Tinka Bechert

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Tinka Bechert at her retrospective / exhibition in the Kunsthalle Brennabor , Brandenburg an der Havel, 2013

Tinka Bechert (born March 14, 1975 in Berlin ) is a visual artist living in Berlin and Ireland .

Live and act

Tinka Bechert grew up in Berlin and received her first artistic education at home, which has been shaped by several generations of artists and scientists. The relationship with the Berlin painter couple Sabine and Reinhold Lepsius , the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius and the painter Max Ernst were not only considered an inspiration to the artist from an early age, but later also a material for her artistic projects. Her keen interest in science and architecture was awakened by her father and scientist (physics & bionics) Dietrich Wolfgang Bechert and her uncle Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz (architect). After graduating from Beethoven High School and traveling long distances in Central America and Western Europe, Tinka Bechert studied art in the north-west of Ireland, where she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Technology in Sligo in 2003 with the highest distinction. Seven years later she added the Master of Visual Arts Practice at the Institute of Art & Design in Dublin, Ireland.

The visual artist's work focuses on painting, collage and installation. Even artists' books are among her expressions; In 2004 she realized her first literary project ( Chinese knife ) with Edition Mariannenpresse Berlin and the writer Eckardt Momber . Further connections of her work with literary forms of expression emerged with the writers Emil Mündlein ( Eine Spur im Strom ) and the Berlin poet Björn Kuhligk , who deals with Bechert's work in various texts. In addition to numerous international exhibitions of her painting, the artist has carried out ambitious research and science projects, including with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) and the Hanse Science College in Delmenhorst. She has received numerous project grants and grants from the Irish Arts Council Of Ireland, such as a residence grant at the Banff Center (2007), a travel grant for her triangulation project with a stay in Egypt (2010) and a six-month grant Spark Residency Program of the County Leitrim Arts Office, Ireland (2016/17). In 2016, Tinka Bechert's works were shortlisted for the Derwent Art Prize and the Jackson Art Prize in England. She received an Art Prize in Ireland in 2017 for Outstanding Achievement in Art.

Tinka Bechert's works are represented in public and private collections in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Austria, Ireland and Great Britain, for example in the Office of Public Works, Ireland, in the Berlin State Library , in the National Art Library of the Victoria & Albert Museum , London, and Tate Britain , London. She lives and works in Ireland and Berlin.

Publications

  • Künstlerbuch / Artists' Book: Chinamesser , Bilder Tinka Bechert / Texts Eckhardt Momber, 120. Printed by Edition Mariannenpresse, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-926433-40-X
  • Künstlerbuch / Artists' Book: Eine Spur im Strom , Graphics & Pictures by Tinka Bechert / Story by Emil Mündlein, Quetsche, Verlag für Buchkunst, Witzwort 2011. ISBN 978-3-939307-34-1
  • Tinka Bechert: Triangulations, an exhibition , in: Karl Richard Lepsius. The founder of German Egyptology. Edited by Verena M. Lepper and Ingelore Hafemann, Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2012, pp. 220–250. ISBN 978-3-86599-176-8
  • Monograph (catalog of works): Tinka Bechert: Of Painting and Other Adventures 2003–2013 / Of Painting and Other Adventures 2003–2013 , Art In Flow Verlag, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-938457-15-3
  • Tinka Bechert: Triangulations, an exhibition and research project , in: Artifacts: Knowledge is art - art is knowledge. Reflections and practices of scientific-artistic encounters, ed. Parzinger, H., Aue, S., Stock, G., transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, pp. 149–172. ISBN 978-3-8376-2450-2
  • Art in Progress, Science meets fiction , publication by the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst 2016
  • Fresh Paint Magazine, No. 12/2016, Tinka Bechert, pp. 38–40. ISSN  2469-4150
  • BLUE. Magazine, category: Dichter dran , picture by Tinka Bechert: Eisbär , with a poem by Björn Kuhligk: What the bear says , Art magazine, No. 12, summer 2016, p. 30.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • New Work , Custom House Studios, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland (2004)
  • Lineage , Sligo Art Gallery, Ireland (2004)
  • Return Trip , The Other Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada (2007)
  • New Paintings , Summit Fine Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada (2008)
  • Explorations , painting by Tinka Bechert, Galerie Ardizon, Bregenz, Austria (2008)
  • New Painting , Gallery 21, Braunschweig (2009)
  • Triangulations , Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2011/12)
  • From Naumburg to the Blue Nile , exhibition contribution, Stadtmuseum Naumburg (2012)
  • On Painting and Other Adventures, 2003–2013 , retrospective, Kunsthalle Brennabor , Brandenburg an der Havel (2013)
  • Synesthesia; 25 subjects , room installation at the Hanse-Wissenschafts-Kolleg, Delmenhorst (2014)
  • Shadow of Ourselves , Priors PLM & Spark Residency Program & Arts Office & Leitrim County Council, Ireland (2016)
  • Tinka Bechert & Nils Kasiske , Galerie Gerken, Berlin, Germany (2016)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • Künstlerhof Blankenfelde, Berlin (2003)
  • Iontas, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Ireland (2005)
  • King House, Invited Artists, Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon, Ireland (2007)
  • Skew Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2008)
  • LSC Open, Leitrim Sculpture Center, Manorhamilton, Leitrim, Ireland (2008)
  • Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2008)
  • Posted Project 4: SKART Artists Collaboration, Cork, Ireland (2009)
  • EIGSE, Carlow Arts Festival, Ireland (2009)
  • RUA RED, Summer Show, Dublin, Ireland (2009)
  • Anonymous draftsman , Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin (2009)
  • Berlin Art Projects, Berlin (2010)
  • An Exchange with Sol LeWitt , Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MOCA), Massachusetts, USA (2011)
  • Vacation in Berlin , Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin (2011)
  • The cuts are allright , Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin (2011)
  • Before today is tomorrow , IAC Berlin (2011)
  • House , Het Wilde Weeten, Rotterdam, Holland (2012)
  • Working.Drawing , The Dock Arts Center, Leitrim, Ireland (2012)
  • Surveying , Kunstverein Neukölln, T27, Berlin (2012)
  • The Model Arts Center, Sligo, Ireland (2015)
  • Derwent Art Prize Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London, UK (2016)
  • Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, UK (2017)
  • Claremorris Open Exhibiton , 40th Anniversary Exhibit, curated by Tom Morton, Claremorris, Ireland (2017)
  • Fight or Flight , New York Painting Center, NY, USA (2017)
  • Best of galerie gerken , Galerie Gerken, Berlin (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute of Technology in Sligo
  2. ^ Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art & Design in Dublin
  3. ↑ Edition Mariannenpresse Berlin ( Memento of the original dated February 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.literaturhaus-berlin.de
  4. ↑ Björn Kuligk: At the painter , in: ders .: Großraumtaxi: Berlin scenes. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2014, pp. 63–65. ISBN 978-3-95732-017-9
  5. ^ The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  6. ^ Arts Council Of Ireland
  7. ^ Derwent Art Prize
  8. ^ Jackson Art Prize
  9. ↑ Official Website - The Office of Public Works
  10. ^ National Art Library
personal data
SURNAME Bechert, Tinka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin