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DAYDREAMING
ATHENSTAEDT - KROHN - VON GROTE
05 February - 26 March 2022
ARTES Berlin presents for the first time in the exhibition "DAYDREAMING" works by Marie Athenstaedt, Gisela Krohn, and Christina von Grote. They reflect the environment and landscape in imagined, experienced, or remembered motifs and compositions in various ways.
The artists engage intensively and consistently with the medium of painting and its inherent materiality, processing and awakening both external and internal moods. The resulting works seem to visualise worlds of feeling within landscapes in various degrees of abstraction.
Gisela Krohn studied painting at the Kunsthochschule in Berlin from 1995 to 2001. The tension between nature and humanity is at the centre of the artist's work. In her impressive landscape paintings, she succeeds in making the beauty of nature as well as its threat by humans tangible. Her impressions of nature are far from mere realism. Rather, Krohn blurs reality and fantasy in her mode of depiction, sometimes pushing the boundaries of abstraction and surrealism and showing her view of nature as radiant and almost idyllic at times and dark and apocalyptic at other times.
In 2018, she initiated the exhibition project "Forest Wolf Wilderness", in which she not only artistically but also interdisciplinary explores the significance of nature for humans. "I try to represent time, experience and spatiality of the forest." Krohn lives and works in Tutzing, Germany.
Marie Athenstaedt studied painting at the Dresden University of Fine Arts from 2008 to 2016. Natural phenomena serve as a source of inspiration for the young artist: During numerous travels, she collects impressions that she incorporates into her often monochromatic or duochromatic paintings or drawings. Nature in all its facets and colours finds its way into her mostly large-scale abstract works.
The imagery seems to be surrounded by a mystical aura - supposedly ghostly, surreal clouds and mists are depicted on the backgrounds as nebulous structures. The studio becomes an alchemical kitchen, simmering and steaming. The exhibited works are from the series "Substance" and "I'm wired to the world, that's how I know everything." Athenstaedt lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.
Christina von Grote, born in Göttingen, Germany, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.
In her works, breaks and contrasts in colour grounds are combined and connected by subtle and sensitive accents. The works are inspired by the movement of concrete art. Christina von Grote's oeuvre has a wide range and complexity. It is the expression of never-ending journeys in search of imaginary landscapes.
The artist creates colour spaces through the arrangement, overlap, and layering of colour grounds, contrasting with lines and stripes. The composition of the image follows an ordering system, the search for perfection unfolds on a discursive path between harmony, destruction, and reconstruction. Contrasts of light and shadow, pause and movement create a perspective expanse. The artist lives and works in Hamburg.
Anne Böddeker – Gallery Exhibition "TREASURE CHESTS"
05 March - 02 April 2022
ARTES Berlin presents in the gallery exhibition "TREASURE CHESTS" more than 15 works by artist Anne Böddeker. In her oeuvre, the painter, born in 1966, focuses on the vastness of the sea, people on the beach, the play of light, and the longing for the perfection of nature. These are the themes to which the artist devotes herself in her oil paintings.
Anne Böddeker explores the subject of the sea in all its facets, from the Pacific to the North Sea. The pictures depict turbulent water, breaking waves, as well as moments of contemplation in a foggy seascape, always reflecting the silence and emotions of human existence.
One is always inclined to think of the works of Romantic painters like Carl Gustav Carus or Caspar David Friedrich, but Böddeker transfers this romanticising view of the landscape into the context of nature conservation and the present.
For 20 years, the artist has regularly exhibited in solo exhibitions in Germany and Finland, and many of her works are in private collections. She lives and works in Hamburg and Schashagen on the Baltic Sea.
"In my paintings, I am always fascinated by the intensity and contradictions of the sea, the moment between beauty and threat, the transience of the moment, and how we as humans find ourselves in it."
