"Innigkeit (6)" Painting

I translate my observations and perceptions of the world into my paintings, installations, photo productions, and performances. In doing so, I explore the depths of human existence and becoming, examining inner states and identity. Everyday scenes and my own experiences serve as inspiration. My paintings tell of the small and big moments in life, of longing and connection.
My works are mostly created on canvas, predominantly with oil paint. I also work on paper and in the field of printmaking.
In my paintings, I want to leave questions open and present the viewer with puzzles. Because not everything has to be explained. There can be secrets.

For me, painting is a conversation: with myself, with the picture, with the world, and with what wants to be expressed. I try to listen, absorb, and make what I have absorbed visible on the picture carrier.

Artist portrait by art historian Sylvia Schneider:

German artist Gala Biermann was born in Dresden in 1975. After training at the State Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen (1994-1998), studying stage and costume design (Dresden, 1998), and spending semesters abroad at the art academies in Tbilisi (Georgia, 2000) and Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2002), she completed her diploma at the HfBK Dresden in 2006. Her paintings bear witness to this extensive training and the skills she has acquired.

People and life

As in theater, Gala Biermann's paintings provide a projection screen for life. Her graphics and paintings deal with life, human relationships (e.g., mother-child) in different cultures, or biographical events. As everyday as her motifs are, they seem anything but banal, because Gala Biermann manages to show the human aspect in a direct way. Traveling extensively around the world, she often finds her motifs while on her journeys.

Figurative painting

Gala Biermann's training in Meissen taught her to use color and form with technical precision. The use of color in her paintings testifies to her sure hand. Gala Biermann does not want to transfer the perfectionism of porcelain painting to her paintings. She conveys atmosphere and fast-pacedness through her free style. The deliberately open visual language does not reduce, but rather brings out the essential.

Diverse projects

Gala Biermann is active in theater on various levels. She began as a stage and costume designer (2004) and then went on to stage various theater projects and performances herself (from 2013).