Sylke of Gaza

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Sylke von Gaza painting in the San Fantin church in Venice , 2014

Sylke von Gaza (born July 1, 1966 in Hamburg as Sylke von Gazen called Gaza) is a German artist . In addition to her main abstract painting, she is involved in numerous projects with the effect of painting in architectural space and the process of painting with the inclusion of the environment. Von Gaza lives and works in Munich , Venice and Zurich .

Professional background

At the age of three, Sylke von Gaza was taken by her great-grandmother on long trips to Italy , especially Venice and Emilia-Romagna. She experienced architecture and painting for the first time during visits to the numerous churches, for example in Ravenna , Assisi and Venice . That left lasting impressions and is still the inspiration for her work today.

With her undergraduate degree, von Gaza graduated as an engineer . During her studies of free painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 2002 to 2007 with the Irish painter Sean Scully , von Gaza dealt intensively with the painting of old masters and Abstract Expressionism . In 2007 von Gaza completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with the distinction of master class student .

Artistic creation and work

The Dutch and Italian Renaissance painting is a central element in Sylke von Gaza's work as a source of inspiration. With her mostly large-format, abstract oil paintings , she places herself in the tradition of the old masters without referring to it in her formal language. Venice offers the artist an ideal creative space in the field of tension between the past and the present. In her work, von Gaza poses the question of tradition and identity in painting and, through this position, provokes the discussion about the value of art and society.

Her previous work can be divided into different creative strands. Her main painterly work consists of early works , individual works, thematic work groups, site-specific works and the Veil Paintings series, the best known of which are the Gray Veil Paintings and Red Veil Paintings .

The veil ( Veil ) as an abstract metaphor for transcendence and permeability plays a central role in Gaza's work. Showing by covering up and making visible by covering up as the core gesture of painting are characteristic of the artist's work.

Since 2012 the artist has been painting in the sacred space , especially in projects in the churches of Venice . Since 2013 von Gaza has been painting in various Venetian churches in collaboration with the Curia Patriarchale di Venezia: Chiesa San Fantin (2014), Chiesa San Lio (2015), Cappella Santissima Trinità (2016).

During the 2015 Art Biennale , the Venetian Curia of Gaza commissioned a work grant for the Gussoni Renaissance Chapel of the Church of San Lio. As part of the Beyond the Veil project , the Gussoni Red Veil Paintings Triptych was created on site in this chapel, which is intended to remain permanently in the Renaissance chapel designed by Tullio and Pietro Lombardo around 1479 . The Gussoni Chapel also houses the burial place of the Venetian vedute painter Canaletto .

At the invitation of the Venice Patriarchal Seminary, Gaza presented its Il Nido project . A Pilgrimage towards Equilibrium as part of the Padiglioni Paralleli for the 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2017 in the building complex of the Basilica Santa Maria della Salute . In spring 2019, the installation Il Nido traveled on to the Memorial Church in Berlin .

Awards

  • 2007: Master student in the field of fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Sean Scully .
  • 2015: Contribution to the Gussoni Renaissance Chapel on behalf of the Venetian Curia
  • 2017: Participation in the Padiglioni Paralleli of the Venetian Curia for the 57th Art Biennale

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: Diploma exhibition final class Sean Scully , Academy of Fine Arts Munich , Munich
  • 2007: Annual exhibition , Art Association Traunstein, Traustein
  • 2008: Annual exhibition of the 15th Art Prize , Kunstverein Aichach, Aichach
  • 2009: The Process of Creation , Rich Gallery, London (solo)
  • 2010: Annual editions , Kunstverein München, Munich
  • 2011: Light & Painting , Palazzo Ca 'del Duca, Venice (solo)
  • 2012: Change of position , BayWa, Munich
  • 2013: Crafts and Churches , Crafts Gallery of the Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria in cooperation with the Archbishop's Office of Munich, Carmelite Church , Munich
  • 2013: Spirituality in Painting , Galerie Art Consult, Munich (solo)
  • 2014: Power of Glass , Gustav van Treeck court glass painting , Munich
  • 2015: Beyond the Veil , project with and commissioned work for Curia Patriarcale di Venezia during the 56th Venice Art Biennale, Chiesa San Lio, Venice (solo)
  • 2016/17: Behind the Curtain. Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance. From Titian to Cristo , curated by Beat Wismer and Claudia Blümle , Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
  • 2016: Fabrica Ecclesiae , Museo Diocesano d'Arte Sacra Sant 'Apollonia, San Marco, Venice
  • 2016: Private View Villa by Schulthess-Bodmer , Zurich (solo)
  • 2017: 52nd Art Cologne , Galerie Hans Strelow, Cologne
  • 2017: Summertime: Brüning, Erben, von Gaza, Huidobro, Merschmann, Münch , Galerie Hans Strelow , Düsseldorf
  • 2017: Il Nido. A Pilgrimage towards Equilibrium , project start for Padiglioni Paralleli of the Curia Patriarcale di Venezia and glass work with Berengo Studio, Murano, during the 57th Venice Art Biennale, in the Osservatorio del Seminario Patriarcale at the Basilica della Salute , Punta della Dogana, Venice (solo)
  • 2018: BIAS Biennale Internazionale 2018 , Museo Riso , Capella dell 'Incoronazione , Palermo
  • 2018: Gabriel & Lucifero. The most precious Pigment of Renaissance Venice , Palazzo Contarini Polignac , Venice (solo)
  • 2018: Il Nido in the Basilica Santa Maria della Salute , Venice (solo)
  • 2019: Velvet & Paper , Galerie Biedermann, Munich (solo)
  • 2019: Il Nido in the Gedächtniskirche , Berlin, (solo)
  • 2019: Early Works , Palazzo Martinengo Fortuny , Venice (solo)

Permanent installations

  • since 2015: Gussoni Red Veil Triptych , Gussoni Renaissance Chapel, Chiesa San Lio, Venice

Public collections (selection)

literature

  • Tim Ackermann: Eggs and Eiermann - the work of art "Il Nido" is a guest in the Berlin Memorial Church , Weltkunst June 8, 2019, Berlin / Hamburg 2019.
  • Julian Bruno Vogel: Heaven over Berlin. The installation Il Nido by the German artist Sylke von Gaza stops in the old tower of the Memorial Church in Berlin , Zeitkunst (5/2019), Neu-Isenburg, 2019.
  • A nest for the Memorial Church , Berliner Morgenpost 04.29.2019, Berlin of 2019.
  • Tim Hunter: The nest in the Memorial Church , RBB Evening News , ARD 27.04.2019, Berlin of 2019.
  • Tim Ackermann: Il Nido - Venice's secret nest , Weltkunst December 8, 2017, Berlin / Hamburg 2017.
  • Guido Brivio: Mysterium Coniunctionis. Gabriel & Lucifero by Sylke von Gaza , Venezia & Torino 2017.
  • Alan Jones: "As High as the Eagle" - Sylke from Gaza's installation "Il Nido" in Venice , Venezia 2017.
  • Petra Schaefer: High above the church roofs in Venice. The German artist Sylke von Gaza presents the installation "Il Nido" , Zeitkunst (11/2017), Neu-Isenburg 2017.
  • Irmgard Bernrieder: Homage removed from the gaze , text cluster November 29, 2017, Brüggen 2017.
  • Beat Wismer , Claudia Blümle (ed.): Behind the curtain. Wrapping and unveiling since the Renaissance - from Titian to Christo , with texts by Horst Bredekamp , Georges Didi-Huberman , Wolfgang Kemp , Roland Krischel , Oskar Bätschmann , Lia Bertram, Dortje Fink, Vincent von Frankenberg, Klaus Krüger , Saskia C. Quené, Patrik Reuterswärd , Julia Ryll, Barbara Schnellewald , Beate Söntgen , Victor I. Stoichita and Gerhard Wolf , exhibition catalog Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf , Hirmer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7774-2646-4 .
  • Helga Meister : The curtain is raised in the Ehrenhof , Westdeutsche Zeitung WZ 30/9/2017, Wuppertal, Krefeld, Düsseldorf 2016.
  • Thomas Köster: "Behind the curtain" in the Museum Kunstpalast , Westdeutscher Rundfunk WDR 30/9/2016, Cologne 2016.
  • Tim Ackermann: Venice becomes abstract , Weltkunst 106 (10/2015), Berlin / Hamburg 2015.
  • Gianmatteo Caputo : Beyond the Veil: Red Veil Paintings nella Chiesa di San Lio , press release Uffici Beni Culturali & Turismo della Curia Patriarcale di Venezia UBC, Venezia 2015.
  • Gustav van Treeck (Ed.): Power of Glass, exhibition catalog, Munich 2014.
  • Maurits J. Sinninghe Damsté: Sylke von Gaza's paintings: Sacraments of a Deeper Reality , Groningen-Leeuwarden 2013.
  • Laura Schwarz: Shift work , Architectural Digest AD (10/2013), Munich 2013.
  • Jolanda Drexler: Sylke von Gaza in Conversation with Jolanda Drexler , Artology 2 (2013), Munich 2013.
  • Florian Seidl (Ed.): Annual editions 2010 , Kunstverein München eV, Munich 2010.
  • Steven Rich (Ed.): Sylke von Gaza: Red Veil Paintings. The Process of Creation , London 2009.
  • Petra Giloy-Hirtz: From the Gray to the Colorful. Interview with Sylke von Gaza , Munich 2008.
  • Martin H. Schmidt: The veils of Sylke von Gaza - Who is afraid of gray, white and red? , Kronberg 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Giloy-Hirtz (2008): From the Gray to the Colorful.
  2. ↑ a b c Giloy-Hirtz (2008): From the Gray to the Colorful & Drexler (2013): Sylke von Gaza in Conversation .
  3. ↑ a b matriculation database. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on July 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Helga Meister: The curtain is raised in the courtyard. Westdeutsche Zeitung WZ, September 29, 2016, accessed on August 5, 2017 .
  5. ^ Schmidt (2007): The veils of Sylke von Gaza & Giloy-Hirtz (2008): From the Gray to the Colorful & Drexler (2013): Sylke von Gaza in Conversation & Sinninghe Damsté (2013): Sacraments of a Deeper Reality .
  6. ↑ a b Martin H. Schmidt: Die veil der Sylke von Gaza - Who is afraid of gray, white and red? 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b Sinninghe Damsté (2013): Sacraments of a Deeper Reality.
  8. ↑ a b Beat Wismer, Claudia Blümle (ed.): Behind the curtain . Hirmer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7774-2646-4 , pp. 256 - 259 ( hirmerverlag.de ).
  9. ↑ a b Ackermann (2015), Venice becomes abstract , p. 111.
  10. ↑ a b c d e Gianmatteo Caputo: Beyond the Veil: Red Veil Paintings nella Chiesa di San Lio. Uffici Beni Culturali & Turismo della Curia Patriarcale di Venezia UBC, 2015, accessed on July 18, 2017 (Italian).
  11. ^ Tullio Lombardo: Pietà with Saints. Save Venice Inc., 2002, accessed August 17, 2017 .
  12. ^ Pietro Lombardo: Gussoni Chapel. Save Venice Inc., 2002, accessed August 17, 2017 .
  13. ↑ a b c Gianmatteo Caputo: Sylke von Gaza: "Il Nido. A Pilgrimage towards Equilibrium" presso la Basilica della Salute, Padiglioni Paralleli 2017. Curia Patriarcale di Venezia, 2017, accessed on August 25, 2017 (Italian).
  14. ↑ a b Padiglioni Paralleli alla Biennale 2017. Curia Patriarcale di Venezia, 2017, accessed on July 22, 2017 (Italian).
  15. ↑ Ackermann (2017): Il Nido - Venice's secret nest & Bernrieder (2017): Homage to the gaze & Jones (2017): “As High as the Eagle” & Schaefer (2017): High above the church roofs of Venice.
  16. ↑ a b Ackermann (2019): Eier und Eiermann & Vogel (2019): Himmel über Berlin & Berliner Morgenpost (2019): What is there in the Memorial Church? , A Nest for the Gedächtniskirche & Jäger (2019): The Nest in the Gedächtniskirche .
  17. ↑ a b The Process of Creation. Steven Rich, 2009, accessed July 12, 2017 .
  18. ^ Marcello Brusegan: I palazzi di Venezia . Newton & Compton, Roma 2007, ISBN 978-88-541-0820-2 .
  19. ^ Crafts and Churches. Gallery Handwerk in the Karmeliterkirche Munich, 2013, accessed on July 22, 2017 .
  20. ↑ a b Power of Glass. Hofglasmalerei Gustav van Treeck, 2013, accessed on July 22, 2017 (German). ( PDF 1.2 MB catalog )
  21. ^ Exhibition "Behind the Curtain. Wrapping and Uncovering since the Renaissance. From Titian to Christ". Museum Kunstpalast, accessed on August 17, 2017 .
  22. ^ Fabrica Ecclesiae. Venezia Patriarcale Curia, 2016, accessed August 17, 2017 (Italian).
  23. ↑ Hans Strelow: Summertime: Brüning, Erben, from Gaza, Huidobro, Merschmann, Münch. Artnet, 2017, accessed July 1, 2017 .
  24. ^ Adriano Berengo: Berengo Studio. Berengo Studio 1988, accessed August 25, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Artisti BIAS 2018. BIAS Institute, accessed October 1, 2018 (Italian).
  26. ^ Gabriel & Lucifero. Palazzo Contarini Polignac, April 11, 2017, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  27. ^ Project "Il Nido", Basilica Santa Maria della Salute, Venezia 2017/18. Sylke von Gaza, October 1, 2017, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  28. ^ Sylke von Gaza - Velvet & Paper. Artnet, February 20, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  29. ^ Sylke of Gaza | Exhibition "Early Works" at Palazzo Martinengo Fortuny for Venice Art Biennale, Venezia 2019. Sylke von Gaza, May 1, 2019, accessed on May 19, 2020 (British English).
  30. ↑ Collezione. Museo Diocesano d'Arte Sacra Sant 'Apollonia, accessed August 25, 2017 (Italian).
  31. ↑ Pinacoteca. Seminario Patriarcale di Venezia, accessed August 25, 2017 (Italian).
  32. ↑ Tim Ackermann: Eggs and Eiermann. Weltkunst, June 8, 2019, accessed May 19, 2020 .
  33. ↑ Julian Bruno Vogel: Heaven over Berlin. Zeitkunst, May 1, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  34. ↑ A nest for the Memorial Church. Berliner Morgenpost, April 19, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  35. ↑ Tim Jäger: The Nest in the Memorial Church. RBB Abendschau / ARD, April 27, 2019, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  36. ↑ Tim Ackermann: Il Nido - Venice's secret nest. Weltkunst, December 8, 2017, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  37. ↑ Guido Brivio: Mysterium Coniunctionis. Gabriel & Lucifero by Sylke from Gaza. July 1, 2017, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  38. ^ Alan Jones: "As High as the Eagle" - Sylke from Gaza's installation "Il Nido" in Venice. March 1, 2018, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  39. ↑ Petra Schaefer: High above the church roofs of Venice. Zeitkunst, November 1, 2017, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  40. ↑ Irmgard Bernrieder: Homage removed from the view. Textcluster, November 29, 2017, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  41. ↑ Thomas Köster: "Behind the curtain" in the Museum Kunstpalast. Westdeutscher Rundfunk WDR, September 30, 2016, accessed on July 22, 2017 .
  42. ↑ Tim Ackermann: Venice becomes abstract. Weltkunst, October 1, 2015, accessed on May 20, 2020 .
  43. ↑ Maurits J. Sinninghe Damsté: Sylke von Gaza's paintings: Sacraments of a Deeper Reality. March 1, 2013, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  44. ↑ Jolanda Drexler: Sylke von Gaza in Conversation with Jolanda Drexler. Artology, February 1, 2013, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  45. ↑ Petra Giloy-Hirtz: From the Gray to the Colorful. Interview with Sylke von Gaza. April 1, 2008, accessed May 20, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Gaza, Sylke von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gazes called Gaza, Sylke von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg