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
ENTWINED
WATERCOLOUR AND INK ON TINTED PAPER
107 CM × 76 CM
2012
BENEATH THE SKIES
CHARCOAL, WATERCOLOUR, INK ON TINTED PAPER
42 CM × 30 CM
2012
COMBATIVE ANXIOUS ANTICIPATION
BLACK INK ON TINTED HANDMADE PAPER
65 CM × 50,5 CM
2011
THREE
CHARCOAL, WATERCOLOUR, INK ON TINTED PAPER
65 CM × 50,5 CM
2012
LADEN
CHARCOAL AND WATERCOLOUR ON HANDMADE
INDIAN PAPER
77 CM × 55 CM
2011
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