Frauke Beeck

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Frauke Beeck (* 1960 in Bremen ) is a German artist.

Life

education

Frauke Beeck studied art and biology at the University of Hanover from 1978 to 1984. She then took on a year-long teaching position in Edinburgh, Scotland. She lives and works in Bremen and Berlin.

activity

Frauke Beeck's artistic activity includes spray paintings, murals, the Wümme calendar, collages, installations, objects and the production of funbags. Her work takes up topics from pop culture and consumer society. Since 1996 the artistic exchange between Germany and China has played an increasingly important role in her work. She is increasingly involved as a curator for exhibition projects by Chinese artists in Germany.

Spray pictures: Frauke Beeck uses a spray technique specially developed by her for her spray pictures. She mainly uses transparent acrylic glass, which is processed from both sides, which creates the impression of space and depth. She works with stencils, whereby an abstraction of the represented forms is achieved. Both in terms of the choice of motifs and in terms of their formal language, Frauke Beeck's pictures from the last few years are based on the tradition of classic Pop Art . Clear, strong, bright colors, high-contrast color combinations and motifs from everyday life are characteristic of this. Her work is characterized by the mix of stylistic elements of street art and graffiti art on the one hand and the choice of traditional subjects borrowed from realistic painting on the other. By merging the established motifs of painting and street art, a unique, unconventional style is created. She often uses photographs as templates, but also images from books, magazines or video stills she shot herself. In various series, she turns to different thematic complexes, such as bamboo variations, shop window design, music concerts, landscapes, animal portraits, political events or travel impressions. In a series of images, the artist combines text and image by adding a brief train of thought or a comment under the sprayed image in addition and not always explanatory. These pictures appear like newspaper pictures with the accompanying caption. But here text and image are in an exciting, sometimes absurd relationship to one another.

Murals: In 2006, in collaboration with Tobias Kröger, a work on the wall at Heinrichstrasse 10 in Bremen was created as part of the Bremen program “Art in Public Space”. In 2007, Frauke Beeck realized the mural “America” in the foyer of the freight yard for the play “America” by the Bremen Theater, staged by Johann Kresnik based on the novel by Franz Kafka, which was performed in the Bremen freight yard.

Wümmekalender: Frauke Beeck has been designing the Wümmekalender since 1994, which mainly consists of pictures of the Wümme region and has been published since 1974. In recent years the calendar has been dedicated to a specific topic, such as B. "Greetings from the province" (2014), "From Wümme to Huangpu" (2013), "Bird's Eye View" (2012) or "Watercourses" (2011). Over the years, various artistic techniques have been used, from pencil drawings to watercolors to mixed media - various reproduction techniques have been used in this context.

Funbags: Bags of candy or chips from all over the world are recycled into small plastic bags. The funbags are sold in several galleries and museums and have been presented by them at art fairs in Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Innsbruck and Karlsruhe since 2004.

Artist exchange with Chinese artists: Frauke Beeck has become increasingly active in the curatorial field in recent years, with a focus on the artistic exchange between Germany and China. Her first Chinese solo exhibition took place in 1998 at the Goethe-Institut Beijing. Exhibition projects were realized in Bremen and Beijing in 2000 and 2001. Bremen / Göttingen and Shenyang followed in 2006/2007. In 2013, Frauke Beeck exhibited in Beidaihe, China, as the first western female artist, at the invitation of the Chinese classical artist Mosheng Mei.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2018 Galerie Brandt Credo, Bremen "I love Art"
  • 2018 Gallery on the Black Sea, Bremen, "Of Trees and People"
  • 2015 Modern Museum Dalian (with S. Baumkötter, G. Kever)
  • 2013 Casaretto Gallery, Verden, "Between the Worlds"
  • 2013 Mosheng Mei Museum, Beidaihe, China
  • 2012 Municipal Gallery Zeven, "From Wümme to Huangpu"
  • 2012 Galerie Kunstmix, Bremen, "The Magic of Bremen"
  • 2011 Gallery 149, Bremerhaven, "In the Forest"
  • 2011 Art Association Achim, "Pop Shop"
  • 2008 Omnilab Gallery, Bremen
  • 2007 Sparkasse Bremen
  • 2006 Art Hall of the Academie Shenyang, China (with C. Jaxy, J.-F. Guiton)
  • 2006 Art Association Apex, Göttingen
  • 2006 Gallery 149, Bremerhaven, "100 small battles"
  • 2005 Galerie Herold, Bremen, "Unforgettable Moments"
  • 2001 Gallery 149, Bremerhaven
  • 2000 KLECKS Gallery, Herne
  • 2000 Teachers-University-Gallery, Beijing, China (with P. Angermann, B. Sassen)
  • 1998 Goethe Institute Beijing, China

Group exhibitions

  • 2018 Kunstverein Hannover , Hannover, digital autumn exhibition
  • 2018 GEDOK Gallery Hamburg, Hamburg, "Mail-ART on women's suffrage"
  • 2018 GEDOK Gallery Berlin, Berlin, "Time and Time Consciousness"
  • 2017 GEDOK Gallery Berlin, Berlin, What Heaven Permits "
  • 2016 Kunstverein Stade, Stade, "Faces"
  • 2010 Sparkasse Bremen, "Young Art Bremen"
  • 2010 Kunstraum Rotenburg, "Equal Opportunities - Stay on Course"
  • 2010 Galerie Schinken und Klötze, Berlin
  • 2010 Art Salon Franz Leuwer, Bremen, "Earth"
  • 2009 Art Spring Bremen
  • 2009 Women's Museum Bonn , Bonn
  • 2009 Art Cross Frankfurter Tor, Berlin
  • 2008 Kühn Gallery, Lilienthal, "Essen"
  • Sparkasse Bremen, "incognito"
  • 2007 Forwarding agent at the freight yard, Bremen, "The dark side"
  • 2007 Art Association Apex, Göttingen, "In Between"
  • 2007 Bremen theater in the freight yard, "America"
  • 2006 City Gallery Bremen , "The Unknown Masterpiece"
  • 2006 Gallery K, Nienburg "Freight goods"
  • 2005 Gallery Katharina Seifert, Hanover
  • 2004 Kühn Gallery, Berlin, "Sheep"
  • 2001 Kauno Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania

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personal data
SURNAME Beeck, Frauke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen