Dear friends,
I was born on 29 December 1975 in Munich, where I live and work. In 2014, after attending the studio school of art AKTHOF in Munich, where I studied classical painting and drawing, I found a free, abstract, expressive style of painting.
The sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti once said that the first condition of seeing well is to forget. For him, painting was the instrument of seeing. In a sense, I take up this idea and keep my distance from predefined concepts. I ‘let’ abstract pictorial landscapes arise through ‘letting go’, so to speak.
Actions, decisions and colour selection take place intuitively and spontaneously; the encounter with the painting surface is strongly process-oriented and characterised by impulsive grasping of the colour medium. The works emerge in a natural, creative flow, and are often developed in parallel over a period of weeks.
„Emotional worlds are free of national borders, categories or religious affiliations,
they are brightly coloured, deep black, transcendent, abstract…unfortunately still too unknown in this world“
Inspiring Artists:
Alberto Giacometti, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock, Paul Cézanne, Sigmar Polke, Tilo Baumgärtel
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Exhibitions
2017 „Hinter Der Blauen Tür“, Jahresausstellung Engl Ateliers, München, DE (www.englateliers.de)
2018 BERGAMO ARTE FIERA, Bergamo, IT (www.bergamoartefiera.it)
2018 Arte Genova, Genoa, IT (www.artegenova.com)
2018 ARTe VICENZA, Vicenza, IT (www.artevicenza.net)
2018 Jubiläumsausstellung Engl Ateliers, München, DE (www.englateliers.de)
2018 Contemporary Art Ruhr C.A.R., Essen, DE (www.contemporaryartruhr.de)
2018 Munich ART House, München, DE (www.guhm.net/munich-art-house/)
2018 Jahresausstellung Engl Ateliers, München, DE (www.englateliers.de)
2019 ARTMUC, Praterinsel, München, DE (www.artmuc.info)
2019 L‘appartement 58, München, DE (www.lappartement58.com)
2019 Kunst im Karrée, München, DE (www.kunst-im-karree.de)
2019 ARTMUC, Isarforum/Dt.Museum, München, DE (www.artmuc.info)
2020 ARTMUC, Praterinsel, München, DE (www.artmuc.info)
2021 L‘appartement 58, Kunstsalon November, München, DE
2023 #raumeinsateliers, München, DE
2023 LiTTLE58, Amalienpassage, München, DE (www.lappartement58.com/little58/)
2024 Open Studio Villa Nelimarkka of Museums Nelimarkka, 62900 Alajärvi, Finnland
2024 Kunst im Karrée, München, DE (www.kunst-im-karree.de)
Artist Residencies
2024 four weeks in the Studio Villa Nelimarkka of Museum Nelimarkka, Southern Ostrobothnia Art Museum, 62900 Alajärvi, Finland
www.nelimarkka-museo.fi/en/residency/
International Publications
2018 Internationale Kunst Heute 2018“,
ISBN 978-3-9816595-4-2
2018 Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.),
Ausstellungskatalog 2018
2018 Leut‘ und Leben,
Herbst/Winter 2018: „Ateliergemeinschaft Engl“
2019 Münchner Merkur Nr. 172
Wochenende 27./28. Juli 2019
2019 Versteigerungsbroschüre Charity 2019 zu Gunsten der Stiftung Deutsche Schlaganfall Hilfe e.V.
2019 Versteigerungsbroschüre Charity 2019 zu Gunsten der Kinderhilfe Stiftung e.V.
2019 Versteigerungsbroschüre Charity 2019 zu Gunsten der Til Schweiger Foundation
2019 TZ München, 18.12.2019
2020 Versteigerungsbroschüre Charity 2020 zu Gunsten der Emanuel Wöhrl Stiftung
2020 KIR München, Comeback der Salon-Kultur, Ausgabe 02.2020
2022 ARTPROFIL – Kunstmagazin, 2022, Heft-Nr. 149, Yasin David Sarfraz „My Own Personal Rainbows“
2022 Die Leichtigkeit der Kunst – Podcast / No. 80; L‘appartement 58 with Katharina Lehmann & Yasin Sarfraz
