Kiki Stickl

artist, based in Brighton and Munich
Kiki Stickl paintings and drawings are about space, movement and landscape in the sense of a more abstract and extended 'mind'-scape. Exploring the relationship between the self and the world Stickl paints and draws sceneries of lines, colour and movement.
Awareness, simplicity and authenticity are the defining qualities in Kiki Stickl´s drawing:
A white sheet of paper with a few lines and a strip of masking tape can perfectly describe a space. A thought, a feeling in the back-end of mind expresses itself through the motion of a pencil, circles and lines circumscribe and a space that exists in the artists mind at that very moment in time.
Power and fragility reverberate in the empty space of that sheet of paper, the drawing is evidence of an incident: like gravitation waves in the universe a drawing tells a hidden story.

In her painting Kiki Stickl maps fields and spaces, sometimes blurred as if seen from a train at high speed, contrasting with layers of clearly defined expanses of colour.
The eye delves into the depth of the painting and seems to get lost. Time and space are the two dimensions that define her work. Kiki collects impressions outside in daily life and uses these as the ra...

1986-92 studied art and philosophy at Ludwig Maximilians University,
Munich, Germany
1992 master of arts
2002-2005 studio-grant by the Bavarian Ministry of Sciences, Research and Arts
2006 artist in residence,Village Nomade, Chateau de la Corbière, Switzerland
2007/08 artists-on-the-move, a year live/work project with family at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2008 Artist in Residence at Long Road College, Cambridge
2009-13 Munich
2010/11 studio grant Munich, awarded by the city of Munich

since 2013 Brighton, UK and is currently based at Phoenix Studios, Brighton, and Munich, Bermuda Studios

Recent exhibitions include: ’Present Tense’ Phoenix Gallery Brighton; 2017 ` Lines of Aspiration`´, a wall installation for East Sussex Open exhibition Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, 2016; Artists Open Houses Brighton 2016; Phoenix Open Studios, Brighton, 2016 ;‚Home‘ ; Artists Open Houses 2014; Phoenix Open Studios, Brighton 2014; Galerie kunst@sono; Munich, 2013 (solo);‚Update‘ Kallmann - Museum, Ismaning 2010; ‚ever after the honey‘ Clare Hall College, Cambridge, 2009; “Ortungen II”, Town Museum of Neuötting, D, 2009 (solo); “Wysing Inside Out”, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire 2008, “Zeichnung“(Drawing)) Grosse Kunstausstellung München; Haus der Kunst, Munich;,“Hinterland” (solo); Gallery of the bavarian county; Munich, “Through the looking glass”; Haus der Kunst, München 2006.