Gisela Krohn

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Gisela Krohn

Gisela Krohn (born October 17, 1966 in Cologne ) is a German painter . She lives and works on Lake Starnberg in Tutzing and Berlin .

Life

From 1982 to 1984 she attended the technical college for design in Cologne. This was followed by an assistant stage design at the Theater im Bauturm with Andrew Hippe Davis and an internship in screen printing at the Engels gallery. In 1987 she moved to Berlin. After various assistants at the theater, including at the Hebbel Theater and the Theater am Ufer (Berlin), she trained as a theater painter at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin from 1991 to 1995 . Her work at the theater had a lasting impact on her later artistic career, especially in dealing with large formats and different painting techniques. Immediately afterwards she studied painting from 1995 to 2001 at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art , first with Werner Liebmann and then with Hanns Schimansky . In 2000 she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux . It was there that she created her large-format series über Alleen - one of the recurring motifs of her work. The exhibition: dans le jardin de mon ami was created in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and the École des Beaux-Arts . In 2001 she graduated from the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art.

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Krohn's central motifs are forests, avenues and large-format landscapes that move between abstraction and naturalism . The focus of Krohn's work lies in the artistic apprehension of nature. In her work, Krohn is not concerned with depicting external nature as it presents itself in the sensory perception. The nature that Krohn captures in her pictures is rather a predominantly spiritual nature in which ideal principles such as form and shape dominate. Beyond the usual separation of spirit and nature or culture and nature, her work with this approach is about working out the intrinsic value of nature through an increased form of seeing. The nature seen in this way shows mystical-utopian features, but without negating the given nature in its reality. “My art is emotional and conceptual,” says the artist herself. Her work is characterized by a complex interplay of light and shadow that creates moods and rhythms. The painting technique is oil on canvas or ink, watercolor on paper. Krohn made various trips to the Victoria Falls in Africa. In 2012 she exhibited her works about the waterfalls in the DSV-Kunstkontor of the German Sparkasse Association in Stuttgart. Krohn also worked on various cinema films and as a theater painter for Robert Wilson's Leonce and Lena at the Berliner Ensemble as a set painter for the film Rembrandt , directed by Charles Matton .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2019: Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich: "Lichtblick", exhibition duration 9 May to 29 June 2019
  • 2018: From Fraunberg Art Gallery, Düsseldorf: "The End of the Night"
  • 2017: Ev. Academy Tutzing: "Blue Land and Big City Noise" Presentation of nature and art
  • 2017: Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne
  • 2016: Gallery Villa Köppe, Berlin: "Forest as an emotional landscape"
  • 2015: Galerie Frey, Salzburg, Austria: "Reflections"
  • 2015: Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne: "Dowsing in silence"
  • 2014: Galerie Frey, Salzburg, Austria
  • 2014: Art Affair Gallery, Regensburg
  • 2013: ARD capital studio, Berlin
  • 2013: Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich: “Open secret”, solo exhibition with catalog
  • 2012: Hubertus Melsheimer Kunsthandel, Cologne: "100 Years of Landscape"
  • 2012: DSV-Kunstkontor Stuttgart: "My memories are like water", pictures from the Victoria Fall, Zimbabwe Africa
  • 2009: Art Office Berlin-Friedrichshain: "Behind the Liebnitzsee"
  • 2009: Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich: "Rasende Stille"
  • 2006: Audi Forum Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018: Galerie Rother Winter, Wiesbaden: "Inspiration Nature"
  • 2017: Galerie Westphal, Berlin: "Berlin by the Sea"
  • 2017: Galerie Biesenbach: ChangefiveX "Nature"
  • 2016: Galerie Madesta, Regensburg: "Scenery of nature"
  • 2015: Yongsan War Memorial Museum, Seoul, Korea, GA (until March 20, 2016)
  • 2014: House Beda, Bitburg: “Mythos Forest”, contemporary and historical interpretations on the subject of forests
  • 2014: Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne.
  • 2011: XII International Workshop of Visual Arts and Artists, Meeting in Marianowo, Poland, Hubertus Melsheimer Kunsthandel, Cologne, Art Karlsruhe
  • 2007: La Biennale du Prieuré, Belgium, Art Cologne
  • 2007: Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich: "Deceptive Silence"
  • 2006: Hubertus Melsheimer Kunsthandel, Cologne
  • 2006: Karlsruhe Art Fair

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "There is no final picture", by Corinna Daniels, in: Die Welt, May 26, 2006: online
  2. ↑ From Fraunberg Art Gallery, Düsseldorf “The End of the Night”, exhibition duration March 8 to April 20, 2018, online
  3. ↑ Galerie Rother Winter, Wiesbaden: "Inspiration Natur", exhibition duration June 23 to September 1, 2018, with works by Armin Baumgarten, Zigi Ben-Haim, Annette Besgen, Peter Haff, Katrin Kampmann, Gisela Krohn, Christopher Lehmpfuhl, Romana Menze -Kuhn, Eva Ohlow, Igor Oleinikov, Werner Pokorny, Gerhard Richter, Reiner Seliger, Miriam Vlaming, Bernd Zimmer, Susanne Zuehlke. on-line
personal data
SURNAME Krohn, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne