BRIGITTE SIEBENEICHLER
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BRIGITTE SIEBENEICHLER
BIOGRAPHY
Born
Gundersdorf, Czech Republic
Residence
Munich and Rottach-Egern, Germany
Education
Study of painting in Vienna with Professors Fritz Itzinger and Ulrich Gansert
Study of painting in Munich with Professor Thomas Bechinger
Study of painting with Professors Markus Lüpertz, Jerry Zeniuk, Günther Förg and Erwin Bohatsch at the Art Academy Bad Reichenhall
Study at the ‘Hoke-Werkhaus’ of Professor Giselbert Hoke in Grafenstein in Carinthia
Member of the Kunstverein Rosenheim
Artist Statement
“I started painting non-objectively 15 years ago during my studies with Thomas Bechinger, who was teaching in the studio projects at the time. As a student of Bechinger, my focus was on colour field painting, the roots of my non-objective pictorial art. At the moment I am working intensively on gestural painting and in the future I would like to deepen my work on this spontaneous painterly element of abstraction.
The forms in my paintings are generated from experiences I have made in my life. I translate these into gestures in my paintings. This can happen consciously or unconsciously, the latter being more the case with me. Sometimes I can no longer read what those forms tell, and I believe that the viewer of my paintings interprets them later from his own perspective, his own way of looking at things. He compares the forms with his own experiences. When I start a painting, I don’t have an exact idea in advance of what it will eventually look like. When I paint abstractly or gesturally, I do not work conceptually.
The character of the material is essential, the material is part of the art, it is what it is made of. Every medium has a special quality. Burlap or a very coarse canvas swallow the paint, I have to bear that in mind … Certain papers can cause the paint to lie thick and dense because of the smoothness of their surface. In this case, I also process paint in this way: I scratch the paint mass and can thus structure it. There are also papers that are very absorbent, in which case it’s the other way round. I mix my colours myself with pigments I have selected. Recently I have also been working technically according to the teachings of the Austrian painter Giselbert Hoke, who experimented with distemper for decades and used it to create large-format abstract compositions on paper.”
Brigitte Siebeneichler.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021
-LEIDENSCHAFTEN, Seeforum Rottach-Egern, Germany (together with Günter Unbescheid, photographer), 29.Aug – 5.Sept 2021
2019
-Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Spektrum, Karlsruhe, Germany
2018
-Über die Überlieferung hinaus“, Galerie 20/21, Munich, Germany
-Paper Positions Munich, Art Fair, with Marianne Schliwinski at Galerie Spektrum, Karlsruhe, Germany
-‘Meisterklasse’ (Masterclass) of Markus Lüpertz, 12.Sept 2018 – 16. Jan. 2019,
Government of Upper Bavaria, Munich, Germany
2017
-Tegernseer Kunstausstellung, Tegernsee, Germany
2016
-Tegernseer Kunstausstellung, Tegernsee, Germany
-Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany
2015
-Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany
2014
-Kunst im Abriß, curated exhibition at HDI-Haus Munich, Germany
2013
-Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany
-The Metropolitain Art Fair Munich, Contemporary Art Experience, Munich, Germany
2011
-Autoren-Galerie, Munich, Bilder-Briefe-Noten, Germany
-Munich Contempo, Munich, Germany
2010
-With Space Gallery, Coinciding at the Wall, Peking, China
2009
-Galerie Schrade, Schloss Mochental, zweinulleins, Germany
2008
-Autoren-Galerie, Bilder-Briefe-Noten, Munich, Germany
2006
Orangerie im Englischen Garten, Malerei des Augenblickes, Munich, Germany
2004
-Galerie Roncka, Munich, Germany
-munich art gallery, Lebenswandler, Munich, Germany
2003/04
-Autoren-Galerie, Bilder-Briefe-Noten, Munich, Germany
2003
-Kultfabrik Munich, Ausblicke, Germany
-Thera-Ohm, Bilder aus dem Englischen Garten, Munich, Germany
2002
-Kunst im Ort, Hilgertshausen, Vom Impressionismus bis zur Moderne, Germany
2000-01
-Kunstpark Ost, Munich, Werktag, Germany
2001-04
-Burggalerie Obernberg, Austria
1999-2000
-Burggalerie Obernberg, Impressionen vom Englischen Garten, Austria
1999
-Atelier-Galerie 24, Bilder aus Italien, Munich, Germany
MEDIA – PUBLICATIONS
2006 Exhibition catalogue for Orangerie Munich: Malerei des Augenblicks, Munich, introduction by Gisela Prokop
2010 Exhibition catalogue: Coinciding at the Wall, Whith Space Gallery Beijing
2010 in: Vernissage – Das Magazin für aktuelles Ausstellungsgeschehen, December 2010, no. 296, p. 73
2011 in: Linea Futura, Spring 2011, Brigitte Siebeneichler – Land Art , p. 16f
2012 in: Zweinulleins, Exhibition catalogue Galerie Schrade – Schloss Mochenthal, p. 11, p. 78-85, 2009
2013 in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Barbara Szymanski: „Im Rhababerland“, September 2013
2016 in: Trend Guide Home, „Farben für Emotionen, Linien für Expression“, October 2016
2016 Catalogue (monography): „Klang der Farbe, Kraft der Linie“, Munich, 2016
2017 in: Münchner Merkur, „Tegernseer Kunstausstellung: Viel Neues zu entdecken“, 17. September 2017
2017 in: Kulturbegegnungen, „Poesie der Farbe“, Text: Ines Wagner, May 2017
PRESS
2021 Münchner Merkur 31. Aug 2021 : Ausstellung Brigitte Siebeneichler und Günter Unbescheid zeigen “Leidenschaften” (author: Alexandra Korimorth)
