Karla Woisnitza

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Karla Woisnitza (born August 16, 1952 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Karla Woisnitza is the daughter of an electrician and an accountant. After graduating from high school, she completed an internship in production design in Berlin and then an assistant stage design at the children's theater in Halle / Saale. Between 1973 and 1978 she studied stage and costume design at the Dresden University of Fine Arts and graduated in 1978. After studying externally in 1990, she received a diploma in painting and graphics in 1991 at the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Her most important teachers include Erika Stürmer-Alex and Günther Hornig.

Woisnitza has lived and worked as a freelance artist in Berlin since 1980. In 1992 she received the Marianne Werefkin Prize from the Association of Berlin Women Artists . From 1993 to 1995 she created seven large frescoes for the Rudolf Virchow University Hospital in Berlin.

In 1994 she was awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Academy of Arts (Berlin) . In 1996 she received a grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance in the USA. From 1998 to 2000 she created slogan frescoes for the Hoffnungskirche Rüdersdorf near Berlin and in 2002 a fresco in the parish hall of the Hoffnungskirche Rüdersdorf. Karla Woisnitza understands her work under the keyword "visual art". Since the beginning of her independent artistic activity, Woisnitza has been represented at over 300 exhibitions in galleries and museums in Germany and internationally, including mumok , Vienna (2009), Tate Modern , London (2012), Centro Cultural Correios , Rio de Janeiro (2014), Museum Barberini , Potsdam and Sprengel Museum , Hanover (2017).

Works by Woisnitza are in the Berlinische Gallery , Art Collection Archives of the Academy of Arts in Berlin , Berlin City Museum Foundation , Art Collection of the German Bundestag, art collection Willy-Brandt-Haus , Berlin State Library , Art Collections Chemnitz , Print Room and Art Fund Dresden, the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art (BLMK) , Angermuseum Erfurt and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington DC

Exhibitions (excerpt)

  • 1994 Painting, graphics, artist books on texts by the writer Elke Erb. With works by Angela Hampel, Christine Schlegel, Uta Schneider, Wolfgang Smy, Michael Voges, Anna Werkmeister and Karla Woisnitza. New art house Arenshoop.
  • 1994 great idea. The German Association of Artists in Mannheim, State Museum for Technology and Work in Mannheim
  • 2015 Welcome to Futuristan . Project room Axel Daniel Reinert
  • 2015 year-a-year award. Year-end exhibition on the subject of drawing, in cooperation with the Berliner Kabinett e. V. Gallery Old School Adlershof, Berlin
  • 2018 Super Nova. Old School Adlershof Gallery, Berlin
  • 2018 Medea picks up. Radical artists behind the iron curtain . Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden State Art Collections

literature

  • Anke Scharnhorst, Ingrid Kirschey-Feix :  Woisnitza, Karla . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • VdBK in cooperation with the Berlinische Galerie: Woisnitza, Karla . In: Käthe, Paula and all the rest , artist lexicon, Kupfergraben Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-411-9
  • Künstlerhaus Berlin, Edition 3: Karla Woisnitza. In: Temporary Art. A research, Verlag Ars Nicolai, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89479-036-9
  • Künstlerhaus Berlin, Edition 2: Karla Woisnitza. In: color gold. Decor. Metaphor. Symbol. Motivation for Painting Today, Verlag Ars Nikolai, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87584-450-5
  • Brigitte Rieger-Jähner: Karla Woisnitza. In: Catalog for the exhibition works on paper from the collection of the Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder), Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt (Oder) 2005, ISBN 3-937602-39-9
  • Eva-Maria Barkhofen on behalf of the Academy of Arts, Berlin: Karla Woisnitza. In: Architecture in the archive. The collection of the Akademie der Künste, DOM publishers, Berlin and Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86922-492-3 and ISBN 978-3-86922-572-2
  • Angelika Richter: Karla Woisnitza. In: The Law of the Scene. Gender criticism, performance art and the second public in the late GDR, 2019 transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-8376-4572-9
  • Barbara Wilk-Mincu: Karla Woisnitza. In: Heinrich von Kleist in the Fine Arts 1801–2000, Catalog Raisonné, Volume I / 3, 2019 by Günther Emigs Literatur-Betrieb, Niederstetten, ISBN 978-3-921249-95-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingartan & Karla Woisnitza. Retrieved January 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Woisnitza Karla. In: VdBK1867. Accessed December 29, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Archive window: Karla Woisnitza. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  4. ^ Exhibition “Painting, Graphics, Artist Books on Texts by the Writer Elke Erb. May 8, 1994 to June 30, 1994 ". At Neues-Kunsthaus-Ahrenshoop.de, accessed on February 13, 2019.
  5. ↑ Tiny Domingos | Marilou Winograd | Karla Woisnitza @ rosalux. In: Axel Daniel Reinert - Vernissages and Art News in Berlin. March 27, 2015, accessed February 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ year-a-year-excellent. Year-end exhibition on the subject of drawing, in cooperation with the Berliner Kabinett e. V. From November 13, 2015 to January 16, 2016. At Galerie-Alte-Schule-Adlershof.de, accessed on February 13, 2019.
  7. ↑ 20 years of the Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof: Exhibition SUPER NOVA from December 7th. Press release from December 6th, 2018. In: District Office Treptow-Köpenick - News. On Berlin.de, accessed on February 13, 2019.
  8. ↑ Karla Woisnitza. Newsletter December 2018. In: Galerie Pamme-Vogelsang. From Pamme-Vogelsang.de, accessed on February 13, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Woisnitza, Karla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Rüdersdorf near Berlin