Monika Riethmueller

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...