Silke Leverkuehne

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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 .

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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

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personal data
SURNAME Leverkuehne, Silke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg