Ilana Levitan

Ilana Lewitan (* 1961 in Munich ) is a German painter and object artist. She lives and works in Munich. Ilana Lewitan prefers to use acrylic paints that best suit her multi-layered way of working. Also means the photograph , the digital imaging and Collage are media that they integrated into the painting. The boundaries between figurative and abstract painting are fluid. She is a representative of the new aesthetic avant-garde .

Life

Ilana Lewitan was born in Munich. There she studied interior design and at the University of Architecture . From 1988 she worked in these professions in New York , first at Richard Meier Architects & Partners, then at Dakota Jackson , but also as a freelance illustrator . She then studied painting with Hans Daucher and Markus Lüpertz . Back in Munich, she was able to make a name for herself with several prizes in architecture and design . She has been a freelance artist and member of the Art25 artist group since 1995 and has been a lecturer in Geras, Austria , since 2012 . In 2013 Ilana Lewitan was selected at Art Karlsruhe and showed some of her new works. Of her solo exhibitions , the one in the Kunsthalle Altdorf / Ettenheim with Hubert Burda Media (2007), the one in the Ephrat Gallery, Tel Aviv (2010) and the FOR ART GALLERY (2011) located in the M50 gallery district in Shanghai are particularly noteworthy; of the group exhibitions: the art campaign for dOCUMENTA X in Kassel (1998), the exhibitions in the Museum of Modern Arts in Astana , Kazakhstan (2007), in the art gallery whiteBOX Munich (2009), in the Pasinger factory (2006), in the gallery Noah (2011) in Augsburg, the accompanying exhibition to the 27th Jewish Culture Days in Munich (2013), as well as in the Monsieur Gallery, Paris (2014). The artist is married to the psychologist and book author Louis Lewitan and has two daughters.

Quotes

The cubes and boxes, especially when they are compared with Lewitan's paintings on canvas, which were created at the same time and which meanwhile completely dispense with photographic elements, can be said to have a beautiful independence: the new genre that uses photographic and digital means to create painterly effects comes, has grown up, it continues to develop according to its own rules. The boxes and cubes have not only found their own technique, but also their own world of motifs, the connections to canvas painting have been severed. Lewitan's picture boxes also stand out from the average of what is currently going on elsewhere in the world in the area between painting and object art.

Dr. Gottfried Knapp , art historian and author

Ilana Lewitan brings photography and painterly gestures to a synthesis. She uses photographs of her family, but her painting dominates them. Here, too, the merging of photographic images and painterly expression is being painted over and cropped. However, it is also a merging of past, present and future, real trauma and visionary utopia.

Matthias Mühling , curator for international contemporary art, Lenbachhaus, Munich

Since 2011 the artist has turned to a different technique: oil on canvas. This opens up a different, slower pace in the production of her works. Instead of quick, intuitive overpainting, she condenses the color gestures that used to be applied centrifugally, violently and impasto into manifestos of calm, calming statements. In doing so, she maintains the basic characteristics of her art of telling stories and evoking memories. Even if it is often fascinatingly puzzling, in her messages to her viewers she takes a stand on current political and social issues.

Elmar Zorn , art historian and curator, Munich - from an article in ARTPROFIL, issue No. 93, July 2012

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2018 Evangelical City Academy, Munich
• 2017 Gallery at the airport, Terminal 2, Munich
• 2016 Gallery creative mind. Im Westend, Munich
• 2015 Riehen / Basel Memorial
• 2014 IAM - International Arts Management, Munich
• 2014 Galerie Wolkonsky, Munich
• 2013 Bruce Lurie Gallery , Los Angeles
• 2012 Gasteig , Munich
• 2012 Clemensstr. 9, Salon for Culture and Communication , Munich
• 2012 Gallery / lehmweg33 , Hamburg
• 2012 Gallery Haleh , Berg
• 2011 For Art Gallery , M50 Art Community, Shanghai
• 2010 Ephrat Gallery , Tel Aviv
• 2007 Altdorf Art Gallery , Ettenheim ,
• 2003 Galerie Maendl-Lawrance, Munich
• 2003 Art Bar Hiscox , Munich
• 2002 Arte Galerie N, Munich

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2018 Galerie Noah, Augsburg
• 2018 Neumeister auction house, Munich
• 2018 State Representation of the Free State of Thuringia to the Federal Government, Berlin
• 2018 Munich Forum for Islam eV, Munich
• 2018 Art in Sacred Places, Graefelfing (near Munich)
• 2018 art fair ARTMUC, Munich
• 2018 Galerie Noah, Augsburg
• 2017 Art and Culture zu Hohenaschau eV, Aschau im Chiemgau
• 2015 Moses Mendelssohn Academy, Halberstadt
• 2015 Jewish Museum, Rendsburg
• 2015 Haleh Gallery, Berg am Starnberger See
• 2014 Art Club, Hamburg
• 2014 SUMMA Art Fair, Madrid
• 2014 Galerie Wolkonsky, Munich
• 2014 Art Safari, Art Fair, Bucharest (Romania)
• 2014 Monsieur Gallery, Paris
• 2013 SPSI Art Museum, Shanghai
• 2013 JNA Gallery at Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica (USA)
• 2013 Braun-Falco Gallery, Jewish Culture Days, Munich
• 2013 Saxon State Ministry of Justice and for Europe, Dresden
• 2013 Galerie Kunst und Handel, Graz
• 2013 Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Klaus Lea and Curatorial Partners, Karlsruhe
• 2012 Clemensstraße 9 - Salon for Art and Communication, Munich
• 2011 Brigitte Henninger Art, Munich
• 2011 Galerie Noah, Augsburg
• 2009 Kunsthalle Whitebox, Munich
• 2009 Artneuland Gallery, Berlin
• 2009 Brigitte Henninger Art Gallery, Munich
• 2009 Museum Kazakhstan, Art Forum Kulanshi, Astana (Kazakhstan)
• 2006 Pasinger factory, Munich,
• 2005 Galerie Maendl-Lawrance, Munich
• 2004 Galerie Maendl-Lawrance, Munich
• 2003 Gallery in Üblacker-Häusl, Munich
• 1997 art campaign for documenta X, Kassel

Publications

• Christa Sigg: “Behind the Horizon” Jüdische Allgemeine, April 26, 2018
• Susanne Graue: "Affenzirkus - Ilana Lewitan and her art" Blog Life is all about, March 10, 2018
• Alexandra González: "Contemporary History" Weltkunst, issue 121, 2016
• "Ilana Lewitan: Living in a Box" artla magazine, November 2013
• "Ilana Lewitan: cubes" catalog raisonné of the objects 2011–2012
• "Ilana Lewitan: A liberated, airy play with colors" ARTPROFIL, issue 93, July 2012
• "The Flip Side - Ilana Lewitan, artist of hidden truth and double meaning." The weekly Standard, April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30th
• "Ilana Lewitan (2007 - 2011)" catalog raisonné covering the years 2007–2011
• "Ilana Lewitan" Medicine + Art No. 4/2010 from November 1, 2010

Web links

• Homepage of Ilana Lewitan
• TV portrait by Bayerischer Rundfunk about the artist: "Life stories in color: The painter Ilana Lewitan" (29 minutes)
• TV report from RTL München Live about the art biotope Botanikum München with Ilana Lewitan (40 minutes)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Parkstadt Schwabing . Website of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
2. ↑ art25 artist overview . Website of the Artfield Botanical Center. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Altdorf Art Gallery . Website of the Kunsthalle Altdorf. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
4. ^ Artists . FOR ART GALLERY website. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
5. ↑ time sequences . Website of the joods historically museum. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
6. ^ Art offer website of Galerie Noah. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
7. ^ Jüdische Positions Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung, November 14, 2013. Accessed May 14, 2014.
8. ^ Jewish Culture Days Munich Website of the Jewish Culture Days. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
9. ↑ Artistes ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Monsieur Gallery. Retrieved May 14, 2014.  
10. ↑ Content of Art Profil 93 (PDF; 85 kB). Table of contents of issue 93 of the art magazine. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
11. ↑ Exhibitions ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Bruce Lurie Gallery website. Retrieved October 12, 2013.  
12. ↑ We love you . Haleh Gallery website. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
13. ^ Artists . FOR ART GALLERY website. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
14. ↑ Online version of the article . Retrieved May 30, 2018.
15. ↑ [1] . Retrieved February 5, 2019.
16. ↑ Online version of the article . Retrieved December 18, 2017.
17. ↑ PDF of the article, available on the artist's homepage  ( 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. (PDF; 255 kB). Retrieved December 18, 2017.  
18. ↑ Catalog of works as PDF, available on the artist's homepage ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.6 MB). Retrieved December 18, 2017. 
19. ↑ Contents of ARTPROFIL 93 (PDF; 85 kB). Table of contents of issue 93 of the art magazine. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
20. ↑ The Flip Side ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 12, 2013. 
21. ↑ Catalog of works as PDF, available on the artist's homepage ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.6 MB). Retrieved December 18, 2017 
22. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 260 kB). Medicine + Art website. Retrieved February 20, 2013.