Tamara Nickel

Tamara Nickel , also Tamara Gomille (born April 2, 1971 in Northeim ) is a German artist and graphic designer .

Career

Nickel grew up in Gieboldehausen , a community in the district of Göttingen . After graduating from high school in 1990, she first studied communication design at the HAWK Hildesheim . One of her main focuses was photography . After nine semesters, she completed her studies there with a diploma. Her thesis included a complete advertising campaign for a fictional beauty line for women. What was unusual was the choice of the first examiner to design an advertising campaign with photography under the illustrator and artist Paul König . Even before studying, Tamara Nickel dealt with painting and drawing techniques, which she continued during and after her studies. Alongside her studies, she mainly worked on freelance works in Paul Kunofski's printing workshop at the university. During her studies, Tamara Nickel opened her first exhibition in 1991 in her hometown Gieboldehausen and a second in 1993 in Gieboldehausen Castle .

Years of artistic style finding and development followed with further exhibitions and participations, initially in the area around Duderstadt and Göttingen and later in various cities in Germany. Due to work, she moved from one city to the next within Germany several times. In 2006, Nickel set up painting and design, first in Hamburg , then in Wedel. In 2008 she met Arne Lösekann and organized an exhibition with him in 2009 with other artists in his producer's gallery. In 2009 she became a member of the Künstlergilde Kreis Pinneberg e. V. From 2010 to 2012 Tamara Nickel took over the chairmanship of this old artists' association and led it through the sixtieth anniversary year. In November 2013 she was accepted into the Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg (BBK Hamburg), in which she has been a member of the board since July 2015, in order to support the interests of artists in Hamburg. In 2016, Nickel received the Art Prize of the City of Wedel in the Museum of the Ernst Barlach Society in Hamburg . Nickel has been exhibiting regularly in solo and group exhibitions since 1991.

She has been married since 2000, has two children and lives and works in Wedel , Schleswig-Holstein.

Artistic work

The focus of Tamara Nickel's work is essentially the creation of collages in mixed media on canvas with texts and image fragments from newspapers and magazines as well as drawings.

Many of the works deal with current affairs. She worked through things that happen every day in her collages. The focus is mostly on the topic of freedom - in many ways. Freedom that is threatened by influences such as war, terror, flight and a change of power. Freedom in communication that is monitored, restricted and falsified. “As an artist, I can deal with these topics in my own way. I can document current events from yesterday, today and tomorrow, collect and highlight various topics with the collages - as a warning or out of satisfaction. ”She supplements the political topics with everyday, social questions and experiences from the world of work and family and relationships different people and situations.

In recent years, some works have been commissioned. Tamara Nickel's works are owned by private individuals and companies.

Awards

2016: Wedel Art Prize

Exhibitions (selection)

2009: 4th regional show of artists, Landdrostei Pinneberg
2010: Horizonte, Reepschlägerhaus, Wedel
2011: The color blue Artists' guild in the district of Pi., Langes Tannen Museum , Glückstadt Castle
2011: 8th Culturpreis Meldorf Dithmarscher Landesmuseum , Meldorf
2013: Encounters - Relationships Stadtmuseum Wedel
2014: POSITION, Factory of the Arts Hamburg
2016: Wedeler Art Prize , Ernst Barlach Museum , Wedel.
2016: Kunstverein Stade
2018: Reepschlägerhaus Wedel
2019: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom Country Office Northern Germany, Lübeck and Country Office Lower Saxony / Bremen
2020: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Lower Saxony / Bremen country office

literature

POSITION. 2014, documentation of the exhibition and the forum position. 2014 published by the Federal Association of Visual Artists, 2014, ISBN 978-3-944173-92-4
Faces. The exhibition for the competition. Catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthaus Stade.

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Nickel, Tamara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gomille, Tamara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2nd 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Northeim

[1] Wedel Art Prize

[2] Panta rhei - Everything flows

[3] The color blue

[4] Provision house Glückstadt

[5] 8th Meldorf Culture Prize

[6] Encounters - Relationships

[7] POSITION , BBK Hamburg

[8] Factory of the Arts

[9] s

[10] Art Association Stade

[11] yesterday | today | tomorrow

[12] Reepschlägerhaus

[13] Delimited | Excluded | Limitless . Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom