Christiane Conrad

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Christiane Conrad (* 1949 in Gießen ) is a German painter who deals with monochrome painting .

Life

Christiane Conrad was born in Gießen in 1949. From 1984 to 1990 she studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 1990 she was recognized as a master class student by Walter Stöhrer . Christiane Conrad is a member of the German Association of Artists and lives and works in Berlin.

Artistic work

Into the outdoors - Pink , 2013, oil on canvas, 150 × 140 cm

In 1992 she decided to paint in monochrome because she wanted to concentrate entirely on the subject of color and its effect. She works with oil paints , which she mixes from several shades and applies to the canvas with a spatula instead of a brush.

The color is in their structure thickly applied and is applied by it in vertical bands of color on the screen, some of the filler bar extends beyond the surface.

With each layer she applies a new variant of the chosen color - up to ten layers in a single work. Both the different color strips and the different nuances of the color shade create a kind of flat relief on the canvas: Since these material edges form a relief, they are seen differently depending on the incidence of light and the point of view: the relief edge can be perceived as such, as Ridge, but just as this ridge can be so strongly marked by light or shadow that we perceive a line of light or a shadow line because it is strongly illuminated or darkened when the light falls at an angle. This enables a negative-positive change: the light drawing can turn into a shadow drawing, or, more radically, the elevation can become visible as a depression: then the ridges appear as cracks or breaks in the color surface.

On the one hand, the individual work - when looking at the total area - exudes a lot of calm due to the restriction to one color. On the other hand - in a detailed look at the surface of the respective picture - vibrations become visible that play with the phenomenon of perception and change constantly when viewed from different angles or different light and space conditions and thus creatively contradict the supposed calm.

The museum projects

Exhibition Mo-No-Chrom , Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin 2010, room view: The blue , light blue gray , 2010, each 150 × 140 cm, oil on canvas
The specific works series is a recurring campaign by the museum, to which other artists such as Ben Vautier , Werner Reiterer Ute Heuer and AK Dolven have made contributions. Conrad created a total of 18 small and 2 large formats as a reflection of the large-format works by the painter Icke Winzer and the sculptures by the sculptor Rachel Whiteread already on display there . To do this, she studied the works of the two artists in detail. Your decision to design your works in different shades of blue-gray is a reflection of the color tones in the works of Icke Winzer and Rachel Whiteread and the architecture of room 1.14. By concentrating on a single color with different nuances, the works seem like a kind of accentuation of the colors used by the two artists and form a kind of musical repetition and paraphrasing of what has been seen. The presence of the series for room 1.14 is both a dialogue and an independent group of works.
For the Mies von der Rohe Haus in Berlin, she designed a 7-part series in the colors of the light reflections from the garden, which are reflected on the walls. The first work in blue is a reference to the idyllic surroundings of the museum located on a lake. Christiane Conrad: I was looking for colors that reflect the transparency of the house. According to my observations, there is no real boundary between the interior and the garden. I'm interested in what happens in terms of color in the interior. On closer inspection, very light color nuances become visible on the white walls of the interior. The green of the small walnut tree on the terrace and the garden seem to create hardly visible pastel-colored reflections on the walls. For me this adds to the atmosphere of the house.
Exhibition Widerschein Angermuseum Erfurt, 2015, room view. Color field painting for The Valley of Cadore in the Italian Alps by Friedrich Nerly around 1836 (painting top center). Far left: Edward Theodore Compton , The Grossglockner with Pasterze , bottom center: Anselm Feuerbach , In the Alps of Trentino
  • 2015: Widerschein - The color field painter Christiane Conrad encounters the landscape art of the Angermuseum , Angermuseum , Erfurt, Germany
In the picture gallery of the Angermuseum in Erfurt there are mainly works by landscape painters such as Friedrich Nerly , Erich Heckel , Carl Hummel , Carl Schuch and Paul Baum . In her works specially created for the exhibition, Conrad resorted to the central color of these individual works and translated them into her monochrome painting. The director of the museum, Kai Uwe Schierz, explains the interaction of the two very different levels of art on the viewer: Stand in front of the monochrome field paintings, soak up the paint, get used to their sight. Then take two steps to the side and look at the Hummel picture: And? "You see the sky differently," says the director; the sky of Hummel. The green components on the left and the blue components on the right interact with Conrad's canvases.

Works in public collections

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2000: Christiane Conrad: Painting , Kunstraum Galerie im Turm, Berlin, Germany
  • 2002: Commissioned by the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum , Hagen, Germany
  • 2007: Christiane Conrad - Painting , Jochen Höltje Gallery, Tübingen, Germany
  • 2007: Christiane Conrad - Specific Works: Room 1.14 , State Museum Schwerin , Schwerin, Germany
  • 2008: Christiane Conrad - Painting , Feurstein Gallery, Current Art Room, Feldkirch, Austria
  • 2009: Christiane Conrad - Schilderijen , Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst , Netherlands
  • 2009: Christiane Conrad , Galerie nihil nisi, Berlin, Germany
  • 2009: Color spaces , Rotenfels Castle , Gaggenau, Germany
  • 2010: Christiane Conrad: Mo-No-Chrom , Mies van der Rohe House , Berlin, Germany
  • 2011: Christiane Conrad: drawing and painting , Galerie Peter Dittmar, Berlin, Germany
  • 2013: Christiane Conrad: New Works , Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2015: Widerschein - The color field painter Christiane Conrad meets the landscape art of the Angermuseum , Erfurt, Germany
  • 2017: Only the color counts , Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 2000: Accrochage , Mies van der Rohe House , Berlin, Germany
  • 2002: Color - A Life of its Own. Hungarian and international monochrome painting , Budapest Art Hall , Budapest, Hungary
  • 2003: Seeing Red – Contemporary Nonobjective Painting , works from the collection of the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Hunter College Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2004: The color got me II - new acquisitions of the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen ,
  • 2005: Christiane Conrad, painting - Thomas Brummett, photography , Museum Pfalzgalerie , Kaiserslautern, Germany
  • 2005: Christiane Conrad, A. Paola Neumann, Frank Piasta , Association for Current Art / Ruhrgebiet e. V., Oberhausen, Germany
  • 2007: Christiane Conrad and Matthias Lutzeyer , Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2009: Magic of color - impasto painting, color matter, color spaces , Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche , Osnabrück, Germany
  • 2009: Color concrete , Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
  • 2010: Three positions of current color painting , Kunstquartier Bethanien , Berlin, Germany
  • 2011: Color and Paint , Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam , Potsdam, Germany
  • 2013: 30 years of the Grauwinkel Collection , Vasarely Museum , Budapest, Hungary
  • 2013: Christiane Conrad, Edda Jachens, Jens Trimpin , Galerie Veronica Kautsch, Michelstadt, Germany
  • 2013: Exhibition of the nominees for the Perron Art Prize 2013 of the city , Frankenthal, Germany
  • 2014: Christiane Conrad - Eckhart Steinhauser , Galerie Julia Philippi, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2015: Thick application: Christiane Conrad and Matthias Lutzeyer , Galerie Veronica Kautsch, Michelstadt, Germany
  • 2015: Works on paper , Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2016: Christiane Conrad en Alexandra Roozen , Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst , Netherlands
  • 2016: Monochrom , Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, Germany
  • 2017: On the inequality of the similar in art , Galerie Appel, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2017: No Issue , Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam , Potsdam, Germany
  • 2017: Exhibition of the nominees for the 2017 Kahnweiler Prize Winner , Rockenhausen, Germany

literature

  • Michael Fehr; Sanford Wurmfeld (Ed.): Seeing Red. Non-representational painting and color theory: A documentation of the exhibition and the symposium 2003 Hunter Art Galleries & Hunter Art Department, New York . Salon, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-89770-194-6 .
  • Ariane Mensger, Elisabeth Voigtländer: Thomas Brummett - Photography. Christiane Conrad - painting . Ed .: Britta E. Buhlmann . mpk Museum Pfalzgalerie , Kaiserslautern 2005, ISBN 978-3-89422-133-1 (catalog for the exhibition Christiane Conrad, painting - Thomas Brummett, photographs in the Museum Pfalzgalerie).
  • Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche Osnabrück (ed.): Magic of color: Impasto painting, color bodies, color spaces . Rasch, Brahmsche 2009, ISBN 978-3-89946-124-4 .
  • Johannes Meinhardt, Christiane Conrad: mo-no-chrom . Ed .: Mies van der Rohe House. form + Zweck, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-935053-39-6 (catalog for the exhibition in the Mies van der Rohe House in Berlin).
  • Siegfried Grauwinkel, Matthias Bleyl: Grauwinkel Collection: Concrete Art 1982–2012 . Siegfried Grauwinkel, Kleinmachnow 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-041543-2 .
  • Günter Baumann: Christiane Conrad - Only the color counts. Booklet for the 2017 exhibition . Ed .: Edition Klaus Braun.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members. Letter C . In: kuenstlerbund.de. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Johannes Meinhardt: The proper names of color In: Publisher = Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche Osnabrück: Magic of color: Impasto painting, color bodies, color spaces . Rasch, Brahmsche 2009, ISBN 978-3-89946-124-4 , pp. 101-106 , here p. 103 .
  3. ↑ Susanne Fiedler: Specific works: Room 1.14 In: Mitteilungen des Museumsverband Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Volume 16, 2007, pp. 30–33
  4. ^ Johannes Meinhardt, Christiane Conrad: mo-no-chrom . Ed .: Mies van der Rohe House. form + Zweck, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-935053-39-6 , p. 48 (workshop report by Christiane Conrad).
  5. ↑ Lisa Berins: Field painting meets landscape art in the Erfurt Angermuseum. In: www.tlz.de (Thuringian newspaper). February 20, 2015, accessed January 29, 2018 .
  6. ^ The collection of the Osthaus Museum Hagen. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .
  7. ^ State Museum Schwerin: Collections. Paintings and sculptures. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .
  8. ^ MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art. The Antal ‒ Lusztig Collection. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .
  9. ^ Siegfried Grauwinkel. Art collection. In: https://macmorious.jimdo.com (Siegfried Grauwinkel website). Retrieved December 4, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Review - Past Exhibitions 1991-2016. In: www.kulturamt-friedrichshain-kreuzberg.de. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Christiane Conrad - Specific Works: Room 1.14. In: Schwerin-city.de. May 14, 2007, accessed January 24, 2018 .
  12. ^ Christiane Conrad. In: kunstaspekte.art. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  13. ^ Christiane Conrad at the Hein Elferink gallery. In: woestenledig.com (About Kunst en Cultuur in Drenthe en Daarbuiten). Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
  14. ^ Exhibition 'mo-no-chrom' by Christiane Conrad. In: Berliner Morgenpost . October 21, 2010, accessed January 18, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Mies van der Rohe House - previous exhibitions. In: www.berlin.de. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  16. ^ Christiane Conrad - painting and drawing. In: kunstaspekte.art. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  17. ^ Christiane Conrad - New Work. In: galerie-klaus-braun.de. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Reflection: The color field painter Christiane Conrad encounters the landscape art of the Angermuseum. In: www.erfurt.de. February 19, 2015, accessed January 18, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Birgit Kummer: Angermuseum in Erfurt is converting its picture gallery. Petersburg hanging with several rows of images is dissolved. Current exhibition shows pictures by Christiane Conrad. In: Thuringian General . February 20, 2015, accessed January 18, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Christiane Conrad - Only the color counts. (PDF, 426.34 KB) In: galerie-klaus-braun.de. 2017, accessed January 18, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Mies van der Rohe House - Accrochage. In: www.kunst-und-kultur.de. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Color - A Life of its Own. An exhibition of hungarian and international monochrome painting. In: www.mucsarnok.hu (Budapest Art Gallery). Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Seeing Red. In: kunstaspekte.art. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  24. ↑ The color got me II (not just red). In: kunstaspekte.art. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Thomas Brummet - Christiane Conrad. In: kunstaspekte.art. Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Thomas Brummett and Christiane Conrad. Photography, painting. Exhibition from April 23, 2005 to June 19, 2005. In: kunstportal-pfalz.de. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
  27. ↑ exhibition archive 2005. In: vfakr.de (. Association for Contemporary Art / Ruhr Association). Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
  28. ^ Christiane Conrad and Matthias Lutzeyer. In: www.galerie-klaus-braun.de. Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche: Magic of Color - Impasto painting (color matter, color bodies, color spaces). In: kulturpur.de. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Kunstverein Tiergarten - concrete color. In: kunstaspekte.art. Retrieved December 12, 2017 .
  31. ↑ Color and Paint - Feb 6, 2011-20. Mar 2011. In: kunstaspekte.art. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  32. ^ Christiane Conrad - biography. In: galerie-kautsch.de. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  33. ^ Perron art prize of the city of Frankenthal (Palatinate). (PDF, 5.45 MB) January 6, 2014, accessed December 4, 2017 .
  34. ↑ Review. In: galerie-julia-philippi. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  35. ^ Christiane Conrad - biography. In: galerie-kautsch.de. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  36. ↑ Works on paper. 16 artists - two works each. In: galerie-klaus-braun.de. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  37. ↑ Monochrome - Works by Fratteggiani Bianchi, Bonalumi, Fontana, Knoebel, Sims, Tollens, Voskuil and others. In: artsy.com. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  38. ^ Exhibition archive . Exhibition year 2017. On the inequality of the similar in art. Painting positions. In: galerie-appel.de. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  39. ↑ Not an issue. January 8–26. February 2017. Group exhibition. In: kunstverein-kunsthaus-potsdam.de. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  40. ↑ Kahnweiler Prize 2017. In: rockenhausen.de. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Conrad, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist of concrete art
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH to water