Annette Marx

Annette Marx lives and works in Saarbrücken.
She has had her studio in Cecilienstrasse in the Nauwieser Viertel in Saarbrücken since 2012 and is a co-founder of the SommernachtsRaumKollektiv.

She has exhibited her work for many years in Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain (solo exhibitions and participation in exhibitions).

Her works are part of public and private collections in Germany and abroad.




I deal with the theme of beauty in the ephemeral.

Whether I am travelling through post-industrial spaces or nature, I try to perceive the beauty of what I see, to breathe in the overall impression, to absorb the vulnerability.

In my pictures I take up the forms I see, a process of accumulation and adaptation.
In my abstract but also sometimes representational series of works, I use photos, papers and screen prints as collages, which are applied to the canvas and playfully supplemented with acrylic paint and chalk.
Photos, colour and lines merge and become an equally powerful and fragile whole, in the sense of the overall impression and beauty of a found object seen in real life.
By intervening with colour and line, something new is created against the forlornness.

I breathe against the dark absurdity o...

Artistic education at the Wadgassen Summer Academy and at the
European Art Academy Trier
Free painting with Alain Simon (Nancy/F) and Leslie Huppert (Saarbrücken)
Drawing with Jean-Louis Guermann (Nancy/F) and Francis Berrar (Saarbrücken)
Free painting with Jochen Stenschke (Berlin)

Solo exhibitions (selection)
Exhibitions by Kunstservice Little Van Gogh in Bad Honnef - Galerie Arteperitus at Kunstwerk Malzeit in Saarbrücken - Westside at E-Werk Saarbrücken - Galerie m beck in Homburg/Saar - Café Kanne in Neunkirchen - TUFA in Trier - DEKA Immobilien in Brussels - Galerie Goosmann in Bad Berzabern - TU Kaiserslautern - Headquarters of Sparkasse Neunkirchen - Podium Wien in Munich - Galerie Goosmann in Bad Berzabern - DEKA Immobilien in Munich - Kloster Johannisberg in Rheingau - TU Kaiserslautern - Podium Wien - Kunstverein Fulda - Kunstwerkstatt Wien - Printmedia Lounge in Heidelberg - Galerie Marziart Hamburg - Kulturverein Altenahr - Schloß Dagstuhl Wadern - gARTenhaus Bochum - Sali e Tabacchi, Saarbrücken - Bosener Mühle Art Centre - Parc d'Exploatation, Carreau Wendel(F)


Participation in exhibitions (selection)
Art season Bad Bergzabern - Action Culturelle, Forbach (F), 1st prize category acrylic - Two Days Art Luxembourg - Lions Club, Edenkoben - Art Café Barcelona - Artothek der Tuchfabrik Trier - Tage der Bildenden Kunst, Saarbrücken - Neunkircher Künstlerkreis - CUEVA Batiment 4, Esch(L) - Sommernachtsraum Kollektiv - Tufa Trier - Salon d' Art, Esch Alzette - Arthouse, Neunkirchen - Kunst im Land...