Sabrina Seligsohn

My pictures arise from an initial motif that literally captivates me and remains as a focus until the picture is started. I love to paint with oil, because they are supple and can be best processed in the further process of the image with complementary motifs and compositional elements. Each image requires a lot of patience and caution in the making, which can be optimally combined with oil paints. My works are created over several weeks in a Charlottenburg studio in Berlin. I am particularly interested in the contrasts between figurative elements of life integrated into non-logical spaces or landscapes. A form of image emerges that I would like to describe anew with the word "illogic". This illogic seduces to set out visually in the picture. I am always surprised how much time viewers of a picture take to dive into its own world. Over the years, my works have become more colorful and expressive. Each painting consists of many layers. I have been painting since a young age and have returned to painting after my days of motherhood and raising children. For about 20 years, paintings are created with passion and I draw from the work itself and the final picture a great strength and energy. Is a picture ready, the next inspiration is a...

Business life:
Commercial training and activities as an assistant especially in real estate
Family work and raising two lovely children
Internship for printing at the University of the Arts (now UdK), Berlin
Training for painting: At all times autodidactic learning and working
At times in special studios/groups
Currently: Artistic accompaniment by Sybille Waldhausen, sculptor, Berlin

Exibitions selection
2005 Studio Jeanette Meentzen, Berlin
2009 Buchkantine, Berlin
2012 Atelier Astrid Lesnick, Berlin
2014 Kölner Liste Fair for Contemporary Art, Köln
2014 Tuxedo Galerie Bar, Berlin
2023 Privatraum Galerie Mommsen35, Berlin