ANGELIKA VON SCHWEDES

ABOUT

BIOGRAPHY

 

1950             born in Berlin
1973 – 79   studied at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

1981 – 83   grant from the Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft

1991 – 93   taught at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

1998 – 99   taught at the Freie Kunstschule Berlin

today           lives and works as a freelance painter in Berlin

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

 

1982            Galerie Hartwig & Bethke, Berlin

1983              Galerie Jeroch, Hannover

1984              Galerie IX, Berlin

1986              Colloquium Galerie, Berlin

1987              Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg

1991              Galerie Bodo Niemann, Berlin

1995              Galerie Rudolf Springer, Berlin

1998              Decorator for a film by Margarethe von Trotta

1999              Galerie Dalloul, Paris

2000              Kunstverein Zweibrücken

2001              Galerie Linneborn, Berlin

2002              Fondation Shoman, Amman, Jordan

2004              Galerie am Dom, Brandenburg

2007              Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst, Schloss Detmold

2008              Galerie Leo. Coppi, Berlin

2009              Galerie Jürgensen, Oetjendorf

2010              Kunstkabinett im Turm, Grünstadt-Sausenheim

2010              Galerie Parterre, Berlin

2012              Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut

 

LUST FOR COLOUR

AND THE DEMISE

OF WORLDS

WORK

HUNTED

 

OIL ON CANVAS

130 CM × 81 CM

2010

RED SKY

 

OIL ON CANVAS

195 CM × 146 CM

2012

“She composes her oil paintings with powerful,

confident, broad, clear, sensuous brushstrokes,

with beguilingly wild and fresh colours, pervaded

by a light that seems to have come into being of

its own accord in order to talk about things that

are vibrantly present in their rawness, unified

with the body of the world.”

 KHALIDA SAID – BEIRUT

THE SECRET OF LIFE (LARGE WAVE)

 

OIL ON CANVAS

146 CM × 195 CM

2011

BLUE LIGHT

 

OIL ON CANVAS

146 CM × 97 CM

2005

“With this confidently controlled visual language she shows

human beings protectively embedded in nature, but also

existentially threatened and endangered by it; she shows

the comforting transformative power of nature in its coming

into being and passing away, and in the end understands

dying and death as an indissoluble part of life. Because this

gift bestowed by creation is so precious in all its pain and

sorrow, in all its joys and delights, Angelika von Schwedes

has cultivated a stirring lust for colour with which she can

even depict the demise of worlds. Can we imagine a more

relevant painting in our time?”

 JÖRN MERKERT

THE SEDUCTION (ADAM AND EVE)

 

OIL ON CANVAS

100 CM × 81 CM

2010

LADEN

 

CHARCOAL AND WATERCOLOUR ON HANDMADE
INDIAN PAPER

77 CM × 55 CM

2011

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