Gerlind Hentze

Color areas and figures are essentially the content of my paintings. In their reducedness, they enter into a symbiosis and interweave with each other, demarcate and create a sensitive atmosphere of disappearance and presence. My pictures tell of insecurity, vulnerability, doubt, dignity, pride.

My figures are often fleeting, non-binding, reveal little, sometimes define themselves more through their surroundings, withdraw, step out of the picture, float, lose their feet on the ground or linger in themselves.

I explore the boundary between recognisability and abstraction. The figure becomes almost secondary.

If the figure first drew attention to itself and showed the viewer the way into the picture, it now withdraws, blends into the play of line and surface and interweaves itself.
The soft colors, the peculiarity of the forms, fine, subtle structures and lines that connect and separate and penetrate, this is my feast for the senses.

Eugene Delacroix says: "It is the first duty of a picture to be a feast for the eyes."[1]

I weave a web of harmony out of fragments, enigmas, ignorance, fuzziness and ambiguity and give this to the viewer as a positive sign to take with them.

For the image finding, I superimpose sketches, photo tem...

2006 - 2018 | Teached from renowned artists and Institutes, e.g. Michael Hegewald, Carola Czempik, Liz Mields-Kratochwil, Uwe Müller-Fabian

2019 - 2023 | Studied painting at the Berlin Academy of Painting with Ute Wöllmann and Andreas Amrhein

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2022 Academy for Painting Berlin, public presentation for admission to the master's degree
2020 Academy for Painting Berlin, public presentation for admission to main studies
2019 Business Park Dresden
2018 Vermögensmanufaktur DAT, Halle (up close)
2017 Showroom Mercedes-Benz-Center, Berlin - Reinickendorf (cross-section)
2017 Room 16, camera dell' arte, Berlin - Pankow (almost silent)
2016 Caritas Clinic Maria Heimsuchung, Berlin - Pankow (transitions), 20 years of art in the hospital
2016 Sparkasse, Glienicke/ Nordbahn (By the sea - a journey into abstraction)
2015 Gallery in the tourist information, Oranienburg (A short eternity)
2015 "Alte Feuerwache" community center, Hennigsdorf (length of stay)
2014 Old Town Hall, Glienicke/ Nordbahn
2013 Wein & Vinos, Berlin - Frohnau (pictures of the summer)
2013 Dominikus - Hospital, Berlin - Hermsdorf
2011 Town Hall of Glienicke/ Nordbahn

EXHIBITION PARTICIPATIONS
2022 ART A10, Wildau
2022 Art in the Rotunda, German Pension Insurance, Frankfurt (Oder)
2022
BV Gallery of the Professional Association of Visual Artists, Regional Association of Carinthia, Austria

2018 Review of the Brandenburg Art Prize 2018, Rathausgalerie Hoppegarten
2017 Art in the Rotunda - German ...