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Gisela Krohn ( born October 17, 1966 in Cologne ) is a German painter. She lives and works at Lake Starnberg in Tutzing and in Berlin.

Life
From 1982 to 1984 she attended the technical college for design in Cologne. This was followed by assistant stage design at the Theater im Bauturm with Andrew Hippe Davis and an internship in screen printing at the Engels Gallery. In 1987 she moved to Berlin. After working as an assistant in various theater, including the Hebbel Theater and the Theater am Ufer (Berlin), she trained as a theater painter at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin from 1991 to 1995. Her work at the theater had a lasting influence on her later artistic career, especially in dealing with large formats and various painting techniques. Immediately afterwards, she studied painting at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee from 1995 to 2001, first with Werner Liebmann and then with Hanns Schimansky. In 2000 she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. It was there that she created her large-format series about avenues – one of the recurring motifs in her work. The exhibition: dans le jardin de mon ami was created in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and the École des Beaux-Arts. In 2001 she received her diploma from the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee.

Work
Krohn's central motifs are forests, avenues and large-format landscapes that move between abstraction and naturalism. The focus of Krohn's work thus lies in the artistic capture of nature. Krohn's works are not concerned with depicting external nature as it presents itself to the senses. The nature that Krohn captures in her paintings is rather a predominantly mentally grasped nature in which ideal principles such as form and shape dominate. Beyond the usual separation of spirit and nature or culture and nature, her works with this approach are concerned with working out the inner value of nature through an heightened form of seeing. The nature viewed in this way shows mystical-utopian traits, but without negating the given nature in its reality. "My art is emotional and conceptual," says the artist herself. [1] Characteristic of her work is a complex interplay of light and shadow that creates moods and rhythm. The painting technique is oil on canvas or ink, and watercolor on paper. Krohn made several trips to the Victoria Falls in Africa. In 2012 she exhibited her works about the waterfalls in the DSV-Kunstkontor of the German Savings Banks Associationin Stuttgart. Krohn also worked on various feature films and as a theater painter, including for Robert Wilson's Leonce and Lena at the Berliner Ensemble, and as a set painter for the film Rembrandt, directed by Charles Matton.

Project: Wald.Wolf.Wildnis
Krohn has been curating the exhibition project Wald.Wolf.Wildnis since 2018, which she initiated herself. The project is committed to bringing out the intrinsic value of nature in the diversity of its aspects with artistic means. The aim is to show that nature has a depth dimension in which spirit and nature are not opposed to each other, but rather together form a comprehensive whole. The fact that art is particularly suitable for not dissecting nature into individual aspects, but for presenting it in its entirety, is to be made visible in the exhibitions. The exhibition project is embedded in a program in which not only artists but also scientists from fields such as biology, philosophy, forest science, literature and cultural studies participate. In addition to the interdisciplinarity, the international orientation of the project is of particular importance. At the center of the project is the figure of the wolf, which already had mythological significance in antiquity. The attempt to reintegrate wolves into the European cultural landscape could become a touchstone for how serious we really are about protecting the nature that surrounds us and sustains our lives. The wolf appears to the participating artists to be particularly suitable as a paradigm for the intrinsic value of nature, as it does not subordinate itself to humans and, through its mere presence, as it were, claims a coexistence of humans and nature. Although the wolf almost never attacks a human being, the primal fears relating to it are unjustified in the present day. The wolf's mere existence prompts people today to reconsider their own position in nature. Coexistence - especially when it is uncomfortable - represents the real challenge, because wolves and humans are very similar. In the context of the ecological crisis, one of the vital tasks of human beings is to understand that they are also only a part of nature. The wild and original vitality of the human being, as reflected by the wolf, should also serve as an impulse in the artistic works to transcend our current way of life.

Solo exhibitions

 * 2019: Galerie Wittenbrink, München: „Lichtblick“, Ausstellungsdauer 9. Mai bis 29. Juni 2019
 * 2018: Von Fraunberg Art Gallery, Düsseldorf: „Das Ende der Nacht“
 * 2017: Ev. Akademie Tutzing: „Blaues Land und Großstadtlärm“ Präsentation Natur und Kunst
 * 2017: Galerie Biesenbach, Köln
 * 2016: Galerie Villa Köppe, Berlin: „Wald als emotionale Landschaft“
 * 2015: Galerie Frey, Salzburg, Österreich: „Reflections“
 * 2015: Galerie Biesenbach, Köln: „Rutengänger im Stillen“
 * 2014: Galerie Frey, Salzburg, Österreich
 * 2014: Galerie Art Affair, Regensburg
 * 2013: ARD-Hauptstadtstudio, Berlin
 * 2013: Galerie Wittenbrink, München: „Open secret“, Einzelausstellung mit Katalog
 * 2012: Hubertus Melsheimer Kunsthandel, Köln: „100 Jahre Landschaft“
 * 2012: DSV-Kunstkontor Stuttgart: „My memories are like water“, Bilder vom Victoria Fall, Zimbabwe Afrika
 * 2009: Kunstamt Berlin-Friedrichshain: „Hinter dem Liebnitzsee“
 * 2009: Galerie Wittenbrink, München: „Rasende Stille“
 * 2006: Audi-Forum Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

 * 2020/21: Neue Galerie im Haus Benda, Bitburg: „Wald.Wool.Wildnis“, 4. Oktober 2020 bis 31. Januar 2021
 * 2018: Galerie Rother Winter, Wiesbaden: „Inspiration Natur“
 * 2017: Galerie Westphal, Berlin: „Berlin am Meer“
 * 2017: Galerie Biesenbach: ChangefiveX „Nature“
 * 2016: Galerie Madesta, Regensburg: „Schauplatz Natur“
 * 2015: Yongsan War Memorial Museum, Seoul, Korea, GA (bis 20. März 2016)
 * 2014: Haus Beda, Bitburg: „Mythos Wald“, Zeitgenössische und historische Interpretationen zum Thema Wald
 * 2014: Galerie Biesenbach, Köln.
 * 2011:	XII International Workshop of Visual Arts and Artists, Meeting in Marianowo, Polen, Hubertus Melsheimer Kunsthandel, Köln, Art Karlsruhe
 * 2007: La Biennale du Prieuré, Belgien, Art Cologne
 * 2007: Galerie Wittenbrink, München: „Trügerische Stille“
 * 2006: Hubertus Melsheimer Kunsthandel, Köln
 * 2006: Kunstmesse Karlsruhe

Literature

 * Gisela Krohn, Open Secret. Katalog mit Textbeiträgen von Stascha Rohmer und Norbert Wolf. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86859249-8.
 * Bopp-Schuhmacher, U. (Hg.), Mythos Wald, Historische und zeitgenössische Interpretationen zum Thema Wald und Bäume. Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88423485-3, S. 42–59.
 * Buchner, Volker, Malerei am Ammersee, Bd. 1. Starnberg/München 2011, ISBN 978-3-00035726-8, S. 285.
 * Bopp-Schumacher, U., Wald.Wolf.Wildnis:, Katalog der der gleichnamigen Ausstellung in der "Neuen Galerie im Haus Benda, Bitburg, Bitburg 2021, ISBN 978-3-7356-0746-1