Birgit Huttemann-Holz

Birgit’s energetic works show a lush world, where nature is in constant celebration. Her lyrical abstractions reflect an intense relationship with the surrounding landscape, an intimate experience of wilderness which mirrors alluring and alarming oneself. At heart being a contemporary romanticist, she depicts the grandeur of nature and the place of humanity within it.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in Germany, The Netherlands, and in the US. Birgit won multiple awards nationwide. Her work was selected for, Saatchi Collections "New This Week" 2014-2022; The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY, 2017- 2019, and The Other Art Fair Chicago, IL, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024.
In February 2017, she attended a month-long residency at The Studios of Key West.
Recently, she was awarded the Female Lifetime Achievement Award, Art Comes Alive, ADC Fine Art Gallery, Cincinnati, 2022 and was selected for the NG Art Creative Residency in Provence, France, 2023.
Her book "Enkaustik- Das Grundlagenbuch zur Wachsmalerei" was published April 2015 by Christopherus Verlag, Germany and translated into English in 2017, “How to create Encaustic Art- A guide to painting with wax”.
Birgit is also a musician, singer songwriter and pr...

2004-2023 Continued Education in Fine Art:
2023 Create Anyway, workshop online 3 months
2021 Zen, Big Brush, Expressive Mark Making, Paula Roland, online, 1 month
2020 Art to Life, workshop online, 3months
2017 one-month artist residency @The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL
2015-2023 student in ceramics at Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
2014 8th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, MA
2011/2013 Advanced Monotype, Paula Roland, Santa Fe
2010 Summer Academy for the Arts, Marburg Germany, Prof Andras Ernszt, Hungary
2009 IEA Retreat, panelist Tony Scherman
2004-2007 Continued Education, CCS College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1991-94 Studies in German Literature, Media Science, Philosophy at University of Karlsruhe and Philipps University Marburg, Germany
1989 B.A. Physical Therapy, Ludwigshafen/ Schoemberg, Germany

Solo (Including 2 Person Show):
2024 On the Wayside, Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Posterity Gallery April 1-30, Grosse Pointe, MI
2022 On Beauty and Being, Birgit Huttemann-Holz, January 10- April 30, Healthspan Michigan, Grosse Pointe, MI
2018 “Metaphor of Flora”, Birgit Huttemann-Holz, September 21-Oct 30, River’s Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2017 The Weight of the Orchids, Studios of Key West- Ashe Campus, Key West, FL
2015 Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Ward Gallery, Petoskey, MI
2013 Between Heaven and Earth, River’s Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2011/2012 Affairs with Serpents and Heroines, River’s Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2009 Wherever you are, Gallery at the Unitarian Church Birmingham –Bloomfield, MI
2007 Come away with me, Doan Residence, Grosse Pointe, MI