Gisela Kleinlein

Gisela Kleinlein (* 1955 in Nuremberg ) is a visual artist and lives and works in Berlin .

She studied from 1976 to 1979 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and from 1979 to 1983 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There she became a master student of Erwin Heerich and received a three-year teaching position at this university in 1996. Since 1999 she has been professor for sculptural design at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal in the Industrial Design course .

Gisela Kleinlein is a member of the German Association of Artists .

Awards and grants

1985–1986: DAAD scholarship for the Netherlands
1987: Working grant from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn
1989: Villa Romana Prize, Florence; Catalog award from the Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation
1989: Sponsorship award for fine arts from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
1991: Märkisches scholarship for fine arts ; Sculpture Prize of the Hortenstiftung am Seestern, Düsseldorf

1985: Treibhaus III, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
1990: "Sculptural Events", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , "Rundum", Galerie Näke , Katharinenkloster Nürnberg (with Karsten Neumann , Bernd Klötzer and others)
1993: Gab Gysin Gallery, Zurich
1996: City Gallery Erlangen
1999: Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
2000: Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen
2000: Kunstverein Heidelberg
2002: " Defet - A Donation", New Museum Nuremberg
2003: Galerie Bob Gysin, Zurich
2005: Trisorio Gallery, Naples
2006: Von der Heydt-Museum , Kunsthalle Barmen , Wuppertal
2007: Kunstverein Ludwigsburg
2009: Galerie Seitz and Partner, Berlin