Birgit Decressin

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Birgit Decressin (born September 13, 1966 in Bocholt ) is a German painter .

Life

Decressin initially studied graphics at the Krefeld University of Applied Sciences from 1987 to 1990. In 1990 she moved to the Dusseldorf Art Academy in the tray free art painting and joined the class of Gotthard Graubner at. Then from 1994 to 1998 Decressin studied painting and free graphics in the class of AR Penck and was appointed a master class student in 1996. From 1999 to 2000, Decressin studied art history at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and completed his studies with a completed undergraduate degree. Since 1996 Decressin has lived as a freelance artist with a studio in Düsseldorf . Her works can be seen in numerous exhibitions. In 2000 she moved to Grevenbroich and opened her own gallery next to her studio. She has lived and worked in Isselburg / Werth since 2008 . In 2014, Decressin installed a permanent exhibition of her work in a former feed store where she lived.

Art academy in Duesseldorf-Altstadt, from the northwest

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Birgit Decressin's painting is multi-layered and comprises several groups of works with which the artist has repeatedly dealt with since the beginning of her work. There are the gatherings of people, places drawn with oil paint, small portraits, life-size portraits of women, still lifes , small and large-format ones. Landscapes, animal drawings and objects in clay are also created. Decressin understands painting and drawing as appropriation of the world. The occasion for painting or drawing is always reality, an event, a visual experience. The pictures of squares with crowds are representations of specific places that Decressin visits and appropriates by drawing. It is not the location with its architecture that is shown, but rather the people are the focus of interest. In these pictures Decressin concentrates on people, how they move, hurry, walk slowly, stand in groups, occupy space in any form, so to speak. Temporality becomes important here, the duration or the fleeting appearance of the figures. The place as a place remains undefined in these large pictures drawn with oil paint, is only indicated by a few lines, if at all. Spatiality is only visible through the figure constellation. With the other pictures, the still lifes and portraits, it is the experience of light and color that fascinates the artist. The focus is on painting . The respective content is withdrawn, but always remains recognizable. The color, its wealth of nuances, the composition, the diverse types of brushwork and the application of paint become a visual experience that captivates the viewer, lets him step closer to the picture or brings him back to distance. Often the content of the picture and the spatial perception only become possible through distance. But also in these pictures, in which the subjects of still life and portrait are treated as important continuities in painting and which also arise in the knowledge and respect for the achievements of the great masters of previous centuries, it is about temporality, about the fleetingness of existence. Some of the pictures only appear as a hint of something that was there, others are imposing in its present tense. Outlined in color, worked out in countless color sequences, dabbed, dashed, blurred, set, broadly brushed, fruits appear energetically in still lifes, people in portraits. The depth of knowing, experiencing the world, in this case through seeing, is explored in the work of the painter Birgit Decressin.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1996: Art Museum in the Tonhalle, “Works on Paper”, Düsseldorf
  • 1997: Kunsthaus Mettmann, "Painting", Mettmann
  • 2002: Museum of the City of Bergkamen, "Painting", Bergkamen
  • 2004: Kunstverein Siegburg, “Light-Appearance”, Siegburg
  • 2004 and 2005: Galerie Ralf Plein, “Painting”, Düsseldorf
  • 2006: Museum Villa Erckens, "Painting", Grevenbroich
  • 2006: Museum Kunstraum Neuss, "Painting", Neuss
  • 2006–2008: Galerie Decressin, “Painting, Graphics, Objects”, Grevenbroich
  • 2010: Ute Freyer Gallery, “2 master students from AR Penck”, Bocholt
  • 2011: Medicine and Pharmacy Museum Rhede, "Painting, Graphics, Objects", Rhede
  • since 2014: Former feed storage facility Werth, "Permanent exhibition of the artistic work of Birgit Decressin", Isselburg / Werth

Group exhibitions

  • 1988: Gallery of the Krefeld University of Applied Sciences, "Photographic Works", Krefeld
  • 1989: Municipal Gallery Bocholt, "Euregio Art Circle - German and Dutch Artists", Bocholt
  • 1994: Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, "selected drawings by students of the Düsseldorf Art Academy", Dortmund
  • 1995: Kö-Galerie Düsseldorf, "Students of the Düsseldorf Art Academy", Düsseldorf
  • 1996: Kunstkreis, Orangery-Schloss Benrath, "Painting", Düsseldorf
  • 1997: Kunstpalast Düsseldorf , “Class AR Penck in the large art exhibition”, Düsseldorf
  • 1997: Atelier Luisenstrasse, "Class AR Penck", Düsseldorf
  • 1998: Gallery of the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris , “Painting”, Paris
  • 1999: Galerie éof Paris, “Carte Blanche”, Paris
  • 1999: L´ Atelier sur I` Autoroute, "Exhibition project by artists from Paris and Düsseldorf - 45 peintres", Paris
  • 2002: Airport Gallery, "international contemporary art", Frankfurt am Main
  • 2004: Airport Gallery, "Olympia, Art and Greece", Frankfurt am Main
  • 2016: 1. Bocholt Culture Fair, “Free Cultural Commune, Image, Sculpture, Word, Music”, Bocholt

Funding (selection)

  • 1995: Acquisition of the charcoal drawing “Movement Study” by the Düsseldorf Art Academy
  • 1998: Half-year Paris scholarship at Galerie Cité Internationale des Arts Paris , awarded by the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Ministry of Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2006: Purchase of the 5 graphics "Horses in Landscape" by the Museum Kunstraum Neuss

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicole Stein: “A little has a lot of effect” Double exhibition at the Kunsthaus Mettmann, Birgit Decressin and Anette Marks, Rheinische Post May 27, 1997
  2. ↑ Jürgen Röhrig: "Pictures that stimulate and challenge" about the exhibition "Light Appearances" by Birgit Decressin, in the Church + Art series , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger No. 105 - May 5, 2004
  3. ↑ Klaus Sebastian: “Woman looking relaxed in the mirror”, Penck master student Birgit Decressin exhibits in the Schadow-Arkaden , Rheinische Post May 12, 2004
  4. ↑ Exhibition on Birgit Decressin “Composition of color and light” in the medicine and pharmacy museum Rhede
  5. ↑ Sarah Eul: "Where people scurry over places", about the permanent exhibition by Birgit Decressin in Isselburg / Werth, NRZ September 7, 2016. Online at https://www.derwesten.de/staedte/emmerich/wertherin- shows-ihre -werke-im-alten-futterlager-id12170146.html
  6. ↑ Claudia Feld: “Werther artist makes food storage a permanent exhibition”, about Birgit Decressin's permanent exhibition in Isselburg / Werth, Bocholter-Borkener Volksblatt May 14, 2014. Online at http://www.bbv-net.de/lokales/isselburg_artikel , -Werther-Kuenstlerin-macht-Futterlager-zur-Permanentausstellung-_arid, 356842.html
personal data
SURNAME Decressin, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bocholt