Annette Goessel

My name is Annette Goessel. I’m an abstract painter from Berlin, Germany.

An E-mail conversation about glaciers, elves and “lyrical agitations”... between Annette Goessel and cultural journalist Kathrin Hondl.

KH: You grew up in Lübeck, studied in Stuttgart and Vienna and have now been living in Berlin for a quite a while.What was it that brought you to Iceland a few years ago?

AG: It was twelve years ago in Berlin that my family and I were invited by Icelandic friends to visit their country. We were lucky enough to have enjoyed a journey that was very particular, personal and adventurous. That was probably the reason Iceland became a “love at first sight” country for me and I became an “Icelandophile”.

KH: Iceland is quite popular with many people as a tourist destination. What was it that interested you artistically? Why did you decide to work there?

AG: It's true, there is plenty of tourism in Iceland by now. A lot is changing in the country. Nevertheless, there are still largely uninhabited landscapes. Color harmonies, structures, light direction, glacier formations, lava fields, snow, water, rock ... Back in my Berlin studio, the visible and invisible forces of nature had a lasting effect on me. When I was given...

1988 - 1992 http://www.dieangewandte.at/ Wien;
Masterclass Prof. Oberhuber, Prof. Ernst Caramelle

12. October 2019
"Nach Norden, nach Norden!
...oder doch inn den Süden?"
foundation VALENTINY, Luxemburg

Werkschau Annette Goessel, Forum Factory Berlin
tauchgang annettegoessellutzmüller, Forum Factory Berlin
Mal Drei, Waschhaus Kunstraum Potsdam
St. Petri, Lübeck
Opening of Conservatorio de la Musica, Altea, Spain
Casa Cultura de Altea, Spain
Alfabet, Berlin
Galerie am großen Stern, Berlin
Projckt „Alles in Ordnung“; Cselley Mühle, Burgenland
GEDOK - Atelierhaus; Lübeck
Palais Wittgenstein; Vienna
Galerie Ariadne, Vienna