Pia Linz

Pia Linz (* 1964 in Kronberg im Taunus ) is a German artist (drawing, painting) and professor of drawing in the field of painting at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . She lives and works in Berlin .

biography

After graduating from high school in 1983 at the Wolfgang-Ernst-Gymnasium in Büdingen , Pia Linz studied painting and graphics at the Städelschule in Frankfurt with Thomas Bayrle , Johann Georg Geyger , Felix Droese and Christa Näher . She became a master student of Christa Näher.

Pia Linz is a member of the German Association of Artists . It is represented by Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin. Since 2016 she has been a professor of drawing in the painting department at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin . Her artistic focus is on drawing and painting.

Pia Linz deals with the phenomenon of the individual perception of the world and its implementation in the picture. Two fundamentally different visualization concepts of places have emerged, but they have in common the tendency to be analytical and subjective at the same time and to connect the external with the internal world.

For example, she develops the three-dimensional “hood images” and “case engravings” from the inside from a fixed point of view, from which she captures the surroundings with a perspective view.

The “local images” of the 1980s and the “location-related drawing projects”, on the other hand, are close to a cartographic perspective. First she measures the place with footsteps and works out a plan of the area. Immediately on site, with the help of a portable drawing board , she meticulously notes her observations in this plan. While the countless pedestrian perspectives merge into a kind of bird's eye view due to their comparative timings in the drawing , the place is transformed into a free-floating monad.

Awards and grants

2015: HAP-Grieshaber-Prize of VG Bild-Kunst
2013: Working grant from the Berlin Senate's cultural administration
2010/2011: New York scholarship from the Berlin Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs
2007: Working grant from the Berlin Senate's cultural administration
2005/2006: London Scholarship from the Hessian Cultural Foundation
2003: Working scholarship in the Edenkoben mansion
2000/2001: Working grant from Hessische Kultur GmbH
1999: eleven-month work grant from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral , Bad Ems
1989/1990: Rome scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
1988: Admission to the German National Academic Foundation

Linz had many solo (E) and group (G) exhibitions at home and abroad.

Exhibitions (selection)

2016 A Hole in the Sea, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (G)
2016 Pia Linz: Central Park - drawings and case engravings, Middle Rhine Museum, Koblenz (E)
2016 Pia Linz - LOCATION, Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim (E)
2015 Four new things on paper, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (G)
2015 Lines of Ideas - Architecture as Drawing, Marta Herford, Herford (G)
2015 Walk the Line. New ways of drawing, Museum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (G)
2015 New Frankfurt Internationals II: Solid Signs, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (G)
2015 Space Liner, Arter, Istanbul (G)
2015 Pia Linz - case engravings and pencil drawings, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin (E)
2015 Volkspark Hasenheide, on the occasion of "HAP - Grieshaber - Prize of VG Bild Kunst", project space of the German Association of Artists Berlin (E)
2014 network. On spinning in art, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (G)
2014 Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (G) / Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (G)
2013 SCHAUPLATZ STADT - Paintings, drawings, installations - From classical modernism to the present, Mülheim Art Museum, Mülheim an der Ruhr (G)
2012 Drawing stories: narration in the Contemporary Graphic Museum Folkwang, Essen (G)
2011 Linie, Line, Linea- drawing of the present, Museo Nacional De Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay (G)
2010 CONTEMPORARY DRAWINGS FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (G)
2010 The more I draw / drawing as a world design, Museum for Contemporary Art Siegen, Siegen (G)
2010 Line, Line, Linea drawing of the present, Kunstmuseum Bonn (G)
2009 THE IMAGE / THE IMAGE BEHIND, ARTEFACT FESTIVAL, STUK, Leuven, Belgium
2007 Mile End Park, Kunstpunkt, Berlin (E)

Working in public collections

Wolfsburg Art Museum, Wolfsburg
Art gallery Emden, Emden
Folkwang Museum, Essen
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
Rhineland-Palatinate Collection, Mainz
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main
German Investment Trust, Frankfurt am Main
Hessian State Museum Darmstadt
Hessian Cultural Foundation, Wiesbaden
Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart
State Museums Berlin (Kupferstichkabinett), Berlin
Osram Collection, Munich
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
State Graphic Collection Munich

Web links / references

Pia Linz in the media

personal data
SURNAME	Linz, Pia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kronberg im Taunus