Brita Seifert

Born 1964 in Leipzig.
1983 - 1991 Academy for Graphic and Illustration Leipzig, Art Academy Berlin-Weiensee, Art Academy Zurich

It is hard for me to discuss my own work; like your own handwriting, it is something that, at this point, is simply a part of me.

People often ask me: "What inspires you to paint?" or "What's the meaning of your paintings?"

Well, my work is mostly inspired by music, travel and personal experiences. Each painting can either put you in another world, in the middle of a story or simply be the expression in symbols of my inner feelings.

The scenes in my work take place in the twilight of morning or in the last rays of evening, the border between day and night, sleep and waking, bluring the destinction between the reality and the phantoms of the imagination.

I want to invite the viewer into a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar, the world of the unconcious and the landscape of the dream, where there is a happy disregard for the laws of everyday reality and where images can become loaded with a subjective meaning that remains enigmatic and only half understood.

The persons in my paintings are mostly a symbol for myself and they reflect - of course! - all ...

Solo Shows:
Nov. 2005: County Court Eilenburg, Eilenburg, Germany
Sept./Oct.2005: Gallery Andalusien Art, Worpswede, Germany
June 2005: Amadeus Art AVU Gallery, Amersfoort, Netherlands

October 2003: October Show, Baltimore, USA
September 2003: Masterpiece Alley Gallery, Takoma Park, Maryland, USA
6. July - 20. August 2003: "National Broadcasting System's Art Gallery", Washington D.C./MD, USA (Studio Gallery of the NBC)

Sept. 2001 - Jan. 2002: "Kiek Inn", Berlin-Niederschneweide

Jan. - June 1998: Gallery P.S., Berlin-Wilmersdorf
June 1998: Kulturverein "Brcke 7", Berlin-Niederschneweide

June - Dec. 1997: Gallery P.S., Berlin-Wilmersdorf
March 1997: Kulturverein "Brcke 7", Berlin-Niederschneweide
February 1997: Gallery Gemeinschaftshaus Gropiusstadt, Berlin-Gropiusstadt
January 1997: "Barfly", Berlin-Spandau

July 1996: "Advena", Berlin-Kreuzberg

August 1992: Praxis Dr. Westermann, Bblingen

August 1991: Gallerykneipe "Tangente", Tbingen

December 1988: Gallery "Zur Laterne", Berlin-Lichtenberg
September 1988: Gallery "M", Berlin-Marzahn,