Mandy Kunze

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Mandy Kunze (born March 15, 1978 in Burgstädt ) is a German painter and a representative of the " New Leipzig School ". From 2012 to 2014 she was a master student of Neo Rauch at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig .

Mandy Kunze in her studio, Leipzig 2017, in front of the painting Welle / Wave , 2017, acrylic, pigments, canvas, 345 × 465 cm

education

Mandy Kunze studied from 2005 to 2009 in the specialist class for painting and graphics with Neo Rauch, at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig . In 2006 she was an Erasmus student at NCAD Dublin . In 2008 she was a Leonardo Fellow in Paris. In 2010 she successfully passed her diploma examination in the field of fine arts: painting and graphics under Neo Rauch at the University of Graphics and Book Art Leipzig. From 2010 to 2011 she was a guest student in Neo Rauch's master class for painting and from 2012 to 2014 she was a master student of his master class.

Artistic work

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Kunze mainly paints representationally. The main aspects of her work include the atmosphere of the Leipzig Wilhelminian style and industrial architecture and landscapes. Animals and animal representations play a large role in their life and work. In addition to exotic animals, the Leipzig alluvial forest with its specific flora and fauna is at the center of her paintings. Thematically, her works move in the field of tension between indoor and outdoor space. Kunze describes this as regional visual research in Saxony, which she continuously deepens and expands. The artistic focus is on interiors, the newly created lake landscapes and parks in the area. For a long time, Kunze focused on studying her own work environment. In this process a whole series of varied studio pictures was created. Kunze's painting tends increasingly towards abstraction. Objective things become more difficult to grasp, the picture themes literally dissolve. Since 2017 she has been concentrating on the themes of sea, water, waves and, associated with this, on the colors blue and turquoise in nuanced shades. The monumental painting Welle / Wave from 2017, composed of several parts and with the format of 345 × 465 cm, is a current highlight. Your pictures develop a strong visual life of their own and speak for themselves. The writer Clemens Meyer , among others, refers to this when he notes about Mandy Kunze's painting:

“Bury the words. Photos!"

In 2014 and 2016, Kunze participated in two exhibitions in Abu Dhabi, one in New York and in 2015 a four-week work grant in Tel Aviv. The ambivalence of distance and home is a central theme of her work, which connects with the others in various places.

She sees the picture Tao (2014), in which Far Eastern and regional elements meet, as a symbol of her path of development . Abu Dhabi inspired her to devote herself to the desert and the Arabian tradition of falconry. The idea of ​​hunting has something meditative about it. The process of mindfulness is crucial here. The group exhibition Formation 7 at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts in 2017 also related to the topic of hunting .

The connection between two cultures and landscapes is characteristic of her painting, with which she tries to lift the veil of habit.

reception

Neo Rauch wrote in 2010: "Over the years, Mandy Kunze has been pushing her painterly program with great vigor. From an early age, she has met the panel painting as a place of revelation of artistic coincidences with the appropriate respect and courage that is necessary to achieve achievements in this field Expanding positions and finally overcoming them. " He particularly emphasizes its "almost combative intensity", "with which it forces the color matter into its transformations. Thus it maintains the evolutionary deep tension in the work and at the same time leaves the viewer curious (...)".

The art historian Sara Tröster Klemm assesses Kunze's works as follows:

“Mandy Kunze (...) orients her pictorial subjects to the great masters of classical modernism, Claude Monet , Vincent van Gogh , Pablo Picasso - that is obvious when you look at her interiors and landscapes. With their accentuated central perspective, their pictures develop a suction that involuntarily draws the viewer into the picture. At the same time, Mandy Kunze has developed a very unique visual language, which is most evident in her characteristic brushstroke . She places individual lines and individual colors next to one another in extremely contrasting fashion. The brushstrokes stand for themselves, individually, they are strong and self-confident, almost independent, as if they led a life of their own - and yet they have to function in the picture as a whole. This leads to an intense tension in her pictures, on the one hand they appear rough, bulky, with a strong perspective and on the other hand they have a harmonious motif. With her "virtuoso mastery of color, Kunze succeeds in modeling the finest moods. She shows us tropical hot nights under palm trees, Arabian landscapes and quiet central European evening scenes. She shows us home and distance at the same time."

Kunze prefers a traditional way of working, which she also passes on to her students in the course of her teaching at the HGB Leipzig evening academy :

“I really enjoy working on site and without any photo templates. Sometimes I go out into nature with a drawing pad, sometimes with large canvases. When working on site, with the easel in the open air, I always try to approach the moment of inspiration. It is a free artistic work, and for me it is about more than “transferring” a scene en plein-air documentary: The locations serve as a source of inspiration and should also be recognizable in the change of seasons, colors, moods and different weather conditions - the painting process always has the upper hand. "

On Museum.de Kunze is described as "one of the most interesting representatives of the Leipzig School of Painting".

Teaching

  • 2014–2018: Lecturer in the evening academy of the HGB Leipzig : Painting, nature studies

Work grants

  • 2016: Fourth graphics symposium, Bad Elster
  • 2016: Graphics workshop L6, Freiburg
  • 2015: 9th stone work lithography, Leipzig symposium
  • 2015: Art Port Tel Aviv , Israel
  • 2014: Salem 2 Salem, Lake Constance district
  • 2013: Salem 2 Salem, New York , US

Awards

  • 2009: Warmth, 1st prize in the lithography technology competition , Verbundnetz Gas AG, Leipzig
  • 2014: Sponsorship award, Museum Goslar, Zonta St. Barbara Goslar

Solo exhibitions

  • 2020: About, Massiv archive, cotton spinning mill, Leipzig
  • 2020: The holiness of the plot, A&O Kunsthalle Leipzig
  • 2020: Aqua Magica, Amber Room Nuremberg
  • 2020: Painting and graphics, Kunstverein Wernigerode
  • 2019: Open Studio spring and autumn tour, cotton spinning mill, Leipzig
  • 2019: The Inconceivability of Things, Municipal Gallery Villingen-Schwenningen
  • 2018: Resonance & Resilience, MDR Intendanz Leipzig
  • 2017: Out of the Blue, Detmold Summer Theater
  • 2015: Time becomes space here, Robert-Koepke-Haus Schwalenberg
  • 2014: A fire that turns to earth, master class exhibition in Leipzig
  • 2014: Nil director, Boxhalle Düsseldorf
  • 2011: The Golden Journey to Samarkand, Brukenthal Museum , Galeria de Arta Contemporana, Sibiu , Romania
  • 2011: Wood, Rochsburg Castle Museum
  • 2010: Diploma exhibition "Weisses Feld", Leipzig cotton spinning mill

Participation in exhibitions

  • 2020: 35th graphics exchange, Paradox, Orangery Dessau, museum in the Kressbronn area
  • 2020: TRI, group exhibition on the 3rd floor of Hall 14 on the ground floor of Hall 14, Spinnerei Leipzig
  • 2019: Voilà, cotton spinning mill , Leipzig
  • 2019: Meisterstück !, ZAK Center for Contemporary Art, Alte Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin
  • 2019: 35th graphics exchange, Paradox, Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig, Burgk Castle, Kunstwandelhalle Bad Elster, Neue Sächsische Galerie Bad Elster
  • 2018: Stadt Land Fluss, Buddehaus, Leipzig
  • 2018: Paradox, Museum for Printing Art , Leipzig
  • 2018: After the picture is before the picture, Friends of Current Art , Zwickau
  • 2018: 12th Graphic Biennial 100 Saxon Graphics, Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz
  • 2018: Act 1: Hatz, Formation 7, Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
  • 2017: Prelude, Formation 7, Spinnerei Leipzig
  • 2017: Mothers, Tapetenwerk Leipzig
  • 2017: Ladder to heaven, Kunsthalle Pfaffenhofen
  • 2017: From Cranach to Charlie Hebdo , Kunstverein Coburg
  • 2017: More pressure, Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim, Austria
  • 2017: 4th graphics exchange, passage, touring exhibition Burgk Castle, Landtag Dresden, Bad Elster, Museum Eisenhüttenstadt, Kressbronn am Bodensee
  • 2016: Dokodemodoor, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig cotton spinning mill
  • 2016: 34th graphics exchange, Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig
  • 2016: 100 Saxon graphics, New Saxon Gallery Chemnitz
  • 2016: Global home - yes Paradise no, Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates
  • 2016: Under pressure, graphics / poetry slam, artist workshop L6 Freiburg
  • 2015: Impress, Print Symposia of the BBK Leipzig, Museum of Printing Art
  • 2015: Rotliegend, Mandy Kunze and Kerstin Pfefferkorn, Landtag Dresden
  • 2015: Transurban art stories, Leipzig is calling, Xpon Hamburg
  • 2015: 22nd annual Leipzig exhibition, LIA eV, Westwerk
  • 2015: 1st floor, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2015: Blind Date, Alabama, Sir, Leipzig
  • 2015: Sittenbild, room four and a half, St. Gallen
  • 2014: Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Salwa Zeidan Gallery, Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates
  • 2014: Martin Ziegler and Mandy Kunze, Galerie Irrgang, Berlin
  • 2014: Salem2Salem, artist residency and exhibition, Schloss Salem , Bodenseekreis
  • 2014: New Barbizon - Portraits and Landscapes, C1 Project Space Berlin
  • 2014: Central Bus station, exhibition with New Barbizon, Tel Aviv , Israel
  • 2014: Guest from Zucker, master class Neo Rauch, Galerie Noah, Augsburg
  • 2013: One fish two fish red fish blue fish, Salve Art Gallery, Leipzig
  • 2013: Salem2Salem, Artist Residency and exhibition, New York , USA
  • 2013: The other side, Magdeburg Culture Festival
  • 2013: The uprising of things, Rauch master class, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg
  • 2013: Atelier for etching Vlado and Maria Ondrej, Winterthur , Switzerland
  • 2012: The Black Tongue, Rauch master class at the Kunstverein Isny ​​/ Allgäu
  • 2012: Exhibition in support of the Berlin Street Choir , Philharmonie Berlin
  • 2012: Tacheles art festival, painting and graphics in the former theater hall, Berlin
  • 2011: The Black Tongue, Etching Edition Meisterklasse Rauch Spinnerei, Leipzig
  • 2011: 8th Berlin Art Salon, international art fair, Berlin
  • 2010: The former north, master class Neo Rauch , Kunstverein Ettlingen

Public collections

  • Municipal gallery Villingen-Schwenningen
  • Art gallery of the Sparkasse Leipzig
  • Art collection of VNG - Verbundnetz Gas AG Leipzig

Private collections in Abu Dhabi, Bucharest, Frankfurt a. M., Leipzig, New York City, Paris a. a.

literature

  • Nina Fischäss: Mandy Kunze, in: Global Home - yes Paradise no, ed. by Sara Tröster Klemm, exhib.-cat. Observation Deck Abu Dhabi, Sandstein Verlag, Dresden / Abu Dhabi 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052904-7 , p. 43.
  • Vanessa Charlotte Heitland: The Power of Pictures, in: The Inconceivability of Things. Mitja Ficko - Mandy Kunze, ed. by Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen, exhibition catalog, Verlag Stadt Villingen-Schwenningen 2019, ISBN 978-3-939423-76-8 , pp. 28–31.
  • Mandy Kunze, Clemens Meyer , Karoline Mueller-Stahl, Neo Rauch : The Blue Hour, MMKoehn Verlag, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-944903-31-6 .
  • Edmund Piper: 8th Berliner Kunstsalon, art magazine, 2011, pp. 50–51.
  • Neo smoke ; Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen eV (ed.): The former north, text: Clemens Meyer , Salon Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-89770-381-0 , pp. 97-109.
  • Christoph Ruckhäberle : LUBOK 9, original linocut book, printed by carpe plumbum, LUBOK Verlag Leipzig 2010, pp. 111–114 (above).
  • Sophie Stock: Mandy Kunze. The Golden Journey to Samarkand. Galeria de Artǎ Contemporanǎ a Muzeului National Brukenthal, Sibiu, August 2-25, 2011 , about the exhibition in the Brukenthal Museum , translated into Romanian by Jutta Martini, in: arta. Uniunea Artistilor din Romania , Issue No. 2-3 / 2011, pp. 138-139, ISSN  0004-3354 .
  • Sara Tröster Klemm : Global Home - yes Paradise no. An essay on home and globalization , in: Global Home - yes Paradise no , ed. of this., exhibition cat. Observation Deck Abu Dhabi, Sandstein Verlag, Dresden / Abu Dhabi 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052904-7 , p. 17.
  • Bernd Guido Weber: Neo Rauch's master class from Leipzig explores etching, in: Schwäbische.de, May 7, 2012, accessed on October 10, 2016.
  • Neue Sächsische Galerie, museum for contemporary art sponsored by the Kunstverein neue Chemnitzer Kunsthütte eV, 100 Saxon Graphics, Chemnitz 2016, ISBN 978-3-937176-30-7 , p. 63/64.
  • Rainer Zerbst: Dream creations on canvas: Pictures by Mandy Kunze and Mitja Ficko , online: https://www.rainer-zerbst.de/traumgebilde-auf-leinwand-bilder-von-mandy-kunze-und-mitja-ficko/ , last checked on October 27, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National College of Art and Design Dublin , accessed October 10, 2016
  2. ↑ https://www.lvz.de/Thema/Specials/Zoo-Leipzig/Zoo-Nachrichten/Zoo-Leipzig-und-HGB-iegen-gemeinsam-auf-Safari-in-Leipzig
  3. ^ Clemens Meyer , in: Mandy Kunze. The Blue Hour , Leipzig: MMKoehn Verlag, 2017, p. 1. (reprint) ISBN 978-3-944903-31-6
  4. ^ Exhibition of Formation 7 , Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig , accessed on November 10, 2019
  5. ↑ Neo Rauch: Neo Rauch . In: Mandy Kunze. The blue hour . MMKoehn Verlag, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-944903-31-6 , pp. 17 .
  6. ↑ Sara Tröster Klemm, opening speech “The Uprising of Things: Master Class Neo Rauch”, Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, 2013
  7. ↑ Nina Fischäss, Mandy Kunze, in: Global Home - yes Paradise no, ed. by Sara Tröster Klemm, exhib.-cat. Observation Deck Abu Dhabi, Dresden / Abu Dhabi 2016, p. 43.
  8. ^ Sara Tröster Klemm , Global Home - yes Paradise no. An essay on home and globalization, in: Global Home - yes Paradise no, ed. by Sara Tröster Klemm, exhib.-cat. Observation Deck Abu Dhabi, Dresden / Abu Dhabi 2016, p. 17.
  9. ↑ https://www.museum.de/event/mandy-kunze-und-mitja-ficko-die-unfassbarkeit-der-dinge
  10. ^ Zonta St. Barbara Goslar
  11. ^ Municipal Gallery Villingen-Schwenningen, exhibition The Inconceivability of Things. Mitja Ficko - Mandy Kunze , 17.02.2019-28.04.2019
  12. ↑ Robert-Koepke-Haus Schwalenberg ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schieder-schwalenberg.de
  13. ^ Brukenthal Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Sibiu, Romania
  14. ↑ Bernd Guido Weber, Neo Rauch's master class from Leipzig explores etching, in: Schwäbische.de, May 7, 2012, accessed on October 10, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kunze, Mandy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and representative of the "New Leipzig School"
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgstädt