Ilka Vogler

works and lives in Hamburg, Germany

(text)installations, photo cut-outs, paintings on lacquered films

Instead of canvas, Ilka Vogler always opts for lacquered film in vivid and glaring colours as a painting surface. In doing so, she purposely confronts the artificial materiality of the high-gloss plastic film with the often lyrically delicate motives: flowers, plants, lizards, mountain or park landscapes, ornamental patterns and tendrils.

While the images of lizards and reptiles result from her childhood remembrances and her interest for the exotic plant and animal world, the Train Ride with an Iguana focuses upon another important stimulus for her artistic creation: travelling.
Travelling time and again to special places, places symbolizing strength and energy to the artist; places, where culture and nature maintain a close relationship.

Under the impression of her regular sojourns in Sils Maria, over the years, she developed the brilliant series of the upper Engadin mountain landscapes. On a bright blue base, she captures the monumental impact of the massifs. In a virtually bold manner, the forms convey the elemental forces of the high mountains in different shades of light. The distinct quality ...

studied French and German literature in Hamburg and Paris (M.A.)
studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg
form 1984 to 1991 (M.A.)

Solo shows (selection)

2006 "ORIENT OKZIDENT", Galerie am Park, Wien
2005 "Herzschlange", Fenster-Test-Zeichnung,Kunst im oeffentlichen Raum, Woerlitzer Platz, Dessau
2004 "Eine Insel fuer Dich",Konzeptuelle Wandmalerei Kukuun arthotel, Hamburg;
"Neue Lackfolienbilder",Kunst im AKA, Hamburg,
2003 "Berge Blumen Echsen", Galerie Mesaoo Wrede, Hamburg
"WEGE...", Fotoarbeiten, Kunstraum Carmen Oberst, Hamburg
2002 "Gondeln und Motorroller", weltbekannt e.V., Hbf Hamburg
"Lackfolienbilder etc.", LBK Kunstkabinett Hamburg
"O Stern und Blume", Einstellungsraum- Kunst im Strassenverkehr, Hamburg
2001 "Inward Flowering", Galerie Sox 36, Berlin
2000 "Floating time", Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway
1999 "Fensterschau", Kunstverein a.Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
1998 "so jung so alt" Schaukaesten von "weltbekannt", Hauptbahnhof Hamburg
1997 "remember"-Aktionen: "ein Original zum Mitnehmen"
(a take- away original), Hamburg(Eroeffnung der Galerie der Gegenwart u. am Lessingdenkmal), Kassel
Dokumenta X -Eroeffnung (Platz vor dem Frid...