Sibylle Springer

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Sibylle Springer (* 1975 in Münster ) is a German painter.

life and work

Springer studied at the Bremen University of the Arts (with Karin Kneffel , Stefan Kürten and Katharina Grosse ). Sibylle Springer lives and works in Bremen and Berlin (2016).

She became famous for her New York series of images, which show rainy street scenes and graffiti in subway tunnels. She implodes the motifs on her canvases. The objectivity vanishes in glistening, impressionistic-looking shimmering colors. Here Springer takes up the effect of the rain and the speed of the underground trains. What remains are afterimages - remnants of memories of external reality.

Sibylle Springer proceeds differently in her current work. It is based on old and contemporary works of art as well as photos that she finds on the Internet and that deal with depictions of the abysmal and sexuality . However, it often refers to the painting of the Renaissance , Baroque or Rococo . Large formats are created in acrylic on canvas, the effect of which is characterized by ambivalences: They oscillate between abstraction and figuration, showing and hiding, beauty and horror, past and present, tradition and innovation.

"Sibylle Springer's artistic fascination is with the human body, more precisely: the body in its interweaving with the gaze directed towards it, addressed to it. which is always already inscribed with a structure of reflection impregnated by cultural history. Which means, among other things: Despite the often immediate, strongly affective effect of body representations, nothing is unconditional. Innocent nudity is just as constructive as erotic sophistication; whether artistic nudes, pornography or biological objectivity, that ethnologically alien or historically alienated, the ugly or the beautiful - what one is and what the other is never merely “natural”, “suggestive”, “objective” or “repulsive.” In this respect, Springer's aesthetic project is in The core is always a reflection of the gaze from this Then wait for the reflection on painting, its styles, pictorial traditions and subjects. [...] "

Jens Asthoff on Springer's work (from the catalog "gift", Verlag für moderne Kunst , Vienna, 2017)

Honourings and prices

Exhibitions

literature

  • Jens Asthoff: Body in view. The painting by Sibylle Springer , page 28 and Svea Kellner: Ambivalences and oscillations. An exhibition tour through gift , page 04 In: gift, Verlag für moderne Kunst , Vienna 2017
  • Meyer, Kathrin: White spots. Drawing in the unknown , page 6 and Wolfgang Ullrich: I use a baroque-like principle in my work , Wolfgang Ullrich in conversation with Sibylle Springer, page 18 In: Gleam , Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2011
  • Jansen, Gregor: A stored feeling of being connected to the earth , Gregor Jansen in conversation with Sibylle Springer, page 2 and Kohrs, Klaus Heinrich: Adventure of the imagination , page 14 In: Sibylle Springer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship holders, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, 2012

Works in collections

Collection of the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven

Collection Kunsthalle Bremen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kunstaspekte.de/sibylle-springer/
  2. ↑ http://www.daad.de/alumni/netzwerke/vip-galerie/adm/13717.de.html
  3. ↑ http://www.weserburg.de/
  4. ↑ http://www.kunstvereinruhr.de/
  5. ↑ http://www.gak-bremen.de
  6. ↑ http://www.kunstaspekte.de/full-house-karl-schmidt-rottluff-stipendium-2012-02/
  7. ↑ http://www.kunstaspekte.de/deja-vu-die-kunst-der-wiederammlung-von-durer-2012-04/
  8. ↑ http://www.kunstverein-bremerhaven.de
  9. ↑ http://www.hangar-7.com/de/kunst/hangart-7-edition-14-deutschland/
  10. ↑ http://www.kunstaspekte.de/malerei-2008-2008-06/
  11. ↑ https://vfmk.org/de/shop/sibylle-springer
  12. ↑ http://www.kerberverlag.com/detailansicht/controller/Shop/action/show/product/1483.html
personal data
SURNAME Springer, Sibylle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster