Elke Zauner

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Elke Zauner (born April 7, 1972 in Altötting ) is a German painter .

life and work

Elke Zauner trained as a church painter from 1991 to 1994 in Ampfing in Upper Bavaria . From 1995 to 2002 she studied figurative painting , drawing and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a master class student with Hans Baschang . In 2002 she graduated with a diploma. Since 1997 she has been working as a freelance artist.

Scholarships led her to longer work stays in 2001 to Iceland (Reykjavík), 2003 to Vienna and 2006 to Bamberg . She also had several exhibitions there. In 2008 she was awarded the Rome Prize, which is linked to a one-year scholarship at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo in Rome . The scholarship was concluded with an exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin .

In the beginning, the subjects of Zauner's artistic work mostly revolved around her Bavarian homeland, among other things she created several series of animal motifs. This resulted in both large-format and more abstract pictures on canvas as well as small collages on paper. In addition, she also deals with room installations and working with assembly foam. Within the individual works, she uses a variety of creative means, color overlays alternate with thin glazes or closed color areas.

In her work, Zauner deals in particular with “spatial conditions and light, with form and color”. In doing so, she uses color and color gradations in order to “suggest spatiality and then break it up again and leave the viewer in a kind of visual confusion”. Upon closer inspection, elements emerge that z. B. consist of strong color contrasts (mostly complementary colors) that “disguise where a room leads. The viewer thus has the opportunity to gradually open up the image space for himself and to discover new dimensions and thus to free himself from the state of confusion. "

Influenced by her stay in the Villa Massimo, she changed her artistic style, "now light and architecture" are the focus of her pictures. The animal motifs, which previously dominated her work in several series, have now completely disappeared; also earlier pop art reminiscences.

Zauner lives and works in Bamberg and Rome.

Awards and grants

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1999 Kunstverein Schrobenhausen (with Luise Ramsauer)
  • 2000 INS House of Art Academy, Munich
  • 2001 Drive: Painting by order , gallery in the town hall, Munich; Gratia Plena , Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
  • 2003 Look here ..., aspects gallery in Gasteig, Munich
  • 2004 Heilig-Scheinheilig , Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf
  • 2005 Familiär & organic , AKH gallery of the Künstlerhaus Vienna ; Do you know the mountains, Städtische Galerie Traunstein
  • 2006 offspring, Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf; Are there any mermaids? , Villa Concordia , Bamberg
  • 2007 Kunstverein Passau (scholarship holder of the Villa Concordia)
  • 2008 scholarship from Villa Massimo, Rome

Group exhibitions

  • 2004 Ebbe und Glut (with Rolf Laven), Künstlerhauspassage Vienna
  • 2005 Space-Time (with Gregor Passens), Galerie White 8, Villach
  • 2007 Saints Today - An art course through five Erlangen churches , arsprototo gallery, Erlangen
  • 2008 Open-studios , Villa Massimo, Rome; Temple University, Rome; Reggio Babele, Palazzo Casotti, Reggio Emilia; Welcome , American Academy Rome; Finale , Villa Massimo, Rome
  • 2009 scholarship holders of the Deutsche Akademie Rome, Villa Massimo im Gropiusbau, Berlin

literature

  • Gregor-fitting, Elke Zauner: snow pictures . Maximiliansforum Munich, Munich 2002.
  • Gregor Passens: A parasite showing. Barco-galería, Buenos Aires. Enrique Banfi, Jorge Macchi, Elke Zauner, Esteban Alvarez, Jana Hiller, Tamar Stuby, Rita Bünting, Fischli / Weiss and others ; Revolver, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 978-3-937577-22-7 . (English; exhibition catalog)
  • Robère Scholz, Elke Zauner; Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia (Ed. :): Elke Zauner. Are there any mermaids? arthellweg verlag, Soest 2006, ISBN 978-3-938966-05-1 . (Text in German and English; catalog, retrospective)
  • Elke Zauner: SPQR - New Paintings from Rome , The Green Box, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-908175-42-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German art from Rome in Berlin ( Memento of October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , report on the website of the German Federal Government of February 20, 2009 (accessed on March 25, 2009).
  2. ^ Report of the German Academy of Rome ( Memento from September 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Information about the exhibition Are there actually meerm girls? from 2006 in the international artist house Villa Concordia in Bamberg, on the online database www.kunst-und-kultur.de (accessed on March 25, 2009).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kunst-und-kultur.de
  4. ↑ Scholarship for a Franconian painter in Rome  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nn-online.de   , Article in the Nürnberger Nachrichten of February 19, 2009 (accessed March 25, 2009).
personal data
SURNAME Zauner, Elke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Altötting