Skadi Engeln

I do not try to disclose what is hidden. The secret should be preserved, just like beauty, which perhaps lies especially within the denseness, and encryption, within the mystery.

Landscape dissolves into light, water, weather and through people. Thanks to its gravity it recomposes time and time again. In its transitions landscape reveals its essence, its transcendence and its beauty. Like landscape, painting knows how to dissolve what is specific, solid, visible and familiar to us. Thus it traces the invisible without ever recognizing it completely.

Landscape as a synonym for the world reflects underlying realities and truths, encrypts them, makes them show through and discloses them only as approximations. The horizon as the central focus of my artistic works separates and connects what is above and what is underneath, what is obvious and what is hidden. When landscape filters what is underneath, the observer’s view is influenced, shaped, blocked. It is not my aim to decode what is above or underneath. The secret should be kept – and the beauty which perhaps lies in the encrypted, in the mysterious.

Since 2001 I have been especially interested in abstract landscape painting. In my current work landscapes appear as if hid...

87/88 student of Hermann Baldenbach, Essen painter
90-95 Studies at the FH Ottersberg
Sculpture with Robert van de Laar
Painting with Michael Kohr and Hermanus Westendorp

Solo- Expositions (choice)
2018 « Landschaft und Figur », MCZ Templin; "...Landschaften", Galerie Flierl, Berlin (Mai),
2016 " eingekleidete Akte und neue Landschaften", Galerie Serigraffeur, Berlin; « durchwebte Landschaft », Zionskirche, Berlin
2015 « gravures sur bois - Skadi Engeln », Le Paradis – Chateaumeillant, Atelier Marc-Michel Gabali, Les Archers – Le Chatelet ; « durchwebte Landschaft », Magistrale der Parkklinik-Weißensee
2014 « Berlin-Berry », rencontres des arts, Mers sur Indre, Frankreich; « Blick auf die Landschaft », Blaue Stunde Galerie, Berlin
2013 Skadi Engeln – Walter Karberg, Atelier Ina Klopfer, Wagenitz-Haveland ; « les paysages polychromes de skadi engeln « première fête de l'estampe, Paris
2012 « Störbilder », Ausstellungsraum. Steinerhaus, Hamburg, Galerie Blaues Atelier, Graz, Österreich
2011 Marien Hospital Euskirchen
2010 „Lichten“ Galerie Frehnhofer, Berlin; „paysages“ Mairie St. Jeanvrin; Platinion, München ; « meereslandschaften » Galerie GAD, Berlin ; « nur meer », Galerie Kunstschwimmer, Berlin
2008 Galerie Sondermann, Essen, Galerie O.C Goossenaerts, Bad Honnef
2007 Bundesärztekammer Berlin, Siemens AG, Dortmund
2005 Thyssenkrupp, Krefeld
2002 borgwardt design, Berlin

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