Petra Kasten
Petra Kasten (born March 30, 1955 in Dresden ) is a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
From 1973 to 1976 Petra Kasten attended evening school at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts . She then studied painting and graphics there from 1976 to 1982. Then she worked as a freelancer. From 1986 to 1988 she was a master class student with Günter Horlbeck .
Together with Lutz Fleischer and Andreas Hegewald , she founded Leitwolfverlag in 1983, which specialized in artistically valuable editions. From 1995 to 1996 she directed the evening academy at the Dresden University of Fine Arts . Since 1999 she has been a member of the German Association of Artists . In 2003 she was one of the forty out of over a hundred artists who were elected DKB members between 1999 and 2003. She took part in the anniversary exhibition to mark the centenary of the Künstlerbund in Bonn's Bundeskunsthalle with the large-format drawing Resonanz .
Petra Kasten lives in Dresden.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1984: Studio Fine Arts, Berlin-Lichtenberg
- 1989: Leonhardi Museum , Dresden
- 1991: Beethovenstrasse Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 1993: Dresden Panorama , Blue Factory , Dresden
- 1995: La Vie en rose , Villa Massimo , Rome
- 1996: Studio exhibit, 756 High Street, Columbus, Ohio
- 1998: Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral , Bad Ems
- 1999: Städtische Galerie , Albstadt
- 2000: Temporary facade design, Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein
- 2003: New pictures , Kunstverein Schloss Röderhof
- 2006: The worm , riesa efau , Dresden
- 2007: Dresden Panorama , Palais in the Great Garden , Dresden
- 2008: Vom Do , Kunsthalle Vierseithof , Luckenwalde
- 2014: Fields in Fields , Dresden City Gallery
- 2016: Kwer falls in , Galerie Adlergasse, Dresden
- 2020: Structure of Matter , Leonhardi Museum , Dresden
Awards (selection)
- 1994: Villa Massimo Scholarship, Rome
- 1994: Art Prize of the New Saxon Art Association
- 1995: Scholarship from the Kulturfonds Berlin, director of the evening academy of the HfBK, Dresden
- 1996: USA scholarship from the city of Dresden, Columbus / Ohio
- 1998: Scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral , Bad Ems
- 1999: Felix Hollenberg Prize for Etching
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "K" / Petra Kasten (accessed on September 6, 2015)
- ↑ s. Petra Kasten in: DKB exhibition catalog Herbarium of Views. New recordings in the Deutscher Künstlerbund , rheinsatz, Cologne 2003. p. 68. (Ill. P. 25: Resonanz , 2000, brush drawing, lacquer paint on laid paper, 100 × 140 cm).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Box, Petra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |