Helga Maria Albrecht

Helga Maria Albrecht, born in Southern Germany, lives as a contemporary painting artist and designer in Hamburg. She holds a diploma of Schwaebisch Gmuend University of Art and Design and is a curator of the Morgenland producer gallery in Hamburg-Eimsbuettel.

In her artistic work, she creates mostly acrylic paintings, acrylic sketches and watercolors, but also digital works in which she further processes analogue paintings using digital techniques and develops them into independent works. Her paintings – both analogue and digital – consist of numerous layers and, despite their expressive and spontaneous appearance, have usually gone through a lengthy working process.

Helga Albrecht's art is shaped by her desire for intensive communication with the artwork and for intensive engagement with the medium of painting. The works are about the interplay of structured and spontaneous energy, about bringing planned conception and impulsivity into balance using a sensitive order. This can only be achieved through surrender to the imponderable, to inspiration and spontaneous impulses while painting. But it also requires thoughtful composition and conscious design of surfaces, space and color. Her artistic process therefore goes through a con...

Studies and Diploma in Visual Design, Schwaebisch Gmuend University of Art and Design
Studies with Karin Witte, Hamburg
Summer Academy Pentiment Hamburg with Piet Warffemius
Studies with Erhard Goettlicher, University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg

Selected Exhibitions

2024
Interpretations of Landscape, GEDOK gallery, Hamburg (Group)
Everyone but Caspar, Sootboern Artist's Residency (Group)

2023
KONTRASTE, "art goes public" project, Fabrik der Kuenste, Hamburg (Group)
VERWIRRUNGEN, GEDOK gallery, Hamburg (Group)
9. International Painting Biennale Hamburg (Group)

2022
LANDSCAPE, paintings, Elbschloss Residence, Hamburg (Solo)
A JOURNEY TO THE MOSELLE, paintings, with poems by Manfred Otto-Albrecht, PopUp Gallery, Hamburg (Solo)
EVERYTHING, Morgenland Gallery, Hamburg (Group)
HANGING AROUND, PopUp Gallery, Hamburg (Group)
COLOURS AT THE HORIZON II, watercolours, Morgenland Gallery, Hamburg (Solo)

2021
CONNECTION, PopUp Gallery, Hamburg (Group)
COLOURS AT THE HORIZON, watercolours, Morgenland Gallery, Hamburg (Solo)
WORK IN PROGRESS II, GEDOK gallery, Hamburg (Group)

2020
PASSION, GEDOK gallery, Hamburg (Group)

2019
ZONES OF SHADOW, GEDOK gallery, Hamburg (Group)

1998–2008
numerous exhibitions in Hamburg und South Germany