Keike Twisselmann

Born in Berlin in 1967, Keike Twisselmann studied Fine Arts in belfast from 1989 to 1992 and her Masterclass with Prof. Alastair McLennan from 1994 to 1996 at the University of Ulster. Residing in Berlin since 2000, she was voted into the chair commitee of the Berufsverband Bildender Kuenstler Berlins. Her work is based on philosophical and political questions.ON PAINTING: (...) Keike Twisselmann has a gift of colour imbued by existence. None of her marks are just filling in some available space. All are hot and high on life. Their look may remind you of Franz Marc - but the differences point to Keike as inventive painter.I perceive two bundles of differences. One bundle is made up of her existential anguish, of the deeply felt disappointment with the ethics of the contemporary societies. The other, paradoxically, while rooted in the same anguish, celebrates fragments of the living world wrapped up in fragments of myths.It is perhaps useful to recall, that myth is a meme for remembering truth. In the way Keike imbues her colours with energy, I sense the myth of Prometheus. She would be not the only contemporary artist replicating some aspects of his deed. Tim Rollins and K.O.S has devoted a large website to their work on Prome...