERDAM
- DWEILEN MET DE KRAAN OPEN – NIEUW CHARLOIS – ROTTERDAM (SOLO)
- DE AANSCHOUW – ROTTERDAM (SOLO)
- WHY DON’T WE – GALLERY NONO – THE HAGUE

2021
- MATERIALS – ARTZAANSTAD – ZAANDAM
- ALLES KLEBT VOR REINLICHKEIT – GALERIE 143 – LÖRRACH (SOLO)
- 75 JAAR VRIJHEID VAN DE KUNST‘ – STADSMUSEUM – DOETICHEM
- COUNTERBODIES – DE ACHTERTUIN – ROTTERDAM
- 22 ROOMS – 22 ARTISTS – THE STUDENT HOTEL – ROTTERDAM
- STILLE WAS HEEFT DIEPE GRONDEN – UPSCALE GALERIE – ROTTERDAM (SOLO)

2020
- POP-UP GALLERY NONO – DEN HAAG
- LITTER LEMON‘ – JEDAN OSAM JEDAN, ROTTERDAM (SOLO)
- FOMA – FEAR OF MISSING ART – BROESE, UTRECHT

2019
- HECTOBAR 4.0 – TENT, ROTTERDAM
- ROTZ EN WATER – AK24, UTRECHT
- WAT ZIE IK – GALERIE POULOEUFF, NAARDEN-VESTING
- GREETINGS FROM SKAUHYTT – HET KUNSTGEMAAL, BRONKHORST

2018
- TEN YEARS APPRENTICE MASTER – KUNSTPODIUM T, TILBURG
- NOM NOM NOM – THE EXPLORE STORE, ROTTERDAM
- ON MY WAY TO THE GALACTIC SUPERMARKET, NEED ANYTHING? – GARAGE ROTTERDAM, ROTTERDAM
- ART OF DE BOX – KOPPELKERK, BREDEVOORT
- ALLES KOMT GOED – ATELIER014, UTRECHT
- JETZT SCHLÄGT’S DREIZEHN – BCADEMIE, ROTTERDAM

2017
- DESTILLAAT #19 – EXTRAPOOL, NIJMEGEN
- DEW21 KUNSTPREIS – DORTMUNDER U, DORTMUND
- SERVEER-TIP – CONCORDIA, ENSCHEDE
- RONDOM – GALERIE NOUVELLES IMAGES, DEN HAAG
- AKI FINALS – AKI ARTEZ, ENSCHEDE
- HAPTICOMANIA – KUNSTPODIUM T, TILBURG

2016
- MOME, BUDAPEST
- MARLER KUNSTSTERN, MARL

2015
- MARLER KUNSTSTERN, MARL
- JVA MAGDEBURG, MAGDEBURG
- TWENTE BIENNALE, ENSCHEDE
- FRAU WEBER KOCHT, DORTMUND (SOLO)

2014
- SPECOPS MÜNSTER (SOLO)
- ARTEZ EXPORUIMTE, ENSCHEDE

Public Collections

- MUSEUM LAM LISSE – ANCIENT SUPERFOOD
- MUSEUM LAM LISSE – KRAUT UND RÜBEN
- MINIATUURMUSEUM DEN HAAG – KLEINIGKEIT(M18B2)

Publications

- VISIT HTTPS:/KIRA-FROESE.COM/PUBLICATIONS/ TO SEE PUBLICATIONS

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2nd Prize: ALBRECHT/WILKE – Winner Online Solo Show

Congratulations to the artist duo ALBRECHT/WILKE: The Berlin artists Albrecht/Wilke (Tim Albrecht, *1992 in Berlin and Hannes Wilke, *1991 in Stade) are today the first of our two ART MATTERS 9 winners and will be presented in 2024 with a selection of their works on canvas and paper in a solo online exhibition on our website and our social media channels! Figurative, but also abstract, associative, subjective – the central theme of the works is the examination of the German middle class milieu. To this end, the artists blend the art and (pop) cultural history of the past century with a hefty dose of zeitgeist: We simply love their humorous play with clichés and ironic comparisons and already look forward to the collaboration!

"We are painters. We paint what we see. We paint what's good!" - with these sentences we introduce our manifesto "Good Painting". In contrast to the concept of bad painting, this initially seemingly bold slogan dissolves into a humorous play with clichés and ironic comparisons in the rest of the manifesto, just as we do with painting. Our pictures are an interweaving of formal elements, art-historical quotations and a lot of irony."

ALBRECHT/WILKE

Currywurst (Kommste vonne Schicht, Wat schönret gibt et nich’), 2023
oil and acrylic on canvas
140 x 120 cm

About Albrecht/Wilke ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

"We are painters. We paint what we see. We paint what is good!" – With these sentences we introduce our manifesto "Good Painting". In contrast to the concept of bad painting, the initially seemingly bold slogan dissolves into a humorous play with clichés and ironic comparisons in the rest of the manifesto, just as we do with painting. Our pictures are an interweaving of formal elements, art-historical quotations and a lot of irony. We draw on what surrounds us in our own lives and everyday life, pop culture, the internet or even art and cultural history. Our painting can be described as figurative, associative, subjective and also abstract. The central theme in our works is the examination of the German middle class milieu, the associated clichés and insignia of German national culture.

Tim Albrecht

born 1992 in Berlin, DE
lives and works in Berlin, DE

Hannes Wilke

born 1991 in Berlin, DE
lives and works in Berlin, DE

www.albrechtwilke.de
@albrecht_wilke

Education

2019
- Master Fine Arts HfbK Hamburg (Prof. Anselm Reyle)

2017
- Diploma Fine Arts BK Braunschweig (Prof. Wolfgang Ellenrieder)

Exhibitions

2023
- ART MATERS 8, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)
- Ball Berlin, Galerie Roberta Keil, Vienna
- Studio Mondial, Kurfürstendamm 47, Berlin
- Leidkultur, Hilbert Raum, Berlin
- Fucking Deliciouse Landscapes, Weserhalle, Berlin (S)
- The Cute Show, Expander.art, Berlin
- Zeitenwende, Csr.Art, Berlin
- Icebreaker-Journey, SB.Spacebetween, Nürnberg (S)

2022
- NAK Digitale Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
- Kunst und Stollen – mit Albrecht/Wilke, Kunststiftung Kunze, Gifhorn (S)
- Stammtisch Papillon, Künstlerhaus Andreasstadel, Regensburg
- Blue Horizons – Keen Hawaii, Icebreaker, Berlin
- Future Solos, Weserhalle, Berlin
- Café Dreams, Herrenstraße 46, Karlsruhe
- Die Klasse Anselm Reyle, Galerie Noah, Augsburg
- Better call Mark, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2021
- Art Auction, Weserhalle, Berlin
- NAK Digitale Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
- Urlaub auf Balkolonien, Owned by others, Berlin
- Hard Times Big Taste – The modern still life from Bodegon to Imbissstillleben, Duodez, Berlin
- Hunger/Durst, R52L, Berlin
- Lost Weekend Meets Young Art, Lost Weekend, Munich
- At A Moment In Time, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg

2020
- NAK Digitale Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
- Carnival Ecstasy, Museum Tropicana, Berlin (S)
- Liebesgrüße aus Syke, Syker Vorwerk, Syke
- Albrecht/Wilke und Franz, Gipsstraße 12, Berlin
- Jung, Figürlich, Gutaussehend, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg
- Der River, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig

2019
- Hiscox Kunstpreis, HFBK, Hamburg
- Gute Malerei, Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin (S)

2018
- Massephase, Sprink Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
- Fleisch Flesh Meat, Bunkerhill Galerie, Hamburg
- Hard Hot Hunger, Citygalerie Kunstverein Wolfsburg
- Neue Deutsche Malerei, Raum Linksrechts, Hamburg

2017
- Gute Malerei, HBK Braunschweig, Braunschweig (S)
- Muße, Schloss Holdenstedt, Kunstverein Uelzen

Prizes and Scholarships

2023
- Förderung Kunststiftung Kunze

2022
- Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis
- Neustart Kultur, Projektförderung
- Producersart, Rene Spiegelberger Stiftung, Projektförderung

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Albrecht/Wilke
Currywurst (Kommste vonne Schicht, Wat schönret gibt et nich’), 2023
oil and acrylic on canvas
140 x 120 cm (detail)

OVERVIEW OF OUR TOP 15

Our TOP 15 is complete – thank you for participating in our online group show to (from top left): Paul Ahl, Jan Jansen, Simone Pick, Jamie Drouin, Stephen Whatcott, Alejandro Javaloyas, Birgit Cauer, Danil Yordanov, Tom Cartmill, Amélie von Heydebreck, Heike Weber, Kira Fröse, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Nuss, Albrecht/Wilke & Xu Zheng.

About ART MATTERS 9:

Even with the 9th ART MATTERS round (8 regular and one special edition last summer), it was not easy for us to select only 15 artists for our online exhibition from the many great submissions we received in response to our last Open Artist Call. But it was a great pleasure to discover and get to know so many great artistic positions!

Many thanks to everyone who has been following this project, some for 9 editions already, and many thanks also - above all - to all participating artists, especially to our TOP 15 and the 45 Honourable Mentions (some of which we are still presenting today in our Instagram stories).

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ART MATTERS 8 – Special Summer Edition

Online Group Exhibition

Winner
Eric Keller

(group exhibition Landscapes from September 2024)

19 – 28/08/2023 ... more >

ERIC KELLER: Winner ART MATTERS Summer 2023

Congratulations to ERIC KELLER: The German artist (born 1985, lives and works in Dresden) is the winner of our ART MATTERS Summer 2023 competition with his painting “Einfahrt" (“Driveway“, 2022, oil on wood, 60 x 85 cm)!
We cordially invite him to participate with a selection of his works in a group exhibition on the theme LANDSCAPES at our gallery in Cologne in September 2024!

Eric Keller's pictures show places, cities and landscapes, sometimes also people and portraits. However, it is not only about copying a place or a person, but also about observing experienced moments, moods and processes. Keller transfers his visual memories into a painterly fiction, set in a placeless sphere full of moods and feelings. We are fascinated by the almost eerie atmosphere in his work, by the earthy colours and tones of his landscapes, which often seem strangely misty. Reminiscent of dream or film images, his works are certainly not optimistic, but the stories they unfold are very compelling in a peculiar way. Keller's images are ultimately fiction that show us an emotional way of perceiving reality.

"[...] The more intensively one looks, the better one's eyes grasp the transparent, vibrating and iridescent richness of Keller's colour fabrics. Beyond representational depictions, his paintings are also manifestos of what can be achieved with the means of painting. But Keller does not work conceptually. He does not need a theoretical underpinning and does not load his paintings with calculated references. Intuition and the inner visual memory play an important role. Unlike most representational painters today, he does not use photographs as models. "Everything I paint I have seen in real life," Keller explains. "But I don't capture anything in the landscapes and architectures, nor do I take photographs. At that moment on site, I don't yet know that a painting will come out of it." An unconscious saving. When painting, Keller returns to the spaces and topographical situations in his imagination. But he must have actually experienced all the impressions. "Otherwise they don't become usable for me." [...]" (Excerpt from Remembrance of the Present: Sebastian Preuss on the work of Eric Keller)

ERIC KELLER

Einfahrt, 2022

oil on wood

60 x 85 cm

About Eric Keller ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Reminder of the Present
von Sebastian Preuss

"These pictures have a pull that one cannot really explain at first. Nothing exciting is shown: deserted streets leading somewhere into a placeless topography, lonely benches, parks and rest areas, inconspicuous utility buildings, railway crossings, bus stops, a garage yard or a clubhouse, again and again the faded walls in abandoned cultural buildings from GDR times. Occasionally one or two young people stray into these inhospitable landscapes, and then you ask yourself: what are they actually doing here? Even the painterly means are not aimed at spectacular effects. On the contrary, the colouring is muted and pale, everything tone in tone, the faded violet, the earthy colours, lots of beige and yellow and brown. In addition, the pictorial world is covered by a gossamer blur. Everything seems somehow detached, unspectacular, without highlights. Nothing happens that could quickly overwhelm us.
But it is precisely in this strange mood, which cannot easily be put into words, in this aura somewhere between the banality of everyday life and unreal magic, that the great charm of Eric Keller's paintings lies. Many of them seem like frozen stills from a melancholic road movie, and one does well to engage with the quiet drive. Patience pays off, because the longer you look at the pictures, the more their layers of content and aesthetic depth reveal themselves. Then the motifs in their supposed ordinariness and "normality" turn out to be something quite extraordinary, namely as such sophisticated compositions that nothing in them is interchangeable or conceivable elsewhere. They are the perfect moments of a memory work that picks out of myriads of visual experiences those visual grains that can trigger an extraordinary work of art.
Keller's painting style is also a quiet sensation. The often large areas of colour are only monochrome at first glance; in reality they have a multifaceted inner life. They oscillate in their nuances, develop in the sky of the landscapes from dull grey to subtly glowing orange, from yellowish blue to pink, on the streets to darkened asphalt or brightened violet. By repeatedly painting over his formations, Keller reveals refined layers of depth beneath the surfaces. Thus each colour is composed of different colours, layered on top of each other, translucent in thin streaks, sometimes stringy, sometimes fine-grained, sometimes diffusely dissolved as if in an acid bath. Keller confidently demonstrates his skills by looking into disused cultural buildings and inns, mostly in his native Saxony. There he is fascinated by the faded wall colours that are in the process of disappearing. What the course of history and the dissolving power of nature brought about in the real buildings leads Keller to create a particularly complex painting on canvas. In his work, the depictions of decay become washed-out or torn, cloudy or trickling abstractions - masterly cabinet pieces in which one wonders again and again whether a wall or a picture within a picture is actually meant here.
The more intensively one looks, the better one's eyes grasp the transparent, vibrating and iridescent richness of Keller's colour fabrics. Beyond representational depictions, his paintings are also manifestos of what can be achieved with the means of painting. But Keller does not work conceptually. He does not need a theoretical underpinning and does not load his paintings with calculated references. Intuition and the inner visual memory play an important role. Unlike most representational painters today, he does not use photographs as models. "Everything I paint I have seen in real life," Keller explains. "But I don't capture anything in the landscapes and architectures, nor do I take photographs. At that moment on site, I don't yet know that a painting will come out of it." An unconscious saving. When painting, Keller returns to the spaces and topographical situations in his imagination. But he must have actually experienced all the impressions. "Otherwise they don't become usable for me."
It is a memory that comes from the present. And a real today, because most of the impressions Keller has transferred into his pictorial cosmos since 2011 were experienced in Saxony. This is where he was born in Grimma, where he received his first artistic inspiration from a Leipzig painter at the age of 19, before he began studying at the Nuremberg Academy. Much more formative was his time at the Dresden Art Academy. "That's where we painted," says Keller succinctly. He finished his studies in Leipzig. Now, one could easily refer to the figurative tradition that lived on after the end of the GDR or use one of the meaningless labels such as the "New Leipzig School". But that does not get to the heart of Keller's art. He does not deal with either "Dresden" or "Leipzig" currents in a formative way, even though interiors and architecture are often found there. Keller's rapturous brushstrokes, the auratic use of colour, the implied and shadowy quality, all this can just as easily be compared with the Belgian Luc Tuymans, to name but one example. And a work like Keller's "Schönbach", which shows nothing but a white-cubic building on thin pillars à la Corbusier against a southern glowing sky, could also be spontaneously attributed to a Californian artist. Yet the inspiration goes back to a kitchen studio on a Saxon motorway. But localisable details - even where they actually exist - are not essential in Keller's work. He transfers his visual memories into a painterly fiction, set in a placeless sphere full of moods and feelings. Even if the visual fund has a lot to do with Saxony and some with the legacy of the GDR, in method it is not "East German" painting (32 years after the fall of the Wall, this categorisation should be thrown on the dustbin of history anyway). It is a painting of today."

Eric Keller

born 1985 in Grimma, DE
lives and work in Dresden, DE

www.erickeller.net
@_eric_keller

Education

2006-08
- Studied Fine Arts at the AdBK Nuremberg with Prof. Rolf-Gunter Dienst

2008-14
- Studied painting at the HfBK Dresden with Prof. Elke Hopfe and Prof. Ralf Kerbach

2016-18
- Master Student at the HGB Leipzig with Prof. Annette Schröter

Solo Exhibitions

2023
- »Ginstergrund«, Galerie Poll, Berlin

2022
- »spellbound«, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt/Main

2021
- »Eric Keller – Malerei«, Schaulager der Galerie Poll, Berlin

2020
- »Nachsaison«, Galerie Poll, Berlin
- »Traces« (mit Thoas Fißler), AG Galerie Schwerin

2019
- »Interference« (mit Katrína Dubovská), Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden
- »paravent« (mit Carolin Israel), plan.d., Düsseldorf

2018
- »Stille Drift«, Galerie Poll, Berlin
- »HALALI« (mit Michael Klipphahn), Museum Schloss Klippenstein, Radeberg

2017
- »Rupfen in fremden Gärten« (mit Michael Klipphahn), Kunztraum, Dresden
- »Rücksitz Cinema«, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt/Main

2015
- »Ein Date am Kanal«, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt/Main
- Eric Keller, galerie baer, Dresden
- Präsentation des Werkes »Talsperre« im Rahmen der VA »Begegnung der Künste«, Lichthof Albertinum, Dresden

2014
- »Novemberkind«, galerie baer, Dresden

2013
- »Eric Keller/Simon Rosenthal - Malerei und Zeichnung«, Galerie Poll, Berlin

2012
- »Freizeittreff Fortschritt«, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig
- »Von Nah und Fern« (mit Carolin Israel), Galerie der HfBK Dresden

2011
- »Andreas Wachter und Eric Keller«, Galerie Irrgang, Berlin

Group Exhibitions

2023
- »ART MATTERS SUMMER 2023«, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)

2022
- Gruppenausstellung, Galerie Wellemeyer, Plau am See
- »Speed Dating«, Motorenhalle Dresden
- »Speed Dating«, Theatre des Exposition/Palais des Beaux Arts, Paris

2021
- »Von der Kunst, Kunst zu fördern«, Städtische Galerie Dresden
- »Kunstpreis Kunst, Psyche und Gesundheit – Shortlist 2021«, FBZ, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum

2020
- »Existenz Kapitel II: Spuren«, Oktogon, HfBK Dresden
- »Ereignis Malerei«, Tapetenwerk Leipzig
- »Im Gehäuse – Atelierdarstellungen Leipziger Künstler*innen«, Kunsthalle des Sparkasse Leipzig

2019
- »Neuzugänge zeitgenössischer Kunst im Kunstfonds 2019«, Vertretung des Freistaates Sachsen beim Bund, Berlin
- »Wonderwall«, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt/Main
- »Win Win«, Halle 14, Leipzig
- »In Memoriam – Hieronymus Wachter«, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig
- »Deutsche Heimat«, Galerie Holger John, Dresden
- »KONVOI«, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt/Main

2018
- »Ursulasalon«, Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden
- »Collisione«, LAZ Galerie, Zürich, CH
- »KONVOI«, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt
- »M18«, HGB Leipzig
- »Existenz Kapitel 1: Skizzen«, Oktogon, HfBK Dresden
- »Aphrodisiac«, Galerie Evelyn Drewes, Hamburg
- »Eberhard-Dietzsch-Kunstpreis«, Volksbank Gera
- Rundgang HGB Leipzig

2017
- »Liebelei«, objekt klein a, Dresden
- »The human aspect I + II – zeitgenössische figurative Positionen«, Barlachhalle Hamburg
- »Mitten im Mai :: Malerei«, Kunstverein Sulzfeld
- »The human aspect II – zeitgenössische figurative Positionen«, Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden
- »Klasse Klasse!!«, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig
- »Seitenwechsel«, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt/Main
- Rundgang HGB Leipzig
- »Stadt-Land-Raum – Sammlung Zander-Schürer«, Kunztraum, Dresden

2016
- Gruppenshow, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt/Main
- »Markt«, Kunztraum, Dresden
- »Ich dachte, Sie wären nur ein armer Schlucker!«, KOMMUNALKA, Leipzig
- »no3 Positur!«, Galerie FF15, Leipzig
- »Dresden«, Galerie Hoffschild, Lübeck
- »My Heart´s in the Highlands«, Galerie junge zeitgenössische Kunst, Chemnitz
- »Na dosah/Greifbar nah«, Kunstmuseum Galerie Cheb, CZ
- »Na dosah/Greifbar nah«, Kunstmuseum Galerie Plsen, CZ

2015
- Bilder im Filmprojekt »24 Wochen« von Anne Zohra Berrached

2014
- »Santa Cloud«, galerie baer, Dresden
- »okay.whiteout«, Delikatessenhaus Leipzig
- »Startpoint Prize«, DOX, Prag
- »Postcards from The East«, APT Gallery, London, GB
- »Diplomausstellung«, HfBK Dresden
- »Mensch werde wesentlich«, KV Freunde Aktueller Kunst, Zwickau
- »Dada TY«, HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden
- »Landschaften«, Galerie Poll, Berlin
- »inner cities«, Galerie Irrgang, Berlin

2013
- »Wintercollective II«, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig
- »All Star Cast«, galerie baer, Dresden
- »Hype«, geh8, Dresden

2012
- »Addition«, galerie baer, Dresden
- »Frühwerk«, F14, Dresden
- »Keine Bilder ohne Liebe«, Galerie Poll, Berlin
- »Kabinettausstellung«, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig

2011
- »Frühjahrssalon«, Galerie ZanderKasten, Dresden
- »Wintercollective«, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig
- »Kellerausstellung« der Gruppe ZWANZIGZEHN, Dresden

2010
- »Seminar«, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig

Public Collections

- Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
- Städtische Galerie Dresden
- Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
- Galerie Neue Meister der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
- Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden
- PPZK Deutschland
- Kunstsammlung der Roland-Graefe-Stiftung

Bibliography

- Galerie Poll (Hrsg.): Eric Keller – Nachsaison; Berlin; 2021
- Eva und Lothar C. Poll (Hrsg.): Keine Bilder ohne Liebe; Druckerei Conrad; Berlin; 2012; ISBN: 978-3-931759-32-2
- Galerie Irrgang GbR Leipzig/Berlin (Hrsg.): Eric Keller – Freizeittreff Fortschritt; Leipzig 2012
- Diplomkatalog, HfBK Dresden, 2014
- Torsten Klaus: Ödnis und Fülle; in Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 16.10.2014
- Katja Lindenau: Die Wärme des November; in SAX 10/14, S. 27
- Liane Wendt: Auf der Suche nach der inneren Ruhe – Eric Keller; in kunnst Sommer 2016, S. 14 bis 21
- Wilhelm Werthern: Eric Keller – Künstler des Monats; in LE MONDE diplomatique, Deutsche Ausgabe, Mai 2016
- Kulturkreis Sulzfeld/Galerie Leuenroth (Hrsg.): Mitten im Mai; Lubok Verlag; Leipzig 2017; ISBN: 978-3-945111-36-9
- Karl Kowalke (Hrsg.): Liebelei; Dresden 2017
- Patrick-Daniel Baer: Rupfen in fremden Gärten – Eric Keller und Michael Klipphahn; www.cybersax.de
- Patrick-Daniel Baer: Der Laptop, der auf einer Bank sitzt; in Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 28.05.2018
- Christiane Meixner: Urbane Romantik – Eric Keller in der Galerie Poll; in Tagesspiegel, 23.07.2018
- Eva und Lothar C. Poll (Hrsg.): Abenteuer Kunst – 50 Jahre Galerie Poll; Katalogdruck-Berlin; Berlin; 2018; ISBN: 978-3-931-759-40-7
- Annette Schröter (Hrsg.): KONVOI – Annette Schröter und Meisterklasse; Pöge Druck, Leipzig 2018
- Patrick-Daniel Baer: Der Heimat-Hirsch; in Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 28.03.2019
- Patrick-Daniel Baer: Interference; in SAX, November 2019
- Patrick-Daniel Baer: Hybride Verbindung; in DNN, 21.11.2019
- Echo Licht, Ausgabe 2: Über das Feiern, Kulturheldenradio, 2020
- Berliner Abendschau, rbb, 31.10.2020
- Bund Bildender Künstler Leipzig e.V. (Hrsg.): Ereignis Malerei 2020, Leipzig 2020
- Julia Christian: State of the Art oder Kunstkränzchen – Oskar Rink im Gespräch mit Eric Keller; in Stadtluft Dresden, Bookzin 5, S. 60-63, Dresden 2020, ISBN 978-3-86530-264-9

Eric Keller
Einfahrt, 2022
oil on wood
60 x 85 cm (detail)

OVERVIEW OF OUR TOP 9

Lorenz Bögle - Hanna Kaminski - Luis Zimmermann
Maximilian Welz - Lars Unger - Christo Daskaltsis
Eric Keller - Jean/Yohanan Delaunay-Israël - Marc Fiegle

Our final TOP 9 is complete! Thank you for participating in our online group exhibition (from top left): Lorenz Bögle, Hanna Kaminski, Luis Zimmermann, Maximilian Welz, Lars Unger, Christo Daskaltsis, Eric Keller, Jean/Yohanan Delaunay-Israël & Marc Fiegle.

Check out our last 9 posts further down or on Instagram to find out everything about ART MATTERS Summer 2023 and the 9 artists/artworks we selected via our latest open call!

And check back later at 6pm when we announce the winner of our online competition from the 9 finalists. Today is finals day and we reveal the name of the artist who will be invited to participate in a group exhibition on the theme of LANDSCAPES at our gallery in Cologne.

About ART MATTERS SUMMER 2023:
The first Special Summer Edition of our ART MATTERS series followed our recent 8th Open Artist Call, with which for the first time we set a theme for submissions: LANDSCAPES. In selecting the artists and their works, we did not necessarily focus on classic, figurative landscape depictions. And so we also present abstract, almost minimalist works that often only convey the idea of a landscape and make the exhibition an eclectic overall presentation.

Also for this latest ART MATTERS round, it was not easy for us to choose only 9 artists for our online exhibition from the many great submissions we received in response to our 8th open call. There are so many remarkable things out there, but we cannot show them all in our gallery. The ART MATTERS series allows us to present many artistic positions from around the world to a wider online audience two or three a year for about two weeks.

Many thanks to all of you who follow this project, some of you for 8 issues already, and many thanks also to all participating artists, especially to our TOP 9 and the 27 Honourable Mentions (there are still some to be presented on our Instagram Stories today!).

The works are available through our gallery until 10 September: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

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ART MATTERS 7

Online Group Exhibition

1st Winner
Austin Turley

(group exhibition achromatic January-March 2024)

2nd Winner
Elizabeth Charnock

(online solo exhibition At a Distance October-December 2023)

8 – 23/04/2023 ... more >

AUSTIN TURLEY: Winner Gallery Group Show

Congratulations to AUSTIN TURLEY: The US artist (born 1977, lives and works in Portland, OR) is the second of our two ART MATTERS 7 winners and will be invited with a selection of his works to a group exhibition at our gallery in Cologne in early 2024 (TBD)! We are intrigued by Turley’s artistic exploration of kiln-formed, cold-worked glass. The resulting wall objects are intimately small and fragile, yet bold and striking. We already have some ideas for a beautiful presentation with Austin Turley's works and look forward to working with the artist in the near future!

“Spontaneity, improvisation, and techniques of the bricoleur are the result of keen observations, which can lead to finding relevancy in the unexpected. I believe my modes of making are parallel to those of the bricoleur, exploring the notion that science and mystical thought are equivalent approaches to understanding the world around us. I am interested in the transformative character of objects as they evolve, erode, and alter throughout time. As I continue to learn and experiment with the complexities of kiln formed glass, my focus and research revolves around the language of the medium itself, how it behaves, its characteristics, and its properties. I believe emphasizing these rhythms, patterns, and formations possess the capacity to act as a proxy for things beyond itself and its seemingly simple physical existence. This correspondence between the glass is a layered iterative process of unmaking and remaking, engaging strategies of repetition, interference, and disruption. My aim is to create presence within the overlooked and challenge how we view, experience, and navigate our conditions.“

AUSTIN TURLEY

Variant 5, 2022
kiln formed, cold worked glass
18 x 13 x 2 cm

The work is available through our gallery: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

About Austin Turley ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Spontaneity, improvisation and techniques of the bricoleur are the result of keen observations, which can lead to finding relevancy in the unexpected. I believe my modes of making are parallel to those of the bricoleur, exploring the notion that science and mystical thought are equivalent approaches to understanding the world around us. I am interested in the transformative character of objects as they evolve, erode, and alter throughout time. As I continue to learn and experiment with the complexities of kiln formed glass, my focus and research revolves around the language of the medium itself, how it behaves, its characteristics, and its properties. I believe emphasizing these rhythms, patterns, and formations possess the capacity to act as a proxy for things beyond itself and its seemingly simple physical existence. This correspondence between the glass is a layered iterative process of unmaking and remaking, engaging strategies of repetition, interference, and disruption. My aim is to create presence within the overlooked and challenge how we view, experience, and navigate our conditions.

Austin Turley

1977 born
lives and works in Portland, OR

www.austinturley.com
@austinturley

Education

2013
- BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021
- Unparticular, Lazy Eye Ranch, Yucca Valley, CA
- Slake Thy Thirst, Forsberg Gallery, Lower Colombia College, Longview, WA

2020
- Twenty One, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX

2019
- As Always As Usual, Blackfish Gallery Window Project, Portland, OR

2018
- Correspondence, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX

2016
- Glean, Furthermore Space, Portland, OR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
- ART MATTERS 7, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, DE (online)
- DNA, Espace Solidar Museum, Cagnes-sur-Mer, FR (upcoming)
- The Power of Infinity, Alfa Galley, online

2022
- Art Basel Group Show, Alfa Gallery, Miami, FL
- Glass Works, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR
- Unlimited, Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design, Portland, OR
- Pilchuck 50: The Next 50, Fremont Studios, Seattle, WA
- FLOW, Alfa Galley, online
- ALC Video Art Festival, Alicante Museum of Contemporary Art, Alicante, ES
- Untitled Miami, Alfa Gallery, online
- Fantasy Fountain, Co-Re, Haus der Statisik, Berlin, DE

2021
- Reflections: Pilchuck at 50, Pilchuck Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 10X10X10, Mighty Tieton Warehouse, Tieton, WA
- Videofenster, Ed Baima, Cologne, DE
- Surfing, Alfa Gallery, Miami, FL
- Experimental Film and Video 2021, CICA Museum, Gimpo, KR
- Booth 08 | Online Viewing Rooms, Alfa Gallery, Miami, FL
- Yellowstone Art Auction 53, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT

2020
- Minimalism, ShockBoxx, Hermosa Beach, CA
- Flat File 2020, Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY
- Delicious Procession, Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, DE
- Art From Afar: The Shape of Content, Off The Cost, online
- Hard Fluid Betrayal, Pilotenkueche, online
- Almost Tension, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, DE

2019
- 29th International Sculpture Conference Exhibition, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
- Small and Smaller, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- Project Room, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX
- Was It Worth It, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
- 14th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
- Group Exhibition, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX

2018
- Small Matters, 437CO-Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO
- Unlimited, PAGE Space, Portland, OR
- Everything We Do Is Music, Gallery 114, Portland, OR
- Punch Projects presents: Barnstorm, Bluestone Garage, Ellensburg, WA
- Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
- Valdosta National, Dedo Maranville Gallery-Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA

2017
- 40 Under 40, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX
- nternational Juried Show, Larkin Arts, Harrisonburg, VA
- Texas National, The Cole Art Center-Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX

2016
- Glass Works, Bullseye Resource Center, Portland, OR
- The Reconsidered Landscape, Perry and Carlson, Mount Vernon, WA
- State of the Unions, Core New Art Space, Denver, CO

2015
- ethos, pathos, logos, Gallery 114, Portland, OR
- Abstract Sanctuary, Verum Ultimum, Portland, OR
- The National Chautauqua Exhibition: Strategizing, Giles Gallery-Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY

2014
- The Living Mark, Verum Ultimum, Portland, OR
- 19th Annual Arts in Harmony International Show, The Sherburne County Government Center, St. Paul, MN

Residencies / Awards

2023
- Rent Free Residency, Off the Cost, online (upcoming)

2022
- Gold Award, Glass Works, Bullseye Projects
- Hafnarborg Residency, Hafnarfjörður, IS

2021
- Yucca Valley Material Lab Residency, Yucca Valley, CA

2020
- Hangar Residency, Lisbon, PT
- Pilotenkueche Residency, Leipzig, DE

2019
- Working Artist Grant / Purchase Award, Working Artist Org
- Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission
- Hinge Arts Residency, Fergus Falls, MN
- Travel Grant, Springboard for the Arts

2017
- Professional Development Grant, Regional Arts and Cultural Council
- Arquetopia Residency, Puebla, MX

2016
- Glean Residency, Portland, OR

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Austin Turley
Variant 5, 2022
kiln formed, cold worked glass
18 x 13 x 2 cm (detail)

Austin Turely
Variant 5, 2022
kiln formed, cold worked glass
18 x 13 x 2 cm

ELIZABETH CHARNOCK: Winner Online Solo Show

Congratulations to ELIZABETH CHARNOCK: The young artist (born 1990 in the UK, lives and works in Berlin) is today the first of our two ART MATTERS 7 winners and will be presented with a selection of her ink drawings in an online solo exhibition on our website and social media channels in late 2023 (TBD)! Charnock's uninhabited spaces and urban situations are hauntingly beautiful. With her focused and clear visual vocabulary, she succeeds in stimulating our playful imagination. Her painterly minimalism also allows for open associations about our modern civilisation. We feel very connected to the artist's work, look forward to the collaboration and are excited to see where it will take us!

"The built environment and urban planning ideologies are common themes throughout her practice. Spatial relationships inform her work at all scales – from entire cities and street scenes, to the seemingly banal small structures which permeate our surroundings. By referencing a large body of documentary photography, she mentally collages multiple urban elements into imagined environments, which are meticulously rendered with multiple layers of ink on paper.
Her work often captures moments ‘in-between’ – miniature snapshots of tranquility before or after human activity. The scenes she creates inhabit realms that are entirely fictional, yet instantly recognisable. The uninhabited spaces evoke feelings of isolation, offering familiarity – but only at a distance – whilst inviting the viewer to reassess their own sense of place within the setting."

ELIZABETH CHARNOCK

Through the trees II, 2023

ink on paper
50 x 40 cm (without frame)

The work is available through our gallery: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

About Elizabeth Charnock ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Originally from the UK, Elizabeth Charnock has lived and worked in Berlin since 2015.

The built environment and urban planning ideologies are common themes throughout her practice. Spatial relationships inform her work at all scales – from entire cities and street scenes, to the seemingly banal small structures which permeate our surroundings. By referencing a large body of documentary photography, she mentally collages multiple urban elements into imagined environments, which are meticulously rendered with multiple layers of ink on paper.

Her work often captures moments ‘in-between’ – miniature snapshots of tranquility before or after human activity. The scenes she creates inhabit realms that are entirely fictional, yet instantly recognisable. The uninhabited spaces evoke feelings of isolation, offering familiarity – but only at a distance – whilst inviting the viewer to reassess their own sense of place within the setting.

Elizabeth Charnock

1990 born in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
lives and works in Berlin

www.elizabethcharnock.com
@elizabethcharnock

Education

2015-17
- Meisterschüler studies, Fine Art – HfBK Dresden, Prof. Martin Honert

2013-15
- Diploma, Fine Art – HfBK Dresden, Prof. Martin Honert

2009-13
- Bachelor Degree, Art and Design – University of Leeds

2008-09
- Foundation Diploma, Art – Birmingham Institute of Art & Design

Awards and Nomionations

2015
- Art Prize “Junger Westen”, Recklinghausen, nomination and exhibition

2014-15
- DAAD Scholarship for Artists, Dresden

2013
- FUAM Graduate Art Prize, Leeds Nomination and exhibition

Exhibitions

2023
- ART MATTERS 7 – Galerie Biesenbach. Cologne (online)

2022
-Spring Auction – Weserhalle, Berlin
-Game ON! Vol. 4 – Hilbertraum, Berlin
-Game ON! Vol. 3 – Künstlerhaus Dortmund
-Start to Finish – TOR Artspace, Frankfurt (co-curation)
- Art Auction for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity, The Hurlingham Club – London, Hosted by Artsy
- Eleonora Nanu // Elizabeth Charnock (duo) – Ines Schulz Gallery – Dresden
- Paper Story – Ladies Drawing Club (online)
- No Splash – SWIMMING POOL STUDIO, Berlin (solo)

2021
- Guest Exhibition @ Studio Ella Becker – Berlin (solo)
- Spring Auction, Weserhalle – Berlin-Neukölln
- Maratona di visione – Officina15, Bologna

2020
- REKORD – Kunstkaufhalle – ACUD Galerie, Berlin-Mitte

2019
- roundabout – BCMA Berlin
- Downsized – Raum2, Gallery Grölle Pass Projects, Wuppertal (solo)
- Presence III – 48h Neukölln, Fincan Neukölln, Berlin
- Chronicle – Projektraum Bethanien, Berlin
- Welcome To the Pink – Fincan Neukölln, Berlin

2018
- Heatwave – Gallery Ines Schulz, Dresden (duo)
- Talking Modern – Geh8, Dresden
- Existenz – Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden

2017
- Now! – Galerie Ines Schulz, Dresden (duo)

2016
- Nach Wroclaw, nach Wroclaw! – Breslau Contemporary Museum, Poland
- Hängung #3 – Gerson Höger Gallery, Hamburg
- GorbatSHOW Plus – AK 68 Gallery im Ganserhaus, Wasserburg
- Meisterschülerausstellung – Kunstmesse Dresden
- DCA Rundgang Ausstellung – Gallery Stephanie Kelly, Dresden

2015
- Kunstpreis Junger Westen – Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
- Diplomausstellung – Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden
- Bilderladen – Galerie Holger John, Dresden
- Minimal Art Gallery – Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden
- Points on a Compass – BISHOP Gallery, Dresden

2014
- Kunstlotterie – Gallery m2a, Dresden
- Jahresausstellung – Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden

2013
- Degree Show – University of Leeds
- Best of Degree Shows – Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow
- FUAM Graduate Art Prize – Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds

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Elizabeth Charnock
Through the trees II, 2023
ink on paper
50 x 40 cm (detail)

OVERVIEW OF OUR TOP 15

Our TOP 15 is complete – thank you for participating in our online group show to (from top left): Stephen Whatcott, Benjamin Schoones, Tom Cartmill, Petra Schmidt, Anja Rausch, Austin Turley, Pascal Ungerer, John Trashkowsky, Nicolas Vionnet, Heike Weber, Sinéad Butler-Aldridge, Nadine Karl, David Mohr, Elizabeth Charnock & Jaewon Kim.

Check out our last 15 posts further down or on Instagram to find out everything about ART MATTERS 7 and the 15 artists/artworks we selected via our latest open call!

And make sure to come back later when we declare the two winners of our online competition. It is finals day today and we reveal:

- at 5pm the artist who will be rewarded an online solo show

- at 6pm the artist who will be invited to participate in a group show in our gallery in Cologne.

About:

Also for the 7th ART MATTERS round, it was not easy for us to choose only 15 artists for our online exhibition from the many great submissions we received in response to our 7th open call for artists. But it was a great pleasure for us to discover so many great artists! There are so many remarkable things out there, but we cannot show them all in our gallery. The ART MATTERS series allows us to present many artistic positions from around the world to a wider online audience twice a year for just over two weeks.

Many thanks to all of you who follow this project, some of you for 7 issues already, and many thanks also to all participating artists, especially to our TOP 15 and the 45 Honourable Mentions (there are still some to be presented today!).

The works are available through our gallery until 7 May: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

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ART MATTERS 6

Online Group Exhibition

1st Winner
Molly Thomson

(group exhibition TRIALOGUE – Aspects of Abstraction June-August 2023)

2nd Winner
Rosina Rosinski

(online solo exhibition Damian February-April 2023)

15 – 30/10/2022 ... more >

FINALS DAY: Sunday 30 October

MOLLY THOMSON: Winner Gallery Group Show

Congratulations to Molly Thomson: The Scottish artist (*1953, lives and works in Norwich, England) is the second of our two ART MATTERS 6 winners and will take part in a group exhibition at our gallery in Cologne in 2023 with a selection of her works! More about this soon.

The fact that with Molly Thomson, former MA (Painting) student at the Royal College of Art in London, we have a second female winner is pure coincidence. Her work, however, fits seamlessly into our largely abstract-minimalist gallery programme. The subject of "sculptural painting" has interested us for many years and Thomson - primarily a painter - also explores the subject of the painting and its hybrid identities.

"Beginning most often with the simple fact of the rectangular painting panel I place myself in the position of both agent and observer, using acts of cutting, reassembling and pouring to re-form - and respond to - each piece. I am interested not only in the layered facade that is presented, but also in the fact that the painting casts and contains shadows.
[…] Interior spaces are often implicated, even if only glimpsed through the smallest of openings, and I am interested in the quiet question that such breaks in the facade might pose. Sometimes the paintings are layered, suggesting compressed strata of parallel surfaces. Some paintings may quietly allude to what cannot or shouldn’t be seen, while others flex their joints or extend their surfaces with a touch more expansiveness. […]"

We already have some ideas for a group exhibition with Molly Thomson's works and look forward to collaborating with the artist in the near future!

MOLLY THOMSON

Painting with wedged interior, 2022
acrylic, filler, wooden panel
36 x 27 x 6 cm

The work is available through our gallery: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

About Molly Thomson ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

My conversation is with the object of the painting and with its hybrid identities. Beginning most often with the simple fact of the rectangular painting panel I place myself in the position of both agent and observer, using acts of cutting, reassembling and pouring to re-form - and respond to - each piece. I am interested not only in the layered facade that is presented, but also in the fact that the painting casts and contains shadows. There is always a delicate balance between control and the unpredictable behaviour of materials, and the process advances by slow increments, mis-steps and revisions. Occasionally work descends from the wall and demands space or even mobility. There is play and sometimes there is humour.

Current work continues to evolve through the setting of a series of problems and displacements in each structure. Interior spaces are often implicated, even if only glimpsed through the smallest of openings, and I am interested in the quiet question that such breaks in the facade might pose. Sometimes the paintings are layered, suggesting compressed strata of parallel surfaces. Some paintings may quietly allude to what cannot or shouldn’t be seen, while others flex their joints or extend their surfaces with a touch more expansiveness. Often it can seem to me that order is provisional - something to be tampered with.

Molly Thomson

1953 born in Perth, Scotland
lives and works near Norwich

mollythomson.com
@mollythomson555

Education

- MA (Painting) – Royal College of Art, London
- Diploma in Post-Graduate studies (Sculpture) – Edinburgh College of Art
- MA Fine Art (Sculpture) – Edinburgh University and College of Art

Selected Exhibitions (since 2000)

Forthcoming

2023
- At Cross Purposes, Oriel Mon, Anglesey, North Wales
- At Cross Purposes, Queen Street Studios, Belfast, North Ireland

Currrent and past

2022
- ART MATTERS 6, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (G, online)
- Group show, &Gallery, Edinburgh
- Paint Edgy, Contemporary British Painting, Ropewalk Gallery, Barton-upon-Humber, England
- An Expanding Field, Gloam, Sheffield, England
- Vitalistic Fantasies, Contemporary British Painting, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
- Line,Colour and Form, (3-person exhibition), &Gallery, Edinburgh
- Paradoxes, Contemporary British Painting, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight

2021
- ART MATTERS 4, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)
- Border Crossing, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough
- Que des femmes. 6th Biennial of Non-Objective Art, Pont de Claix, France
- Perceiving Anomalies, Yellow Archangel, General Practice, Lincoln
- Rock, Paper, Scissors, Houghton Hall, Norfolk
- Orbit, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania

2020
- Vitalistic Fantasies, Contemporary British Painting, The Cello Factory, London
- A Fine Balance, Houghton Hall, 19), 2019), Norfolk
- Image_Object, Poimena Gallery, Mona Foma festival, Launceston

2019
- neo:art prize, Bolton Art Gallery, Bolton
- Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
- Creekside Open 2019, APT Gallery, London
- The End of Lines, X Marks the Spot, Great Yarmouth
- Contemporary British Painting, Norwich Cathedral, Norwich
- Made in Britain, Contemporary British Painting, National Museum of Poland, Gdansk
- 4-person exhibition, Gray Contemporary, Houston, Texas

2018
- Artworks Open 2018, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
- Beep Painting Biennial, Swansea Art School, Swansea

2017
- Contemporary British Painting Prize, Stables Gallery, Orleans House, Richmond Museum London

2016
- Plenty of time to lose your balance, Nunn’s Yard Gallery, Norwich
- PING, The Minories, Colchester

2014
- Of Other Spaces, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University
- Recent Works, Thirteen A Gallery, Norwich (solo)

2012
- Regrouping, Bend in the River Gallery, Workstation, Sheffield
- x-Church, Gainsborough

2011
- Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

2010
- We Are What We Do, Stew Gallery, Norwich

2009
- Locus, Visions Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

2008
- Digital Eyes 2008-2009,Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

2007
- Siggraph 2007, Global Eyes, San Diego, USA

2006
- Unsern Nachbarn, Haus Metternich, Koblenz, Germany
- Proof, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff

2005
- V9-U9 Project, Print Portfolio, (India/UK)

2002
- On the Edge, Salthouse, Norfolk

2000
- Connections, John Innes Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich
- Drawing Connections, Beach Museum, Kansas, USA

Residencies

2011
- Orford Ness, Suffolk

2009
- Asabi School of Art, Tokyo

Writing

2017
- ‘Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures’, review in Journal of Contemporary Painting (issue 4.1)
- Joint guest-editor of Journal of Contemporary Painting (issue 3.1&2: Painting as Commitment)

Article

2021
- Interview with Contemporary British Painting. October newsletter

Teaching

1991-2010
- Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Norwich University College of the Arts

Molly Thomson
Painting with wedged interior, 2022
acrylic, filler, wooden panel
36 x 27 x 6 cm

Molly Thomson
Painting with wedged interior, 2022
acrylic, filler, wooden panel
36 x 27 x 6 cm (detail)

ROSINA ROSINSKI: Winner Online Solo Show

Congratulations to Rosina Rosinski: The young artist (*1989, lives and works in Dortmund, DE) is the first of our two ART MATTERS 6 winners today and will - in 2023 - be presented with a selection of her paintings in an online solo exhibition on our website and social media channels! More info soon.

With the highest level of female artist participation in our ART MATTERS competition ever, it is only fitting that at least one winner is a woman. Rosina Rosinski's bold paintings and self-portraits feature strong, larger-than-life female figures and are based on Christian and mythological iconography. At first glance garish, colourful and loud, the paintings increasingly draw the viewer in, discussing gender issues and tackling themes of life, death and vanity.

Rosina Rosinski is only our second female winner after Patrizia Kränzlein (ART MATTERS 2). And it is also the first time ever that figurative art has won in our competition. This is also due to the fact that we received and were able to select from more figurative works than in all previous ART MATTERS editions.

Rosinski's works represent a completely new and exciting direction for us. They not only work in physical space, but their vibrant colours and Rosinski's meticulous way of painting clean, print-like surfaces make them perfect for online presentations. We feel a strong connection to the artist's work, look forward to the collaboration and are excited to see where it will take us!

ROSINA ROSINSKI

Home safely (Venus mourning the death of Adonis), 2022
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
150 x 195 cm

The work is available through our gallery: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

About Rosina Rosinski ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a female artist who was born in 1989 in Dortmund, Germany. I studied art theory and quit my master’s degree in 2019. I just had a moment when theory did not make sense to me anymore. Everyone had something to say about art and none of us had ever had a brush or a can of paint in their hand. That is when I started painting autodidactically in 2019 while working in an auction house. Since this summer I am a full-time painter.

My paintings are basically large scale self-portraits which are based on Christian and mythological iconography. I translate that iconography into the present and my own personal narrative by depicting personal experience. My portraits focus mostly on the female body and the history of its depiction, pointing out the male gaze and long-established visual perceptions. The female bodies in my paintings become more and more muscular and I depict them larger than life. That way, they can occupy a whole room, they are present, more than I am most of the time and they reveal the discrepancy between physical and psychological strength and reverse stereotypes. Biblical and mythological characters are switched gender-wise. In painting nudes, often embedded in still-lives, I point out the relationship between human flesh and meat and how both are often equated in our society. In relating meat and flesh, topics of life, death and vanity are tackled. My paintings, which in exhibitions give the recipient the feeling of entering a candy store at first glance, are really quite uncomfortable at second glance. I use bright colors and I have a very meticulous way of painting neat, print-like surfaces to conflict with dark subject matters.

Rosina Rosinski

1989 born in Dortmund
lives and works in Dortmund

@rosina.rosinski

since 2017
Folkwang Universität der Künste/Universität Duisburg-Essen
Master Art and Design Science

2013-2017
Universität Duisburg-Essen
2-subject BA Art Studies/Anglophone Studies

Solo and Group Exhibitions

2022
- ART MATTERS 6, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online)
- Summer Edition ‘22, Circle of None, London (G, online)
- The Rise of Inside, Eve Leibe Gallery, London (G, online)
- ROSINA, Galerie Norbert Arns, Cologne (S)

2021
- From Her to Eternity, Galerie Norbert Arns, Cologne (G)

Publication

Artsin Square, Print and Digital Magazine Edition 3, ‘Summer ‘22‘
artsinsquare.com/issue3

Rosina Rosinski
Home safely (Venus mourning the death of Adonis), 2022
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
150 x 195 cm

Rosina Rosinski
Home safely (Venus mourning the death of Adonis), 2022
acrylic and airbrush on canvas
150 x 195 cm (detail)

Our TOP 15

Our TOP 15 is complete – thank you for participating in our online group show to (from top left): Zixu Wang, Rosina Rosinski, Molly Thomson, Tomica Radulovic, Christine Lee, Gemma Carson, Brennan Wojtyla, Silvia Giordani, Katya Granova, Heike Weber, Frijke Coumans, Graziela Guardino, Roberto Rivadeneira, Mattia Noal und John Brendan Guinan.

Check out our last 15 posts further down or on Instagram to find out everything about ART MATTERS 6 and the 15 artists/artworks we selected via our latest open call!

And make sure to come back later when we declare the two winners of our online competition. It is finals day today and we reveal:

- at 5pm the artist who will be rewarded an online solo show

- at 6pm the artist who will be invited to participate in a group show in our gallery in Cologne.

About:

Again for the 6th ART MATTERS round, it was not easy for us to choose only 15 artists for our online exhibition out of the many great submissions we received in response to our 6th Open Artist Call. But it definitely was a great pleasure to discover and get to know so many great artists! There is so much remarkable art out there, but we cannot show it all in our gallery. The ART MATTERS series allows us to present many artistic positions from all over the world to a wider online audience twice a year for a little more than 2 weeks.

Many thanks to all of you who follow this project, some of you for 6 issues by now, and many thanks also to – most of all – all the participating artists, especially to our TOP 15 and the 45 Honourable Mentions (there are still some to be featured today!).

We found it particularly remarkable this time that more female artists than usual applied. That there was even more international participation, especially from Eastern but also Northern and increasingly Southern European countries. There were also many more applicants than usual from Asia, North and South America and Australia and even Africa. What pleased us most, however, was that finally more figurative artists applied, as abstraction has always been predominant at ART MATTERS. All this is reflected in the selection of our TOP 15, which is more eclectic than ever before.

The works are available through our gallery: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

PS: Our next ART MATTERS Open Call will take place around March/April 2023 – more details by then!

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ART MATTERS 5

Online Group Exhibition

1st Winner
Vittorio Bianchi

(group exhibition TRIALOGUE – Delicate Strength January-February 2023)

2nd Winner
Arran Rahimian

(online solo exhibition TIME November 2022-January 2023)

09 – 24/04/2022 ... more >

Following our 5th Open Artist Call, we launch our new ART MATTERS 5 online group exhibition on Saturday 9 April at 6pm CET. From all the applications received, we have selected 15 finalists, who will be presented with their submitted artworks on our website, Instagram and Facebook, one after the other until 23 April. Every day at 6pm, a new name and artwork will be unveiled so that the exhibition slowly comes together as a whole. The presentation of our Top 15 is rounded off by "Honourable Mentions" in our daily Instagram stories, in which we acknowledge the works of a selected number of artists who just missed the final cut (45, to be exact, posted in our Instagram stories from 10 to 24 April, 2 per day and between noon and 6pm).

On Sunday 24 November at 5 and 6pm, we will announce for the first time two winners of our online competition: One will receive a solo online exhibition, the other will be invited to participate in a group exhibition in our gallery space in Cologne.

We invite you to visit ART MATTERS 5 regularly here on our website, Instagram and Facebook.

About our ART MATTERS series:
Just like with our first four open artist call projects in April and November 2020 and again in April and November 2021, we were aware how versatile and eclectic this fourth online exhibition could be. But it was precisely the idea of an open call that appealed to us: to invite artists from the most diverse directions to apply and submit their work. From this multitude of perspectives and positions, we look forward to get an exhibition that shows a field of tension but also a symbiotic dialogue between the individual artworks. An exhibition that matches the direction and philosophy of the gallery, but also brings something new to our programme.

You can check out our first four ART MATTERS shows further down or in our exhibition archive.

PS: Our next open call will take place in March/April 2022…

The 15 Finalists:

Sunday 24 April: Finals Day 3/3 - VITTORIO BIANCHI

Congratulations to Vittorio Bianchi: The Italian artist from Milan is the second of our two ART MATTERS 5 winners today and will soon be presented with a selection of his works in a group exhibition at our gallery in Cologne! More information on this coming soon.

Of course, it is difficult to choose a winner or - as in this case - two winners from a large number of beautiful artists who applied through an Open Call. It is not a question of better or worse. Rather, it is about a feeling. As previously described with Arran Rahimian, we feel a strong connection with Vittorio Bianchi's work and believe it fits well into our gallery programme! One of our favourites since the work was submitted due to its inherent textile and also sculptural aspects, we already have a very nice project in mind that we will realise with the artist as soon as possible. We look forward to the collaboration and are excited to see what develops!

Winner 2/2: Vittorio Bianchi

R #6, 2019
polyurethane, nylon, Capaver glass fabric
119 x 83,5 cm

The work is available through our gallery: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

About Vittorio Bianchi ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Excerpt from a text by Domenico de Chirico, curator, Milan, 2019:

Vittorio Bianchi's work focuses primarily upon one element, which can be defined more than anything as a gesture, or that of laceration. The two-dimensional nature of the materials used by Bianchi is slavishly called into question by interventions that create absences and therefore open passages to other possible dimensions, underlining their fragility and at the same time the radical elegance and preciousness of what is torn. In fact, the fabrics used by the artist in his works highlight dedicated research ranging from Taiwanese silk to Italian lampas through monochromatic textures and elaborate prints.

His artistic research therefore also extends to the study of multiculturalism with a strong reference to the historicity of the treated materials whose processing underlines the echo of the time.

Vittorio Bianchi

1982 born in Busto Arsizio (Varese), IT
lives and works in Milan, IT

www.vittoriobianchi.net
@vtrbnch

Biography

Vittorio Bianchi was born in Busto Arsizio (Varese) in 1982. After earning a bachelor of Pharmacy degree in Parma (Italy), he moved to Milan where he started to collaborate with the performance artist Francesca Lolli. In 2014 he was nominated as a finalist for the Fondazione Henraux Prize and he got a note for the Celeste Prize Award. In 2019 he was selected for VIR Viafarini residency and invited to participate in Panorama #03 exhibition at Galería Fran Reus in Palma de Mallorca. His work was featured in Hystery, Issue 14, launched at Art Basel Miami in Dec 2019. He is the 3rd classified of the latest edition of Prisma Art Prize, winning the ArtRights and Artuu awards and the participation in an exhibition in 2023 at Contemporary Cluster (Palazzo Brancaccio, Rome).

Selected Exhibitions

- ART MATTERS 5, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (online), Apr - May 2022

- BIENVENUE Art Fair, Paris, group show in the booth of StudyForArtPlatform, Stockholm

- Panorama #03, group show, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca, Dec 2019 - March 2020.

- VIR residency group show, Viafarini, Milan, Dec 2019.

- VIR residency group show, Viafarini, Milan, Jul 2019

- Vetrina, solo show, BPM bank, Pietrasanta, Apr - May 2018.

Sunday 24 April: Finals Day 2/3 - ARRAN RAHIMIAN

Congratulations to Arran Rahimian: The young artist, Edinburgh-based artist is the first of our two ART MATTERS 5 winners today and will soon be featured with a selection of his paintings in a solo online exhibition on our website and social media channels! More info on this soon.

We feel a strong connection with the artist's work and believe it will fit in well with our gallery programme and also be beautifully communicable as an online exhibition. We look forward to the collaboration and are excited to see where this will take us!

Winner 1/2: Arran Rahimian

46 Hours, 2022
oil on canvas
76 x 70 cm (framed)

The work is available through our gallery: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

About Arran Rahimian ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

I consider the outdoors to be an extension to my studio; it plays a significant role in my work. My practice is conducted spontaneously and intuitively through walking. I am continually intrigued by the natural elements that surround me as their movement and presence inspire me.

As an Artist, I am excited by the unpredictability and rawness of creating a painting. I do not plan my works, nor have a preconceived idea of how they will look.

Arran Rahimian

1991 born
lives and works in Edinburgh, GB

www.arranrahimian.com
@arran.rahimian

Education

2011-14
- BA Honours in Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art

2010-11
- Foundation in Art and Design, Leith School of Art

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021
- 'COLLECTIONS // PAGES', Anthropologie, Edinburgh
- 'LAST HAND', Bianca Bova Gallery, Chicago
- 'PAGE', Alessandro Stein, Los Angeles

2019
- 'R O L I G E', Nordic Living, Edinburgh

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022
- 'ART MATTERS 5', Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (virtual show)

2021
- 'MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY', Curated by Alessandro Stein (virtual show)
- 'OPEN CALL WINNERS', Delphian gallery, Unit 1 Gallery, London
- 'PAGES', Galleri Kai, Copenhagen
- 'PUZZLE', Roman Sviridov, Milan

2020
- 'DEFINE A LINE', Curated by Alessandro Stein (virtual show)
- 'TO ALL OUR ABSENT DIALOUGES', Warbling Collective, London

2017
- 'OUTLOOK', &Gallery, Edinburgh

2015
- 'STILL', Patriothall Gallery, Edinbrugh
- 'Affordable Art Fair', Battersea, London

2014
- 'Its just a quick walk to the future from here', Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
- 'Bryant & Keeling Prize', One Church Street Gallery, London
- The Manchester Contemporary, Old Granada Studios, Manchester
- 'STILL' Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh
- Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show, Edinburgh
- RSA Opens Exhibitions, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2013
- ECA @ RCA exhibition, Royal College of Art, London
- Rue Villars, Aix en Provence, France
- New Word Alive (NWA) Conference, Pestalyn, Wales

2012
- Clarendon House Space, Clarendon House, George Street, Edinburgh
- Best of British, Notting Hill Mayfest, St John's Church, London

Selected Artist Talks and Workshops

2019
- CAPTURING COLOUR, Anthropologie, Edinburgh

2018
- COLOUR AND MOVEMENT, Anthropologie, Edinburgh

2016
- My Practice, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

2013
- In Your Hands, Aix en Provence, France
- Inside the mind of an artist, Prestalyn, Wales

Artist Residencies

2014-15
- Artist in resident at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh

2013
- New Word Alive, Prestalyn, Wales

Publications

2021
- i-on, Edinburgh
- APART JOURNAL, Iceland

2019
- Home and Interiors, Scotland
- PLAZA INTERIORS, Sweden

Sunday 24 April: Finals Day 1/3 - the TOP 15

TOP 15

Our Top 15 is complete – thank you for participating in our online group show to (in order of their daily posts): Stephen Wozniak, Bianca Barandun, Stephen Whatcott, Max Geisler, Mika Natri, Elliott Mickleburgh, Arran Rahimian, Tomoko Konae, Alejandro Javaloyas, James OKeefe, Paulus Maassen, Johannes Steininger, Vittorio Bianchi, Jonathan Ducrest and last but not least Johan Van Oeckel.

Check out our last 15 posts further down or on Instagram to find out everything about ART MATTERS 5 and the 15 artists/artworks we selected via our latest open call!

And make sure to come back later when we, Galerie Biesenbach as the jury of ART MATTERS 5, declare for the first time not one but two winners of our online competition. It is finals day today and we reveal:

- at 5pm the artist who will be reward an online solo show

- at 6pm the artist who will be invited to participate in a group show in our gallery in Cologne.

About:

Again for the 5th ART MATTERS round, it was not easy for us to choose only 15 artists for our online exhibition out of the many great submissions we received in response to our 5th Open Artist Call. But it definitely was a great pleasure to discover and get to know so many great artists! There is so much remarkable art out there, but we cannot show it all in our gallery. The ART MATTERS series allows us to present many artistic positions from all over the world to a wider online audience twice a year for a little more than 2 weeks.

Many thanks to all of you who follow this project, some of you for 5 issues by now, and many thanks also to – most of all – all the participating artists, especially to our Top 15 and the 45 Honourable Mentions (still some to be featured today).

PS: Our next ART MATTERS Open Call will take place around October/November 2022 – more details by then!

The works are available through our gallery: Click here to get to our online shop.
Personal contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635

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ART MATTERS 4

Online Group Exhibition

Winner
Alireza Elahi

(group show Where the Rubber Meets the Road June-August 2022)

17/10 – 31/10/2021 ... more >

Following our 4th Open Artist Call, we have launched our new ART MATTERS 4 online group exhibition on Sunday 17 October at 6pm. From all the applications received, we have selected 15 finalists, who will be presented with their submitted artworks on our website, Instagram and Facebook, one after the other until 31 October. Every day at 6pm, a new name and artwork will be unveiled so that the exhibition slowly comes together as a whole. The presentation of our Top 15 is rounded off by "Honourable Mentions" in our daily Instagram stories, in which we acknowledge the works of a selected number of artists who just missed the final cut (90, to be exact, posted in our Instagram stories from 18 October to 1 November, 6 per day and between noon and 6pm).

On Monday 1 November at 6pm, the winner of our online competition will be announced: He or she will be invited to participate in an exhibition in our gallery space in Cologne in 2022.

We invite you to visit ART MATTERS 4 regularly here on our website, Instagram and Facebook.

About our ART MATTERS series:
Just like with our first three open artist call projects in April and November 2020 and again in April 2021, we were aware how versatile and eclectic this fourth online exhibition could be. But it was precisely the idea of an open call that appealed to us: to invite artists from the most diverse directions to apply and submit their work. From this multitude of perspectives and positions, we look forward to get an exhibition that shows a field of tension but also a symbiotic dialogue between the individual artworks. An exhibition that matches the direction and philosophy of the gallery, but also brings something new to our programme.

You can check out our first three ART MATTERS shows further down or in our exhibition archive.

PS: Our next open call will take place in March/April 2022…

Monday 1 November: Finals Day

ART MATTERS 4: And the winner is... Alireza Elahi (*1991, lives and works Tehran) – congratulations! We are pleased to include an Iranian artist in our programme for the first time and to present his expressive abstract paintings in one of our upcoming gallery group exhibitions.

Also for the 4th ART MATTERS round, it was not easy for us to choose only 15 artists for our online exhibition out of the many great submissions we received in our 4th Open Artist Call, and then also to choose a single winner.... It was definitely fun to discover and get to know so many great artistic positions! There is so much remarkable art out there, we can't show it all in our gallery. But the ART MATTERS series allows us to present many artistic positions from all over the world to a wider audience online twice a year for a little more than 2 weeks.

Many thanks to all of you who follow this project, some of you for 4 issues by now, and many thanks also – most of all – to all participating artists, especially to our Top 15, namely (in order of their daily posts: Alireza Elahi, Katja Pál, Bislacchi, Amir Chasson, Mariejon de Jong-Buijs, Aaron Kaveh Ossia, Molly Thomson, René Korten, Stephen Wozniak, Peter Evans, Eva Dijkstra, Beverly Rautenberg, Alan Greenberg, Clemens Gritl and last but not least Sharon Haward.

But in the end there can only be one and we have chosen the young Iranian artist Alireza Elahi as the ART MATTERS 4 winner in an extremely close decision. With his submitted work "untitled" (2020, acrylic and spray paint on primed canvas, 150 x 100 cm) and his artist statement as well as his overall artistic approach/work, he completely convinced us and we are happy to invite him to a thematic group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne in 2022. We already have a great project in mind and are sure that Alireza's work will be a wonderful fit for us – more information will follow soon!

To find out more about ART MATTERS 4, Alireza Elahi and the work of the other 14 finalists, check out our Instagram feed from the last two weeks or our website posts below.

The featured works are still available for purchase until 14 November – just email us for more information or visit our online shop!

And last but not least: Our next ART MATTERS Open Call will take place in March/April 2022 – more details will follow then!

17 – 31 October: the 15 Finalists

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ART MATTERS 3

Online Group Exhibition

Winner
Stephen Burke

(group show Where the Rubber Meets the Road June-August 2022)

11/04 – 25/04/2021 ... more >

To curate our new online group exhibition ART MATTERS 3, we have been looking for international visual artists via open call from 14-28 March, 2021. From all applications received, our independent jury, the Reclaim Collective, finally selected 15.

On a daily basis at 6pm CET sharp from Sunday, 11 April onwards, all 15 finalists will be presented one by one with their submitted work exclusively on galerie-biesenbach.de and our Instagram/Facebook accounts. The presentation of our Top 15 is rounded off by "Honourable Mentions" in our daily Instagram stories, in which we acknowledge the works of a selected number of artists who just missed the final cut (90, to be exact, posted in our Instagram stories from 12 to 26 April, 6 per day and between noon and 6pm).

On Monday, 29 April at 6pm the winner of our competition will be announced: He or she will be invited to participate in an exhibition in 2021 in our gallery rooms in Cologne.

We warmly invite you to regularly follow our ART MATTERS 3 group show here on our website, Instagram and Facebook.

About our ART MATTERS series:
Just like with our first two open artist call projects in April and November 2020, we were aware how versatile and eclectic this third online exhibition could be – especially since we decided to have it curated by an independent jury. But it was precisely the idea of an open call that appealed to us: to invite artists from the most diverse directions to apply and submit their work. From this multitude of perspectives and positions, we look forward to get an exhibition that shows a field of tension but also a symbiotic dialogue between the individual artworks. An exhibition that matches the direction and philosophy of the gallery, but also brings something new to our programme.

You can check out our first two ART MATTERS shows further down or in our exhibition archive.

PS: Our next open call will take place in September/October 2021…

Finals Day

Group photo with 15 finalists, including 1 winner - please scroll down and read on to find out who won our 3rd ART MATTERS online competition!

First and foremost though, we'd like to thank our judges – the guys from Reclaim Collective – for collaborating with us on this project and putting together such a beautiful, eclectic exhibition! We know how hard it is to choose from all the submissions we received as part of our open call, to select just 15 artists and then also to narrow it down to one winner... But it was definitely an immense pleasure for us to discover so many great artists or to get to know them better!

Thanks also to all of you who have been following this project, some of you since we started it a year ago, and thanks – most of all – to all the artists involved, especially our Top 15, namely: Patia Fa, Isabella Convertino, Jeroen Molenaar, Dorota Goczal, PUTPUT, Vera Saldivar de Lira, Paul Snell, Chris Tille, Stephen Burke, Oliver Cain, Susanne Stähli, Daniel Morata Gressel, Rafael Raposo Pires, Maaike Kramer and last but not least Francisco Valenca Vaz.

But in the end, there can only be one and our jury chose Stephen Burke (*1991 in Dublin, lives and works in Dublin) as the ART MATTERS 3 winner in an extremely close decision. Congratulations! With his submitted work Bump from 2021 (spray paint, emulsion and chewing gum on tactile tiles, steel frame, 60 x 45 x 3 cm) and his statement as well as his overall artistic approach/body of work, he not only convinced our jury and we are happy to invite him to participate in an thematic group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne in 2022. We already have a great project in mind – more information to follow soon!

To find out more about ART MATTERS 3, Stephen Burke and the work of the other 14 finalists, check out our Instagram feed from the last two weeks or our website posts below.

The featured works are available for purchase until 15 May - just email us for more information or visit our online shop!

And finally: Our next ART MATTERS Open Call will take place in September/October 2021 – more details coming soon!

Winner ART MATTERS 3: Stephen Burke

STEPHEN BURKE
Bump, 2021
spray paint, emulsion and chewing gum on tactile tiles, steel frame
60 x 45 x 3 cm

About Stephen Burke ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Stephen's ambitions are to highlight a new visual understanding within our built environment and to scrutinize the cultural divide between street and gallery. Stephen’s most recent body of work examines various methods of communication found in public space, in this case – focusing on 'tactile tiles' and sprayed construction markings.
Tactile tiles are a system of textured ground surfaces found on stairs, footpaths and train stations among other places. These tiles signal messages or warnings to visually impaired pedestrians and are interpreted through their spacing and texture. For example, the bright yellow textured pavement found at train stations signifies a stop code, as there is a steep drop ahead. Stephen was drawn to use this material due to its high level of visual texture and to show how we communicate through touch, a sensitivity which has been lost in recent times.
In 1976, construction workers accidentally cut into a petroleum pipe beneath the pavement in California, leading to a large explosion. This accident was the catalyst for 'the systemization of critical colour coded utility markings'. These markings are deciphered by construction workers daily and denote various meanings. For example: Blue marks signal water pipes and yellow signifies gas, whereas red marks show electricity cables. These sprayed markings exemplify another kind of communication, one concerned with language. With this new body of work, Burke forms testimonials to these two visual languages by creating tactile images which are imbued with the aura of the street.

Stephen Burke

1991 born in Dublin
lives and works in Dublin

stephenburkeart.com

Stephen is a visual artist from Dublin, Ireland with a background in painting (MA, GSA, 2018) and printmaking (B.A NCAD, 2016). He received a first class honour's degree from the GSA. Burke co-authored the book 'Buff', which investigates graffiti removal as an artistic process. 'Buff' contributed greatly to the academic discourse on this topic and was published with an accompanying exhibition at The Library Project in 2017. 'Buff' was later translated into a documentary in collaboration with Irish film maker, Sean Clarke, and was debuted at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) in 2019 with the support of both Atelier Maser Gallery and Offset Festival. Later that year, Stephen completed a residency at Atelier Maser and displayed the resulting works at a solo show within the gallery. Most recently, he completed a six month residency in Berlin with Urban Nation. During this time he further developed the project 'Post-Vandalism', which is accessible on social media (@post_vandalism) and explores both the academics and aesthetics of graffiti related contemporary art and fosters support from a wide international community. Stephen’s time in Berlin culminated with an exhibition where he presented six new paintings. Burke is currently working towards the release of his new book titled ‘Post-vandalism’.

Education

- MLitt in Fine Art Painting (hons), Glasgow School of Art (GSA), Glasgow, UK, 2017-18
- BA in Print-making (hons), National College of Art & Design (NCAD), Dublin, IRE, 2013-16

Solo Exhibitions

- Utility, Atelier Maser, Dublin, IRE, June 2019

Selected Exhibitions

- ART MATTERS 3, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, DE (online), April 2021
- Quarantine Show, Malagacha Gallery, Strasbourg, FR, June 2020
- Fresh Air, 90 Bulowstrasse, Berlin, DE, March 2020
- Vue, RHA, Dublin, IRE, Nov 2019
- Graduate Degree Show, The Tontine building, Glasgow, UK, Sept 2018
- Chroma, Dornoch St Project Space, Glasgow, UK, June 2018
- Close By, 39 Trongate, Glasgow, UK, April 2018
- No Safe Haven, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK, March 2018
- Bua, Mount Florida Gallery & Studios, Glasgow, UK, March 2018
- Skarrach, Crown Point Studios, Glasgow, UK, February 2018
- Collision, The Law Society of Ireland, Dublin, IRE, November 2017
- Buff, The Library Project, Dublin, IRE, August 2017
- New Release, SO Fine Art, Dublin, IRE, June 2017
- D24: A User’s Manual, Rua Red, Dublin, IRE, May 2017
- The Tara Launch, The Tara Building, Dublin, IRE, April 2017
- Nua, The Fumbally Exchange, Dublin, IRE, February 2017
- Young 3, SO Fine art, Dublin, IRE, February 2017
- Inplace, 12 Tara St, Dublin, IRE, September 2016
- The End, Soma Waterford, Waterford, IRE, September 2016
- Dia Dhuit, The Mart, Dublin, IRE, August 2016
- NCAD Graduate Showcase, Dublin, IRE, June 2016
- Shia LaBeouf, The Box, NCAD, Dublin, IRE, October 2015
- Haptic Press, Pallas Project Studios, Dublin, IRE, May 2015
- South, South Studios, Dublin, IRE, April 2015
- Half, The Mart, Dublin, IRE, January 2015

Press

- Review of ‘Utility’ at Atelier Maser by Eli Cazdu, Urban Art Paris, Nov 2020 - https://urbanart-paris.fr/2020/11/de-leffacage-des-graffitis-a-labstraction/
- Review of ‘U-Bahn’ body of work by Dr Kea Wienand, Urban Nation, Aug 2020 - https://www.stiftung-berliner-leben.de/stephen-burke-u-bahnen-2020/
- Atelier Maser ‘Utility’ exhibition catalogue. June 2019 - Stephen Burke Exhibition Catalogue by ateliermaser - issuu
- Hendricks, The Irish Times, May 2019 - https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/ireland/inside-dublin-s-hendrick-hotel-big-on-street-art-small-on-space-1.3905663
- Iverna, April 2019 - https://www.iverna.ie/interview/stephen-burke
- Yngspc, Oct 2018 - https://www.yngspc.com/artists/2018/10/stephen-burke/
- SO Fine Art Editions, New Release, June 2017 - http://www.sofinearteditions.com/new-release/
- Two friends document the art of graffiti removal, Gary Ibbotson, The Dublin Inquirer, May 2017 - https://www.dublininquirer.com/2017/05/10/two-friends-document-the-art-of-graffiti-removal/
- SO Fine Art Editions, Young III: A New Generation, Feb 2017 - http://www.sofinearteditions.com/young-iii-a-new-generation/
- What Lies Beneath, Niall MacMonagle, The Sunday Inpedendent, July 2016 - http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/what-lies-beneath-smithfield-by-stephen-burke-34887582.html
- HeadStuff, Marie Varley, July 2016 - http://www.headstuff.org/2016/07/ncad-graduate-design-show/
- Bare Magazine, Artist Spotlight, March 2016 - https://issuu.com/lemou/docs/bare_magazine_issuu

Residencies

- Residency at Urban Nation X Stiftung Berliner Leben, Berlin, DE, October - March 2020
- Residency at Atelier Maser, Dublin, IRE, June 2019
- Appointed Artist Curator, Creative Campus, RUA RED, Dublin, IRE, January - May 2017

Outreach & Demonstrations

- Founder – Post-vandalism social media archive, Jan 2018 – Present
- Mosaic Workshop, Urban Nation, Berlin, DE, December 2019
- Artist Talk - ‘Buff’, RHA, Dublin, IRE, June 2019
- Placement at Open/Close Dundee, UK, March 2018
- Founding member of The Glasgow School of Art's Self publishing Society, Glasgow, UK - Nov 2017
- Curator - D24: A Users Manual, Rua Red, Dublin, IRE, Feb - May 2017
- Screen Print Workshop - Deanswrath and Killinarden Community Colleges, Rua Red, Dublin, IRE, May 2017
- Co-Director - Tallaght Young Filmakers, Rua Red, Dublin, IRE, May 2017
- Artist Talk - 'The Art of Graffiti Removal', Rua Red, Dublin, IRE, May 2017
- Mono & Lino Print Workshop - Tallaght Community Arts Centre, Dublin, IRE, May 2015

Publications

- Bua - Co-published with Lou Rowland under Bua, 2018
- Buff - Project Co-manager, Published by 1815, 2017
- 1815 Magazine Issue 7 - Contributing Artist, Published by 1815, 2017
- IN PLACE Photobook - Contributing Artist, 2016
- Buff precursor zine - co-published with Fiachra Corcoran, 2016

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ART MATTERS 2

Online Group Exhibition

Winner
Patrizia Kränzlein

(group show PoP – Painting on Paper September-October 2021)

29/11 – 14/12/2020 ... more >

To curate our new virtual group exhibition ART MATTERS 2, we have been looking for international visual artists via open call from 8-22 November. According to our specifications, 1 artwork with a net sales price of up to 2.000,- € could be submitted per artist. From all applications received, we finally selected 15.

On a daily basis at 6pm CET sharp from Sunday, 29/11 onwards, all 15 finalists will be presented one by one with their submitted work exclusively on galerie-biesenbach.de and our Instagram/Facebook accounts. The presentation of our Top 15 is rounded off by "Honourable Mentions" in our daily Instagram stories, in which we acknowledge the works of a selected number of artists who just missed the final cut.

On Monday, 14 December at 6pm the winner of our competition will be announced: He or she will be invited to participate in an exhibition in 2021 in our gallery rooms in Cologne.

We warmly invite you to regularly follow our ART MATTERS 2 group show here on our website, Instagram and Facebook.

About our ART MATTERS series:
Just like with our first open artist call project last April, we were aware how versatile and eclectic this second online exhibition could be. But it was precisely the idea of an open call that appealed to us: to invite artists from the most diverse directions to apply and submit their work. From this multitude of perspectives and positions, we curated an exhibition that shows a field of tension but also a symbiotic dialogue between the individual artworks. An exhibition that matches the direction and philosophy of the gallery, but also brings something new to our programme.

Monday, 14 December

To curate our online group exhibition ART MATTERS 2, we launched our second Open Call on 8 November with the aim of finding 15 new artists. Until yesterday, we presented the finalists and their submitted works individually every day at 6pm for a fortnight.

Tonight, we are pleased to announce Patrizia Kränzlein (*1987 in Stuttgart, lives and works in Stuttgart) as the winner of our competition and invite her to participate in a thematic group exhibition at our gallery in Cologne in summer 2021. Her sensitive formal language and approach to the medium of paper have excited us and bring new, interesting aspects to our gallery programme.

It was extremely difficult for us to pick out just one from so many remarkable artistic positions. Therefore, we would like to thank all the artists who submitted their works. It was a great pleasure for us to discover these great artists or to get to know them better!

To learn more about Patrizia Kränzlein and the works of the other 14 finalists – in order of their daily presentation: Birte Horn, Armin Mühsam, Laura Jane Scott, Tonneke Sengers, Viktoria Körösi, Sali Muller, Paul Corvers, Stuart Fineman, Katja Pál, Ute Krafft, Evelyn Snoek, Andrew Clausen, Alex De Bruycker & Yoella Razili – please scroll down or check out our Instagram feed.

The works presented are available for purchase – just email at art@galerie-biesenbach.com for more information – and our ART MATTERS 2 viewing room will be available to visit here from 6pm tomorrow.

Our next Art Matters Open Call will take place in late March/early April 2021 – more details coming soon!

PATRIZIA KRÄNZLEIN

untitled, 2020
linoleum ink and graphite on paper (mounted on board), 70 x 50 cm

880,- €
plus 16% German VAT + shipping

The work is available through our gallery – contact for further information: art@galerie-biesenbach.com or +49-174-4909635.

About Patrizia Kränzlein ... more >

ARTIST STATEMENT

Patrizia Kränzlein's drawings, a combination of graphite and linoleum paint on paper, are mostly reduced to black, white and grey tones. During production, the paint is applied directly to the paper with a roller, thus the roller functions as a drawing instrument.

The works are developed from variable geometric basic forms and integrated segmentally into the picture surface. They show pictorial spaces that are configured by lines, surfaces, shades and depth spaces. In doing so, the artist always seeks the way into the depths, with a demand for the valid, towards the essential.

Patrizia Kränzlein

1987 born in Stuttgart
lives and works in Stuttgart

Education

2008-2017
- Studium Malerei und Glasgestaltung
- Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
2008-2015
- Studiengang Kunsterziehung
2015-2017
- Studiengang Bildende Kunst
2017
- Diplom Bildende Kunst

Awards/Prizes

2020
- Preis für junge Kunst 2019/2020, Galerie Kunsthöfle e.V., Bad Cannstatt
2016
- Preisträgerin des Young Art Award <33, Galerie Art Forum Ute Barth, Zürich, Schweiz
2012
- Akademiepreis für Projektarbeit (Glas und Glück)

Exhibitions (Selection)

2020
- ART MATTERS 2, Galerie Biesenbach, Köln (online)
- Zimmerecken, Museum Villa Flora, Winterthur, Schweiz
- Linie – Fläche – Raum: Harmonie mit Maß und Gesetz, Kunsthaus Fischer, Stuttgart
- Contemporary meets masters, Galerie Art Forum Ute Barth, Zürich, Schweiz
- Raumgefüge, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg (S)
- Preis für junge Kunst 2019/2020, Galerie Kunsthöfle e.V. Bad Cannstatt
2019
- Ereignis Freihandzeichnung 2019, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig (C)
- Raumkonfiguration, Galerie der Stiftung S BC pro-arte, Biberach (S)
- Raumzeichnungen, Galerie Art Forum Ute Barth, Zürich, Schweiz (S)
- aufgeSCHLOSSen 2019, junge Kunst aus Baden-Württemberg, KISS-Untergröningen
- Donaueschinger Regionale 2019, Donauhallen, Donaueschingen (C)
2018
- Künstler für den Frieden, Mediathèque, Montbeliard, Frankreich
- Das kleine FormArt, Galerie Interart, Stuttgart
- Spot on 3D, Galerie Art Forum Ute Barth, Zürich, Schweiz
2017
- Blick Fang 2017, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren
- 2xK 2xT, Galerie Art Forum Ute Barth, Zürich, Schweiz
- Schwarz auf Weiß, Galerie Kunsthöfle e.V., Stadtarchiv Stuttgart (S)
- Diplomausstellung, Projektraum AKKU, Stuttgart
- Raumkonfiguration, Galerie Wendelinskapelle, Marbach am Neckar (S)
2016
- Preisträgerin des Young Art Award <33, Galerie Art Forum Ute Barth, Zürich, Schweiz
- Thomas went to the market- a take away show., Kunstverein Geislingen (Steige)
- Neujahrsempfang 2016, Landratsamt Ludwigsburg
2015
- In Stein, auf Leinwand, auf Papier, Galerie Dorn, Stuttgart
- This moment is all there is, Kunstzentrum Karlskaserne, Ludwigsburg

S: Solo Show
C: Catalogue

GROUP PHOTO
Final 15

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ART MATTERS 1

Online Group Exhibition

Winner
Jussi Niva

(group show Sculptural.Painting. January-April 2021)

12/04 – 26/04/2020 ... more >

ART MATTERS

12/04 – 26/04/2020

1 new artist daily 6pm!

Out of the corona/lockdown situation in March/April – exhibition postponed, gallery closed to the public – our first virtual group exhibition ART MATTERS was created, which could only be viewed online at www.galerie-biesenbach.de and our Instagram and Facebook accounts. Unusual times, new ways!

With an open call launched on Instagram, we spent two weeks looking for new artists and finally selected 15 participants for our group exhibition.

We knew how eclectic this Online Only exhibition could be. But it was precisely the idea of the Open Call that appealed to us: to invite artists from the most diverse backgrounds to apply and submit their work. From this multitude of perspectives and positions, we curated an exhibition that shows a field of tension but also a symbiotic dialogue between the individual artists and artworks. An exhibition that fits the direction and philosophy of the gallery, but which has also brought something new to our programme.

From Sunday, 12 April onwards, one artist was presented with the submitted work every day at 6 pm. On 26 April the winner of our competition was announced and invited to participate in a later exhibition in our gallery space in Cologne. Our choice was Jussi Niva, who will present a selection of his works in the group exhibition "Sculptural.Painting." in January/February 2021.

With works by: Christina Augustesen, Carlos Balbás, Bram Braam, Michael Craik, Alex De Bruycker, Viktoria Körösi, Ute Krafft, Vincent Lo Brutto, Daniel Müller-Jansen, Jussi Niva, PUTPUT, Beverly Rautenberg, Michael Samuels, Jon Thomas & Michael Weißköppel

GROUP PHOTO
Final 15

SAVE THE DATE

ART MATTERS 12: Our next Call for Artists Worldwide will open on Friday 15 November 2024 at noon CET here on this webpage!

We are looking for artists for an upcoming group exhibition in our gallery in Cologne as well as online!

All further information on the application will be announced here on Friday 15 November at noon CET!!

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ART MATTERS 11 – SPECIAL SUMMER EDITION

Online Group Exhibition: "Animalistic"

FINALE: Monday 19 August

CHEUK YIU LO – WINNER "ART MATTERS 11"

CHEUK YIU LO

Cheuk Yiu Lo

OUR TOP 9 AT ONE GLANCE:

THE 9 FINALISTS:

Sunday 18 August: Sali Muller – Finalist 9 of 9

SALI MULLER

Sali Muller

Saturday 17 August: Camille Theodet – Finalist 8 of 9

CAMILLE THEODET

Camille Theodet

Friday 16 August: Pascal Wild – Finalist 7 of 9

PASCAL WILD

Pascal Wild

Thursday 15 August: Cheuk Yiu Lo – Finalist 6 of 9

CHEUK YIU LO

Cheuk Yiu Lo

Wednesday 14 August: Anja Segermann – Finalist 5 of 9

ANJA SEGERMANN

Anja Segermann

Tuesday 13 August: Eunjung Suh – Finalist 4 of 9

EUNJUNG SUH

Eunjung Suh

Monday 12 August: Johannes Rave – Finalist 3 of 9

JOHANNES RAVE

Johannes Rave

Sunday 11 August: Björn Heyn – Finalist 2 of 9

BJÖRN HEYN

Björn Heyn

Saturday 10 August: Nathan Schönewolf – Finalist 1 of 9

NATHAN SCHÖNEWOLF

Nathan Schönewolf

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ART MATTERS 10

Online Group Exhibition

FINALE: Monday 15 April

HEIKE WEBER – WINNER "ART MATTERS 10"

HEIKE WEBER

Heike Weber

OUR TOP 9 AT ONE GLANCE:

THE 9 FINALISTS:

Sunday 14 April: Petra Schmidt – Finalist 9 of 9

PETRA SCHMIDT

Petra Schmidt

Saturday 13 April: Kirsi Kivivirta – Finalist 8 of 9

KIRSI KIVIVIRTA

Kirsi Kivivirta

Friday 12 April: Michael Francis Ryan – Finalist 7 of 9

MICHAEL FRANCIS RYAN

Michael Francis Ryan

Thursday 11 April: Nanou Dupuis – Finalist 6 of 9

NANOU DUPUIS

Nanou Dupuis

Wednesday 10 April: Azim F. Becker – Finalist 5 of 9

AZIM F. BECKER

Azim F. Becker

Tuesday 9 April: Amelia Nin – Finalist 4 of 9

AMELIA NIN

Amelia Nin

Monday 8 April: Heike Weber – Finalist 3 of 9

HEIKE WEBER

Heike Weber

Sunday 7 April: Clara Lemos – Finalist 2 of 9

CLARA LEMOS

Clara Lemos

Saturday 6 April: Anne Berlit – Finalist 1 of 9

ANNE BERLIT

Anne Berlit

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