Manuela Wutschke

Romanian born abstract artist living in North Germany

Graduated with a degree in Geography - Geology - German Literature in Bucharest

I am in influenced by the Abstract Expressionism loving intuitive painting, mark making and building up layers upon layers, mixing different media following my own intuition in a playful joyeous way.

Density and transparency. Veiling and revelation. Restlessnes and rest.
Identity, memory, past and future, metamorphosis .... A few of my thoughts and topics concerning me as an expression of my two cultural indentities trying to combine different experiences from two different worlds in this dance of "in between".

My goal is to bring all my stories into the world, my love for the beautiful nature in this wonderful area I am living here in the northern part of Germany and to evoke my own emotions through mostly abstract art.

Favourite Materials: Canvas, Wood, Glass, Paper

Statement:

I have always carried with me the wish to be an artist. In order to find new ideas I need to play and have fun and let go out of control. Times of complete freedom just playing around with materials are important and a chance for intuition.

2022 | 2023 Fine Art Study Years, Free Art AcademyAugsburg, class of Rainer Kaiser

2020 - Fine Art Study Year, Free Art Academy Augsburg, class of Andrea Rozorea

2013 - 2020 Workshops and Seminars of renowned artists as Harald Gnade and Edda Jachens at the Freie Akademie Berlin,
Andrea Rozorea and Elisabeth Bader at Freie Akademie Augsburg,
Glassprint in Frauenau with Gerhard Ribka, Kunstschule der Gemeinnützigen Lübeck class of Ursula Cravillon-Werner

2004 - 2017 International Education Hot Glass: Lampworking, Free Formed Glass, Glassprint

1982 - 1986 Univerity Bucharest, Geography - Geology - German Literature with a degree in Geography and German Literature

Selected Exhibitions

2019 Glasbiennale Musee du Verre, Charleroi, Belgium

2018 Lübeck, Berkentienhaus, "Paradiese. Heiß geformt"

2017 Lübeck, Berkentienhaus, "Eingefangenes Licht. Glas, Objekt, Malerei"

2015 Berlin, Akademie für Malerei, Gemeinschaftsausstelllung zum 10. Jubiläum

2015, Lübeck, Handwerkskammer "Augendialoge"

2014 Glas Now Weekend and Auction, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, USA

2013 Kobe, Japan, Glass Museum

2013 USA, New Jersey, Wheaton Village, USA

2010 The Tempest - International Invitational Exhibition, UK