Valentina Pavlova

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Garden of Remembrance, Paul-Löbe-Haus Berlin: Nazi child euthanasia / installation photos of children and blooming dwarf apple trees, photographed by Nike Gerochristodoulou

Valentina Pavlova (* 1949 in Kemerovo , former USSR , today Russia ) is a German painter , draftsman , sculptor and installation artist . She has lived in Germany since 1962.

Life

Cycladic idols - search for clues , photographed by Nike Gerochristodoulou

From 1970 to 1972 Pavlova studied photography at the Staatliche Folkwangschule Essen , and from 1979 to 1983 painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1984 to 1986 she was a lecturer at the Alanus University for Art and Society in Alfter and from 2000 to 2002 at the design academy berlin, SRH University for Communication and Design .

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Writings on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, photographed by Franz Fischer

Pavlova's work includes painting, sculpture, drawing and photography, which are implemented as individual works or in series, but also in projects in public space that are carried out in an interdisciplinary way and presented as installations.

In her works, Pavlova deals in a wide variety of means with the visuality of signs (typefaces) as well as the archeology of abstract forms (from outside to inside) and the figure (idol cycles). The intrinsic relationship between art and history is a central part of her work. Here, fragments of historical memory are used as a driving force in an artistic process that unfolds in the search for clues.

This is how the large-scale project Kinderhimmel emerged, which Pavlova has been continuously developing since 1990 as an open, unfinished work (art-historically “work-in-progress”) and which synthesizes its diverse approaches.

Awards and prizes (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2011 - Garden of Remembrance, Reichstag Berlin, Paul-Löbe-Haus Berlin
  • 2009 - Garden of the Future Tree Circle Monument, Cologne
  • 2008 - Bonn Science Center: Valentina Pavlova meets August Sander
  • 2002 - Scholarship from the Foundation Returning, DGB Berlin
  • 2000 to 2002 - Installation Garden of Remembrance / Witnesses of Remembrance, Rheinische Kliniken, Bonn
  • 1998 - Installation of the Rhineland Regional Council , Cologne
  • 1997 - Installation Kinderhimmel I, Kunstverein Bonn, Bon direct
  • 1996 - project trans tempora, Künstlerforum Bonn
  • 1995 - Valentina Pavlova pictures and works on paper, Galerie Pudelko, Bonn (shown intermittently from 1995)
  • 1994 - Kunstmuseum Bonn - Art Prize of the City of Bonn

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bundestag.de: Memorial Sessions and Special Events (PDF file, p. 6; accessed on February 3, 2016)
  2. ↑ general-anzeiger-bonn.de: A mix of art and original little things (accessed on February 3, 2016)

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personal data
SURNAME Pavlova, Valentina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, sculptor and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemerovo , Soviet Union