Saint Bauzile, Ardeche, France
Neither background nor foreground; the elements of the composition – abstract shapes sometimes resem...
About the artist
Joined In 2023
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About the artist
Joined In 2023
(3 Followers)
Neither background nor foreground; the elements of the composition – abstract shapes sometimes resembling floral or organic forms – are connected, they float in space, establish relationships between them – nothing is isolated. Parity of pictorial planes, parity of pictorial elements, controlled gestures versus random gestures, so many visible traces of a confrontation between the conscious and the unconscious.
When I start a painting I have no idea what will come of it - my work is the result of acting, reacting and reacting to reaction. Spontaneous declarations, snapshots.
I try to evoke a visual poetry, wanting to invite the spectator to enter my world, a world without a central point, sometimes light as a feather, then voluminous like a piece of lead; be seduced by my language, my colors. An animated world with its personal aesthetic, with rough and confronting sides at the same time, delicate and almost tender, caressing...
Monika Riethmueller, born in 1964, grew up in Cologne and studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, graduating in 1989.
Residing in Ireland, Riethmueller taught art and art history in Wicklow. Returning to Amsterdam in 1995, Riethmueller worked for an international software company until 2020.
Today she lives and works as a freelance artist in the south of France (Saint Bauzile, Ardeche) and in Germany (Windeck, North Rhine-Westphalia)
Her work - paintings, collages and drawings - is exhibited internationally and collected around the world.
2024
Solo show Galerie Ombre & Lumiére, Venterol, France
Solo show La chapelle des Cordeliers – Crest, France
Solo show Galerie Le Cactus Bleu - Reugny (Loire), France
Guest of honour at the Salon des artistes contemporaines, Vienne, France
Solo show Centre culturel André Auclair, Cruas, France
Group show Salle des clercs, Valence, France
2023
Le Salon des Artistes Français 2023, Art Capital, Grand Palais Ephémère – Paris - France
Solo show Maison de Privas, Privas – France
Group show at galerie Luzia Sassen, Hennef – Germany
ST-ART Art Fair 2023 with galerie Luzia Sassen / Strasbourg – France
Group show Institute for Palestinan Studies, Beyrouth - Libanon / New York – USA
2022
LICHT CUBE with galerie Luzia Sassen / solo show Cologne – Germany
Kulturhalle Kabelmetall 2022 with galerie Luzia Sassen - Windeck, Germany
ART'UP LILLE with Galerie Lill'Art / Grand Palais Lille, France
Rêve d'hiver with galerie Luzia Sassen / group show Hennef- Germany
2021
SM'ART AIX Salon d'Art Contemporain with galerie Lill'Art /Aix-en-Provence, France
START Art Fair with galerie Luzia Sassen / Strasbourg, France
Affordable Art Fair with galerie Luzia Sassen / Tour & Taxis -Brussels, Belgium
INCorporating art fair Hamburg with galer...
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