Simone Kornfeld

Simone Kornfeld (born July 29, 1954 in Berlin ) is a visual artist living in Berlin and Switzerland .

Live and act

Simone Kornfeld grew up in the southwest of Berlin in a family of artists and journalists. She started drawing and painting at an early age. As the daughter of the journalist and director Cornelius Kornfeld and the singer Sigrid Pohl, she was lastingly shaped by an artistic environment, especially music and film. When she was seven, her father gave her an Agfa Click camera , which she experimented with. The two media, painting and photography, determine her life and work.

From 1972 to 1976 she studied painting and visual communication at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin with Manfred Riewe with a diploma. The Bauhaus- oriented course enabled her to combine all areas of art in theory and practice. Johannes Itten , Josef Albers , Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky are among the formative role models who led to the topic of her diploma thesis on the fundamentals of color perception . She then studied at the Free University of Berlin art history and philosophy at Peter Gaehtgens and Werner Oechslin , finishing the master's degree in 1982 with artium Magistra .

Simone Kornfeld has been working as a freelance artist at home and abroad since 1983. Inspired by the spirit of the surrealists Breton , Duchamp and Masson , one focus of their work is the theme of time and art . Likewise, the philosophy of existentialism with Kierkegaard, Jaspers and especially by Simone de Beauvoir accompany questions in her artistic and research-based exploration. Her works, mostly abstract large-format paintings, as well as her photographic portraits and painting portraits, reflect themes of existence, being and consciousness.

Since 1992 she has also been working as a freelance curator, giving lectures and workshops on contemporary painting and the like. a. in the Marmara University Istanbul , in the Ikona Photo Gallery, Venice, in the Filmpark Babelsberg, Potsdam and in the Association of Berlin Artists, Berlin .

Exhibitions (selection)

(EA = solo exhibition, GA = group exhibition)

1988: Color Creation (EA), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
1989: Art and Money (EA), Galerie Van Alom, Berlin
1990: Mauer - Cuts (EA), Goethe Institute, Berlin
1992: La Tombe de la Prusse (EA), Galerie Ermer, Berlin (catalog)
1993: The light of Mohammed ... (EA), Goethe-Institut Istanbul, Istanbul
1994: Respect (EA), KunstMuseum Bonn, Bonn (catalog)
1997: Art Museum Gelsenkirchen (with Austin, König), Gelsenkirchen
1997: Klicks (EA), German Historical Museum , Berlin
1999: German Embassy Damascus, Syria
2000: German Embassy Abuja, Nigeria
2001: German Embassy Manama, Bahrain
2002: German Embassy (residence of the German NATO ambassador), Brussels
2004: Maria ... Diva (EA), National Museums in Berlin, Kulturforum, Berlin (catalog)
2006: Take off (EA), Strong Foundation, Berlin
2008: Queen Artists (EA), Galerie M, Berlin
2009: Crossing Boundaries (EA), Ikona Venezia Photo Galerie (with Reinhild Hoffmann), Venice (catalog)
2011: Flying dots (EA), Galerie Köppe Contemporary Berlin
2012: Kunsthaus Potsdam, Potsdam
2012: Biennale Change-Exchange, Yang Peyong Art Museum, Seoul (catalog)
2013: Jahide Erel Gallery, Istanbul
2013: Gallery of the VBK, Berlin
2014: Change-Exchange Yang Peyong Art Museum, Seoul; Catalog
2014: Gallery of the VBK, Berlin
2015: Rococo Queens (EA), URANIA, Berlin
2015: MIA_BER: You Are Leaving the American Sector (GA), South Florida Art Center, Miami
2016: New Gallery, Haifa
2016: Galerie Michaela Helferich, Berlin
2016: Yang Peyong Art Museum, Seoul (catalog)
2017: History Museum, Sofia
2017: Biennale Seoul / Berlin, Urania Berlin (catalog)
2017: Gallery F 200, Berlin
2017: KunstHaus, Potsdam
2018: Time Difference, ABF Building Academy and NSPU Gallery Association Prague
2018: Villa Ventura, Milan
2018: Contrasts (EA), Hartmann Galerie Berlin (catalog)

Awards and scholarships (selection)

Competition award of the Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA) with water bridge (Senate purchase), Berlin 1986
Competition prize for art instead of advertising by the new society for fine arts (NGBK), Berlin 1996
Cultural exchange grants from the State of Berlin - Fine Arts: Istanbul, Senate Berlin 1990
Scholarship at Kloster Cismar, Ministry for Education, Science and Culture, Schleswig-Holstein , 1994 and 1995

Works in public collections

Berlinische Galerie - Museum for Modern Art, Berlin; Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie , Berlin
Artothek Berlin-Charlottenburg (formerly Charlottenburg Art Office); Graphothek Berlin-Reinickendorf; Archive of the Berlin Artists Association
Jewish Hospital, Berlin
Jewish Museum, Rendsburg
Art Museum Gelsenkirchen
Goethe-Institut , Istanbul (work destroyed / house demolished)
German embassies, in: Damascus (Syria); Abuja (Nigeria); Bahrain (UAE); Brussels Belgium); Tokyo and Karuizawa (Japan)

Publications (selection)

Forum 6: Art without support - truncated art? Artists and patrons in conversation: Franz Cesarz, Walter Dahn, Simone Kornfeld, Dr. Erich Marx, Henri Nannen, Marin Neuffer, Axel Hecht. P. 221–244, in: The art of making art in Germany. Documentation of the cultural congress of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation on November 12, 1988 in Berlin, Königswinter 1989, ISBN 3-89351-042-7 .
Artist statements about the color blue: Simone Kornfeld. In: Blue: the twilight of thought, kaleidoscope of one color. Edited by Andreas Bee, Christmut Präger. Heidelberger Kunstverein, 1990, ISBN 3-926905-06-9 , p. 87.
35 artists answer 14 questions. In: Temporary Art Research. Edited by Künstlerhaus Berlin. Edition 3, Verlag Ars Nicolai, 1993, ISBN 3-89479-036-9 , pp. 85-133.
Simone Kornfeld "Respect". Bonn 1994.
Self-portraits (2 illustrations) In: Torso. Association of Berlin Women Artists, Berlin 2003 pp. 444–445.
Simone Kornfeld, "Maria ... between femme fatale and diva". Berlin 2004.
Simone Kornfeld, "Queen Artists", Galerie M, Berlin 2008.
Simone Kornfeld, “painting-installation-photography”. Berlin 2010.
Simone Kornfeld, “flying dots”, Galerie Köppe Contemporary, Berlin 2013
2016 - 175 years. Always contemporary. VBK, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9818399-1-3 .
Totalitarian. Gallery VBK Berlin. Art In Flow Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-938457-30-6 .
Simone Kornfeld, “Contrasts”. Art In Flow Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-938457-40-5
Techne , Berlin-Porto Alegre, Berlin 2019, Art In Flow Verlag, ISBN 978-3-938457-37-5
Half of the World , Association of Berlin Artists, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9818399-3-7
Time difference, VBK Berlin - NSPU Prague, Prague / Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9818399-2-0
Sex . Association of Berlin Artists, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9818399-4-4

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Kornfeld, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] Marmara University, Istanbul

[2] Ikona Photo Gallery, Venice

[3] Babelsberg Film Park

[4] Association of Berlin Artists

[5] German Historical Museum, Berlin

[6] URANIA, Berlin

[7] Florida Art Center, Miami

[8] Historical Museum, Sofia

[9] PRAHA BERLIN 2018 2019

[10] New society for fine arts (art in the underground) Art instead of advertising 1996: stay behind

[11] Art In Flow Verlag