Hella Berent

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Hella Berent (born January 22, 1948 in Thedinghausen ) is a visual artist. She lives in Cologne , "but likes to expose herself to strangers" (Berent), so that her artistic work is characterized by longer and continuous stays abroad. A central role is played by the concept of space. In the state of unbound movement, shaped by freedom, it centers perception as a reflection of space. Light, movement and color are in the context of the familiar, reflect the recognition of sight.

Berent is versatile and does not commit to a specific category from the outset. The choice of the artistic medium also depends on the local circumstances. This is how room installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, artist books or poems are created.

life and work

After graduating from high school in Bremen , Hella Berent studied from 1968 to 1976 at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Kai Sudeck, KP Brehmer and Reiner Ruthenbeck and at the University of Hamburg . In 1977 the first long stay abroad took place in Italy. Further work trips took the artist a. a. to the USA, to India and again and again to the Orient (Egypt, Syria and Iran). In 1985 she received the Villa Massimo scholarship from the German Academy in Rome. Since 1998 Berent has been at the .ekwc in ´s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, where she conducts intensive studies of the blue glaze technique. In 2010 she was a guest at the Field Institute on the rocket station of the Insel Hombroich Foundation in Neuss. In the 1980s, the confrontation with the color black was predominant. Since the 1990s she has devoted herself to researching the color blue with great intensity . Her research into the origins of Egyptian blue, which she leads both in libraries and to different seas, is closely related to the practical production of blue glazed clay bricks, which are the basis of her sculptural work.

Awards and grants

Teaching assignments

  • 2008 guest lecturer at the Haute École d'Arts Appliqués, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2003 guest lecturer at the Haute École d'Arts Appliqués, MINIMALISMUS, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2002 visiting professorship DRAWING International Summer Academy for Visual Art, Salzburg, Austria
  • 2001 visiting professor at STEIN International Summer Academy for Visual Art, Salzburg, Austria
  • 2001 Workshop The Burnt Blue 6th Of October, University Cairo, Egypt
  • 1995 teaching position at the artist camp, The different perspectives in the work of women, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 1992 visiting professor, International Academy for Fine Arts and Design, Pentiment, Hamburg
  • 1991 guest lecturer at the Art Academy, Trondheim, Norway
  • 1991 guest lecturer at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg

Works in public collections and museums

  • Altonaer Museum, Hamburg
  • Artotheken in Bonn, Cologne, Munich, Oldenburg
  • Library in the ice, Antarctica
  • DB Bombay, India
  • DB South America
  • ekwc. 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
  • Art and Museum Library, City of Cologne
  • Bielefeld Art Gallery, Bielefeld
  • Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg
  • New Museum Weserburg, Bremen
  • Lenbach House, Munich
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • Regional Council Stuttgart
  • Collection of the Deutsche Bank
  • Wolfgang Hanck Collection, Neuss
  • Hoffmann Collection, Berlin
  • Manfred Klette Collection, Cologne
  • St. Agnes Church, Cologne
  • West LB, Düsseldorf

Working in public and private space (installation)

  • 2010 Ninety-six bricks , sculpture for the office, private collection, Hamburg
  • 2005 Watercolors on Walls , private space, Wangerooge
  • 2004 Fifty bricks , sculpture for the office, private collection, Hamburg
  • 2000 Have Sunk , mirror installation, Castel Del Monte, Naples, Italy
  • 1999 Greek Field , 80 heads by Antinoo, Cuma, Naples, Italy
  • 1999 Refugee's House , Red Brick, Bruneck, Italy
  • 1999 Bath of Diana , in the river Rienz, marble black / white, Bruneck, Italy
  • 1996 Pool Echo , book sculpture, metal box in the floor, private collection, Cologne
  • 1996 Time-Timelessness , Art and Architecture, Mirchandani Gallery, Bombay, India
  • 1995 Athanatos , stone installation in public space, Oldenburg
  • 1994 The Mirror oneness being beyond , book sculpture, metal box in the earth, Landeskulturzentrum Salzau
  • 1994 Athanatos , stone installation, Indian International Center, New Delhi, India

Publications (solo exhibitions)

  • 2009 Risk Of Color Hella Berent, Mariam Amini, Fariba Farghadani, Masoud Mousavizade, Shantia Zakerameli (with essays by Koos De Jong, Fergus Meiklejohn, Farnoosh Daneshpanah, Hella Berent) English and Farsi, Cologne, ed. Hella Berent and .ekwc 's-Hertogenbosch, NL
  • 2008 Hella Berent Blue Lagoon (with articles by Peter Seele and Hella Berent), Karun 2008 | 1 Cologne
  • 2005 Hella Berent BLUE - The tenderness of a matter (with articles by Ewald Gäßler , Sabine Isensee, Ulli Seegers, Hella Berent), Isensee Verlag Oldenburg
  • 2003 Caeruleus & Cerula The bluish & blue of the sky and the seas By Hella Berent (with 60 color illustrations, with text contributions by Sydney H. Aufrère, Hella Berent, Hans - Joachim Bieber, Koos de Jong, Rudolf zur Lippe, J. van Erkel / P.Paaschens, Bernd Pirrung, Gajus Plinius Secundus Major, Marcus Vitruvii Pollionis, Andrea Wach, Stefan Weidner and with an interview HB with Gamal Abboud), Darling Publications, Cologne
  • 2002 Hella Berent THE STONE THE ECHO OF HEAVEN (with text contributions by Ulli Seegers, Hella Berent Cologne) self-published, Cologne
  • 2002 Trilogia 7 a cura di Giorgio Bonomi. Ciussi - Berent - Corneli (including a text by Elmar Zorn). Petruzzi Editore, Perugia / Italy
  • 1997 Stone sculptures for Oldenburg (with essays by Ekkehard Seeber, Katja Gohe, Rudolf zur Lippe). Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg;
  • 1997 Cologne Sketches, 16th year, issue 2 (with a text by Ulli Seegers)
  • 1994 AARON 1st Floor - Black Meadow , ed. Galerie Erhard Klein, Bad Münstereifel (with articles by Carl-Friedrich Schröer, Ulli Seegers and Hella Berent)
  • 1993 ROM - Exile of Merriment , Karl Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld (with essays by Helmut Frielinghaus, Ursula Panhans-Bühler, Jo Schultheis and Hella Berent)
  • 1993 Fourteen stations , St. Agnes Church, Cologne (with contributions by Hans-Werner Bott and Hans-Ulrich Wiese)
  • 1993 33 steps, 33 stones (2 volumes), Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay / India (with articles by Michael Sukale and Hella Berent)
  • 1992 XXXXIV NERO , Galleria La Nuova Pesa, Rome / Italy (with articles by Mario de Candia and Patrizia Ferri)
  • 1990 Nervenland - texts, drawings, photographs (with Jo Schultheis), Verlag Michael Kellner, Hamburg (with articles by Jo Schultheis and Ulrich Dörrie)
  • 1988 lavori romani Dörrie Priess Galerie, Hamburg (with a text by Jo Schultheis, Italian edition also with a text by Cinzia Piccioni)
  • 1985 The ascent in the vicinity , Oldenburger Kunstverein, Verlag Michael Kellner, Hamburg (a text volume by Hella Berent with contributions by Helmut Frielinghaus, Hannes Hatje and Hilka Nordhausen)
  • 1985 The departure into the ambivalence of the eyes when looking at them , Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (with a text by Hanna Hohl and Hella Berent)
  • 1984 There is water in the lake ... , Dany Keller Galerie, Munich (with a text by Michael Krüger and Hella Berent)
  • 1983 upside down - emotional falls or the pit of the miraculous , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Kunstforum Maximilianstraße, Munich (with articles by Helmut Friedel, Christine Hoffmann, Christian Manfred Klette and Hella Berent)
  • 1980 Drawings, objects a strati, photos, films Künstlerhaus Hamburg (with articles by Gabriella Benecke, Chris Hoffmann, Wolfgang Woessner and Hella Berent)

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personal data
SURNAME Berent, Hella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Thedinghausen