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Marlis Jermutus is a German abstract expressionist artist, musician and author.

Life and work
Marlis Jermutus, also known simply as Ma, was born in the West German town of Wesel, Niederrhein in 1942. In her autobiography, she writes that her father, unsympathetic to the Nazis, was sent to the Russian front days after her birth. Her mother and siblings were sent by the German government to work on a farm in the East German town of Lüderitz. Her father lost his life on the Russian front, and in 1949 Marlis’ family fled East Germany and returned to a 97% destroyed Wesel struggling with reconstruction. Documenting her memories of pre and post war Germany, instances of sexual abuse, and her struggle to break free of the societal restrictions of a working class identity, she writes of embracing the 1960’s counterculture, advocating for a revolution in consciousness, and becoming friends with counterculture icons Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson.

She began her professional career as an artist in 1970. She studied visual art intuitively and with the guidance of the German portrait artist Rigo. She writes in her autobiography that a strong influence for her among German artists creating art in the aftermath of WWII was her neighbor in the Niederrhein region Joseph Beuys. From 1973 to 1993 she exhibited her art in Germany and Ireland.

As a casualty of The War On Some Drugs, she spent three years in prison in Berlin, West Germany from 1982 to 1985. During that time she was twice given special permission to attend openings of her art work painted in prison. She attended the first event, in 1983 at Buecherei Weigel in Berlin with a prison guard accompanying her the entire time. The second opening was at the Move Studios gallery in Berlin. A week before her scheduled release, she was given a pardon, eliminating parole, by the Minister of Justice, Berlin.

In 1991 she was asked to be the Artistic Director for the World Religion Festival “The Power of Vision,“ commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin-Potsdam.

She is currently living in America, painting and exhibiting her art in California, as well as playing the Tanpura with the music group Starseed. Her autobiography, From Now to Now, was published in 2011, by Pelorian Digital.


 * 1971 Founding Member of the national artist's union BBK, Germany (Niederrhein)
 * 1987 Founding Member of artist's collective Kuenstlergruppe Egal, Berlin, Germany
 * 1991 Artistic director for the World Religion Festival The Power of Vision, commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin-Potsdam
 * 2003 to the present, Member of the Siskiyou Artists Council, Dunsmuir, California, USA
 * 2008 to the present, Member of the Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA

Solo exhibitions

 * 1973 Kellergalerie, Kleve
 * 1974 Raiffeisenbank, Wesel
 * 1975 Galerie am Markt, Kevelaer
 * 1980 Galerie Gold und Silber, Bochum
 * 1981 Kulturbruecke, Bochum
 * 1981 Cafe Zuerich, Bochum
 * 1981 Stadtbuecherei, Rees
 * 1983 Buecherei Weigel, Berlin
 * 1984 Galerie 4D, Berlin
 * 1990 Art at Working-Place, Berlin Tempelhof
 * 1991 Galerie im Zeitlos, Berlin
 * 1991 Festival der Visionen, Berlin and Potsdam
 * 1992 Galerie im Zeitlos, Berlin
 * 1992 Christ, Berlin
 * 1993 Hotel Senator, Berlin
 * 2000 Scan Design Gallery, Medford, Oregon, USA
 * 2001 Rare Images Gallery, Mt. Shasta, California, USA
 * 2002 Pomodoro, Mt. Shasta, California, USA
 * 2003 Portal Gallery, Mt. Shasta, California, USA
 * 2003 Village Oracle Gallery, Weed, California, USA
 * 2003 Dolphin Star Holistic Center, Mt. Shasta, California, USA
 * 2003 David H. Rees Gallery, Mt. Shasta, California, USA
 * 2004 Exquisite Jewelry and Gallery, Mt. Shasta, California, USA
 * 2005 Village Oracle Gallery, Weed, California, USA
 * 2005 Dolphin Star Holistic Center, Mt. Shasta, California, USA
 * 2005 Turn of the Century, Berkeley, California, USA
 * 2006 Village Oracle Gallery, Weed, California, USA
 * 2006 The Flying Lotus, Mt. Shasta, California, USA
 * 2006 Dolphin Star Holistic Center, Mt. Shasta, California, USA
 * 2006 Rare Images, Mt. Shasta, California, USA
 * 2006 Jon Rife Gallery, Yreka, California, USA
 * 2007 Basha's Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
 * 2007 Buddha Belly, Weed, California, USA
 * 2007 Surroundings, Yreka, California, USA
 * 2007 Grove Hill Mansion Exhibition, Northampton, MA, USA
 * 2007 John Rife Gallery, Yreka, California, USA
 * 2007 Village Oracle Gallery, Weed, California, USA
 * 2007 Brown Trout Cafe & Gallery, Dunsmuir, California, USA
 * 2008 Turn of the Century, Weed, California, USA
 * 2013 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA
 * 2014 Retrospective Siskiyou Arts Museum, Dunsmuir, California, USA



Group exhibitions

 * 1970 Landart Happening, Bergen a. Zee, Holland
 * 1971 Landart Happening, Mehr
 * 1972 Deutsch-Niederlaendisches Kuenstlertreffen, Holland
 * 1975 Jahresausstellungn Niederrheinischer Kuenstler, Xanten
 * 1976 Open Air Exhibition, Rees
 * 1976 Kleine Galerie, Wesel
 * 1978 Skibb '78, Skibbereen, Ireland
 * 1981 Kunstgiebel, Friedrichsfeld
 * 1981 Hotel, Willingen
 * 1981 Metropole Hotel, Cork, Ireland
 * 1987 Galerie Fasanenstrasse, Berlin
 * 1992 Miro Galerie, Berlin
 * 2001 Siskiyou Arts Council, Mt. Shasta, California, USA
 * 2003 Village Oracle Gallery, Weed, California, USA
 * 2003 Sisson Museum, Siskiyou Artist's Assoc. 46th annual Art Exhibition
 * 2003 - 2005 Exhibition at Dolphin Star Temple, Mt. Shasta, California
 * 2005 Display Exhibition at the Wesak Festival, Mt. Shasta, California
 * 2006 River Run Gallery, Weed, California, USA
 * 2006 Jon Rife Gallery, Yreka, California, USA
 * 2007 Vale Cascade Resort, Vale, Colorado, USA
 * 2007 Jon Rife Gallery, Yreka, California, USA
 * 2007 Art Walk, Dunsmuir, California, USA
 * 2007 Yreka Art Walk, Yreka, California, USA
 * 2007 Brown Trout Cafe & Gallery, Dunsmuir, California, USA
 * 2008 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA
 * 2008 Art Walk, Yreka, California, USA
 * 2008 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA
 * 2009 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - May
 * 2009 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - July
 * 2010 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - September
 * 2011 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - May
 * 2012 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - August
 * 2013 Siskiyou Arts Museum, Dunsmuir, California, USA - November
 * 2014 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - February
 * 2014 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - December
 * 2015 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - February
 * 2015 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - June
 * 2015 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - September
 * 2015 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - November
 * 2016 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - February
 * 2017 Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, California, USA - February