Kai Savelsberg

Kai Savelsberg (* 1975 in Aachen ) is a German painter and stage painter .

Live and act

After graduating from high school for design , Savelsberg completed an apprenticeship as a stage painter at the Theater Aachen from 1993 to 1996 . Since then he has been working as a freelance artist and until 2013 managed a studio in Monschau . He then moved to Aachen, where he runs his own studio on Rudolfstrasse and for a while ran the “Galerie Freitag 18:30” together with Robert Mertens. Together with his wife Mavi Garcia, he also runs the concept room “The Cell” on Lothringer Straße.

Savelsberg's works have been shown at more than 60 exhibitions at home and abroad, including in Belgium and the Netherlands as well as Finland, Sweden and the USA. In 2011 he received the art prize of the Johann Isaak von Gerning Foundation as part of the 4th Bad Homburg Autumn Salon . As a stage painter, he now appears less frequently, most recently in January 2017 for the musical "Exodus - freedom lies in you" by Clemens Amendt and Markus Kamps.

In addition, Savelsberg supplements his painterly works with poems , prose and aphorisms and has so far published three text volumes with numerous illustrations of his own . He also tries to link images and lyrical thoughts, for example in the concept exhibition “Silent Mail”, in which envelopes hanging from the ceiling with thoughts on art correspond with the postage stamp images painted on the light gray walls.

When creating his works of art, Savelsberg has so far not committed himself to a specific technique, but always creates new forms. In addition to standard painting on canvas or mixed techniques on nettle cloth , he prefers to work on wooden panels, doors or windows, old wallpaper and newspapers as well as old floor coverings and other found objects with ink, watercolors or oil paints. In many of his pictures he uses color to a limited extent and instead consciously uses numerous shades of gray. To this end, he covers some works with gauze or foil, which is intended to create a suggestive and mystical impression on the viewer.

Exhibitions (selection)

2016

• Gallery Evasion, Waremme (B)
• Stockholm International Antiques Fair, Galleri Hera (S)
• Ateneo de Málaga, (E)
• ART Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
• Gallery MECK-ART, Weisenheim am Sand (DE)
• Burgau Castle , Düren (DE)

2015

• Gallery Netuschil , Darmstadt (DE)
• ARTACASA, Amsterdam (NL)
• Norbertijnerkapel, Down To Art Gallery, Gent (B)
• Braunbehrens Gallery, Munich (DE)
• ART.FAIR , Cologne (DE)

2014

• Galleri Hera, Stockholm (S)
• Galleria Bronda, Helsinki (FIN)
• Galeria JAN, La Jolla (USA)

2013

• OSTRALE , Dresden (DE)
• Affordable Art Fair (AAF), Stockholm (S)
• Art Gent, Gent (B)

2012

• Gallery Jean-Marc Laik, Koblenz (DE)

2011

• Gallery St. Remy Liege, Liège (B)
• Down To Art Gallery, Ghent (B)
• Art Helsinki, Helsinki (FIN)

2009

• Gallery Epikur, Wuppertal (DE)

2008

• Gallery M. Jas, Breda (NL)

2007

• Lynda Beck Gallery, Antwerp (B)
• ARTACASA, Amsterdam (NL)

2006

• Galleri Hera, Stockholm (S)

2005

• Marc Van Meensel Gallery, Zelem Halen (B)
• Aaron Gallery, Washington DC (USA)

Publications

• Intermediate result ; Galerie Epikur, Wuppertal 2008, ISBN 978-3-925489-75-4
• Dialogue ; Poems, Galerie Epikur, Wuppertal 2008, ISBN 978-3-925489-74-7
• And from the beginning: pictures & texts ; Publishing house Robert Mertens, Aachen 2012; ISBN 978-3-943762-00-6

Web links

• Private homepage
• Artist portrait and exhibition directory on artfacts.net
• The worlds of the painter Kai Savelsberg , on eifelon.de from April 2, 2015
• Kai Savelsberg in the gallery Friday 6:30 p.m.
• Short portrait on the website of Galerie Jaen-Marc Laik
• Portrait on meck-art.de from June 15 to July 13, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kais Savelsberg - from Monschau to Aachen ; Message on köln-insight.tv
2. ↑ Homepage "The Cell"
3. ↑ 4th Bad Homburg Autumn Salon 2011 - Art Prize Winner , on the pages of Galerie Atlantis from September 10th to October 9th, 2011
4. ↑ Musical "Exodus" in Vossenack ( Memento of the original from March 16, 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.  
5. ↑ Tim Habicht: The works of the painting poet from Aachen , in Aachener Zeitung from October 10, 2012
6. ↑ Ingrid Peinhardt-Franke: "The Cell": Kai Savelsberg brings pictures and words together , in: Aachener Nachrichten of March 10, 2017
7. ^ Galleri Hera, Stockholm
8. ↑ Ateneo de Málaga
9. ^ ART Stuttgart
10. ↑ Kai Savelsberg at ARTACASA 2007, 2009, 20102, 2011, 2015 ( memento of the original from March 16, 2017 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.