Britta Eriskat

Catrin Morschek M.A., about the series "Foldings of bronze", 2020: "The work of the artist Britta Eriskat is multi-layered and complex and cannot be categorized. It is often visual impressions, such as the view from her window, chance encounters or imagined scenes, which the artist translates into her own visual language through drawing or design. This results in works that encode the visually perceived objects or scenes, abstracting possible recognizable figurations.

The pictorial invention often develops as the result of a prolonged thought process that analyzes the most diverse facets of the subject and then finds implementation in serial form. The format of the series gives the artist the freedom to illuminate a theme from many sides, to dissect and to integrate the individual parts, each in a new incoherent context. The choice of painting material also plays a not insignificant role, since it is used consistently within a series.
Although Eriskat experiments and works with a wide range of materials, such as colored pencils and black or colored ink mostly on paper, but also with paper, clay and bronze in the sculptural field, drawing is always recognizable as the basis of her artistic work. All works oscillate equally betwe...

2024: Pentiment - International Summer Academy of Art and Design e.V., Hamburg (Eckhardt Sauer, Painting, Collage, Clay)
2022: Pentiment - International Summer Academy of Art and Design e.V., Hamburg (Johannes Speder, Sculpture)
2021: Master Craftsman Award of the Bavarian State Government for outstanding performance
2019-2021: Further training to become a designer in the skilled trades at the Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria
2019: Pentiment - International Summer Academy of Art and Design e.V., Hamburg (Johannes Speder, Sculpture)
2017: Pentiment - International Summer Academy of Art and Design e.V., Hamburg (Heiner Blumenthal, Drawing and Painting)
2014: Art Academy Bad Reichenhall (Heiner Blumenthal, Drawing and Painting)
2013: Pentiment - International Summer Academy of Art and Design e.V., Hamburg (Sybille Kroos, Painting)
From 2009 til 2014 study of painting and drawing with Jess Walter, Munich
1989-1992: Training as a typesetter in Munich

"Pentiment 2024", 34. International Summer Academy for Art und Design, August 2024, Hamburg
"Papierarbeiten", Exhibition together with Anna Frydman, June 2024, Studio for Design, Munich
"Einblicke", Exhibition with Andreas Holzknecht and Anna Frydman, December 2022, Studio for Design, Munich
"Check Your Letterbox!" – An experiment with distance,
Exhibition July 2-3, 2022, 3-7 p.m., Studio for design and creation, Munich
"Munich Creative Business Week" – Universal Design Competition 2022, May 6-14, 2022, Oskar-von-Miller-Forum, Munich, Germany
"Check Your Letterbox!" – An experiment with distance,
Exhibition July 2-3, 2022, 3-7 p.m., Studio for design and creation, Munich
"Kunst in Sendling" Open Studio Days, October 2019
"Pentiment 2019", August 2019, Hamburg
"Kunst in Sendling" Open Studio Days, October 2018
"Pentiment 2017", August 2017, Hamburg
"Südsee", May 2017, Munich
"Inspired by" March 2017, Munich
"Libertines", permanent exhibition since October 2016, Hofspielhaus, Munich
"Libertines", 2016, Friday Gallery, Munich
"500 Artists say Hello", 2016, Munich
February Artist, 2016, Munichartists.com
Open Studio Riemerling, May 2015
"Pentiment 2013" August 2013, Hamburg
"Hardcore", 2013, Munich
"Put your balls out of your story", ...