Silke Leverkuehne
Silke Leverkühne (* 1953 in Rendsburg ) is a German painter. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Cologne.
biography
Silke Leverkühne studied painting with Norbert Kricke and André Thomkins at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1971 to 1975 and graduated in 1978 as a master student with Alfonso Hüppi . From 1975 to 1976 Leverkühne went to the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where he also studied painting.
From 1993 to 1995 she was visiting professor for fine arts at the University of Kassel and in 1999 she was also visiting professor at the International Summer Academy for Art and Design Pentiment-HAW Hamburg. From 1999 to 2002 she held a teaching position for painting at the University of Essen . From 2002 to 2003, Leverkühne took on a substitute professorship for Barbara Hammann's basic class at the Kassel Art College . Since 2004 she has been a professor for artistic practice with a focus on painting at the Institute for Art and Art Theory at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne.
An important exhibition was in 1984 From Here - Two Months of New German Art in Düsseldorf . From 1985 to 1986 she had a studio in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. 1987–89 she was a scholarship holder of the Günther Peill Foundation , Düren . In 1989 she received the sponsorship award from the city of Düsseldorf . She was part of the selection of artists who were newly admitted between 1999 and 2003, whose work was shown at the exhibition for the one hundredth anniversary of the DKB in the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn. In 2011 Leverkühne was artist in residence in Etaneno, Museum im Busch, Namibia.
Leverkühne is a member of the German Association of Artists , a member of the board of the International Artists 'Committee (IKG) and a member of the advisory board for the archive for artists' bequests, Stiftung Kunstfonds .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2019 In other areas, Silke Leverkühne, Sybille Hassinger, Dr. Carl Dörken Gallery, Herdecke
- 2019 Silke Leverkühne, Elisabeth Wagner - painting, sculpture, Karsten Weigmann Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 2018 Silke Leverkühne & Fernand Roda , moods of time Galerie Bengelsträter, Düsseldorf
- 2017 Silke Leverkühne, Sigrid Kopfermann , Structure and Imagination, Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Foundation, Düsseldorf
- 2016 master student Alfonso Hüppi , Kunstverein Oberhausen
- 2016 25 years of the Kunstverein, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
- 2014 Silke Leverkühne, Birgit Werres Palais Liechtenstein, Feldkirch, Austria
- 2014 Looking back, 25 years of the Lippstadt Art Association
- 2013 Silke Leverkühne: green earth on Berg blau, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren
- 2013 From Beckmann to Warhol, Bayer Collection, Martin Gropius Bau , Berlin
- 2013 Traditional and Contemporary Art, MoMA XLY, Chengdu, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
- 2013 the devil in the detail, Galerie Lehr, Cologne
- 2012 "10 years of painting" Matt McClune, Yeunhi Kim, Silke Leverkühne, Galerie Krohn, Basel
- 2011 Museum im Busch, Etaneno , Namibia
- 2010 Silke Leverkühne: “Light and Air”, Galerie Krohn, Basel
- 2009 Silke Leverkühne: summertime, Bengelsträter Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 2009 guest performance - Collection WGZ Bank Düsseldorf, Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck
- 2007 as it is - painting from the early 80s to today, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2003 Herbarium of Views, Deutscher Künstlerbund , Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
- 2001 Silke Leverkühne, Peter Mell , loner, Federal Academy for Cultural Education , Wolfenbüttel
- 2000 landscape rooms , Deutsche Bank Collection, Museum Küppersmühle , Duisburg
- 2000 235km. Art from Düsseldorf in Moscow, New Manege Moscow
- 2000 Silke Leverkühne: "changing cloudy", Altonaer Museum , Hamburg
- 1999 Eyewitnesses, Hanck Collection, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
- 1997 Silke Leverkühne: Landscapes-Cloud Pictures, Von der Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal
- 1995 The Adventure of Painting, Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf and Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart
- 1991 Silke Leverkühne: the column, Kunstverein Braunschweig
- 1991 Silke Leverkühne: est, est, est, Kunstverein Emmerich
- 1990 Silke Leverkühne: "from a different perspective", Westfälischer Kunstverein , Münster, Mannheimer Kunstverein , Erfurter Kunstverein in the Angermuseum
- 1989 Silke Leverkühne: Peill scholarship holders, Leopold Hoesch Museum , Düren
- 1986 Silke Leverkühne: Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
- 1984 from here - two months of new German art, exhibition halls in Düsseldorf
- 1982 Con-Figurazione, Musei Comunali Casa della Coltura, Livorno, Italy
- 1978 Self-talk, Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart and Haus am Waldsee , Berlin
Awards
- 2011 Artist in Residence, Etaneno Ojiwarongo, Namibia
- 1999 city painter in Leverkusen , scholarship from Bayer AG
- 1989 Prize of the City of Düsseldorf
- 1986 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Literature (selection)
- 2017 Kay Heymer "Silke Leverkühne in the Kopfermann-Fuhrmann Foundation, painting between observation and imagination", structure and imagination, Verlag Kettler, ISBN 978-3-86206-647-6
- 2017 Necmi Sönmez "Time and space coincide, observations on Silke Leverkühne's new pictures", structure and imagination, Verlag Kettler, ISBN 978-3-86206-647-6
- 2013 Dorothée Bauerle-Willert “The ecstasies of nature”, Markus Mascher “A school of seeing” in green earth on mountain blue, in the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum , Düren, Verlag Kettler, ISBN 978-3-86206-267-6
- 2009 Experiencing the Darwin Project Evolution, Dorothee Bauerle-Willert, Silke Leverkühne, Daniel Dressman, Volker Sauel, Global ArtAffairs Verlag, ISBN 978-3-941763-01-2
- 2007 Renate Goldmann, "Torques of painterly self-challenge", How it is - Pictures from the early 1980s to today, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , DuMont Literature and Art Verlag , ISBN 978-3-8321-9020-0
- 2001 Susanne Rennert "Pictures of Reality", Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, ISBN 3-926820-75-6
- 2001 Stephan Berg “Vom Balancing der Bilder”, loner, Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel, Salon Verlag Cologne, ISBN 3-89770-149-9
- 1984 Jan Thorn Prikker in from here, two months of new German art, Kaspar König, ed., DuMont literature and art publishing house , Cologne ISBN 3-7701-1650-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Silke Leverkühne in the catalog of the German National Library
- Silke Leverkühne in the Digital German Library
- Official website of Silke Leverkühne
- Art aspects Silke Leverkühne
Individual evidence
- Stimulating conversation in the Dörken-Galerie, May 29, 2019
- RP, Monika Götz, Art in Line, May 1, 2017
- Fair and art in fresh dialogue, Aachener Zeitung, Eckhard Hoog, June 8, 2013
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Leverkuehne, Silke |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rendsburg |