Jürgen Kellig

Jürgen Kellig (born April 23, 1953 in Berlin ) is a visual artist and graphic designer living in Berlin .

Live and act

From 1976 to 1985 Jürgen Kellig traveled through Asia, Africa and North America, until in 1995 he devoted himself to painting, drawing and photography as a visual artist. He has received various work grants and project grants. The Berlin Senate Administration recognized Jürgen Kellig's work in 2005 with a studio grant. In the same year he opened his Atelier 399 in the Atelierhaus Sigmaringer1art in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.

In 2017 he received the Benninghaus Prize, the art prize of the Association of Berlin Artists .

In the work process, Jürgen Kellig observes and processes his works until the picture emerges from the structure of individual strokes, lines and flat points that grows in the artistic process. Overlays, fine ramifications, loose and close-knit networks are intended to point the way to micro and macrostructures in his pictures, which can be brought together as models and yet autonomously in ever new rows and clusters. In the drawing process he finds parallels and places them as traces on white surfaces. His preferred medium is mostly ink (brush or pen) on paper.

In spring 2013 his colleague, the visual artist Jutta Barth , founded the Berlin artist group connex_berlin . The founder, Siegrid Müller-Holtz , Annette Polzer and Jürgen Kellig belong to this group of artists . With painting, drawing, photography, assemblage and objects, the works of the group in the joint exhibitions encompass a broad spectrum of contemporary abstract art.

Exhibitions and works (excerpt from 2010)

2017: Galerie VBK, award winners exhibition, Benninghauspreis (E) (K)
2017: Galerie Artae, Leipzig, (scores) (E)
2016 ;: Municipal Gallery Berlin (3 days of art) (K)
2016: Kunstverein Burgwedel / Isernhagen (connex_berlin)
2016: ECC Toscana Halle, Berlin (Concrete-Dialogical, with Petra Tödter)
2016: Municipal Gallery Berlin (MIKADO) (K)
2015: Galerie Artae, Leipzig (internal structures, m. Bettina Lüdicke)
2015: Exhibeo-Galerie, Berlin (DIS ORDERS) (E)
2015: Change-Exchange-15, Korean Cultural Institute, Berlin (K)
2014: Kunstverein-Kulmbach (network network) (K)
2014: 2nd Biennale -Change-Exchange-14, Yang Pyong Museum, Seoul, South Korea (K)
2014: Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin (pair skating)
2014: Galerie Artae, Leipzig (chaos and order) (E)
2013: Contemporary Art Ruhr (CAR), Essen, with Galerie Artae, Leipzig
2013: Kommunale Galerie Berlin, artist fair (K)
2013: Cologne Paper Art, Cologne (K)
2012: Musée Archéologique (Salon d'Arts Actuels), Magny-en-Vexin, France
2012: Galerie Artae, Leipzig (JK- painting and drawing) (E)
2012: Galerie VBK (-free surfaces- m. Barth, Lüdicke, Müller-Holtz, Polzer, Ruoff)
2011: ABAKUS Gallery, Berlin (4 × drawings - m. A. Pehle, P.Schmidt, J.Schneider)
2011: Artae Gallery, Leipzig (- Deliberate entanglements- with Alexandra Karrasch)
2010: Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Opole, Poland (-Korrespondecja -) (K)
2010: Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle / Saale (-Mutterboden-)
2010: Great Art Exhibition Nuremberg (-Parts of the whole-)

Awards (excerpt)

2017: Benninghaus Prize - Art Prize of the Association of Berlin Artists
2005: Studio grant from the Senate Department of Culture, Berlin
1998/2000: Working scholarships from the Thuringian Summer Academy
1999: Project funding by the Käthe Dorsch Foundation (catalog)

Memberships and regular publications

since 1997: Member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin (BBK)
since 2007: Member of the VBK, Association of Berlin Artists (VBK), board member 2008–2012
since 2013: group connex_berlin
since 2016: Berliner Grafikkalender group www.berliner.grafikkalender.de

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME	Kellig, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German visual artist and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

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