Kirsten Muehlbach

Kirsten Mühlbach (born 1968 in Augsburg), lives, works, studied and grew up in Münster. Since 1993 she has undertaken many study trips mostly on the African continent: in Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia - documented in sketchbooks, through canvas works and various object works.

"I want to communicate with people, to perceive them in their surroundings, in their lives, in order to connect across different borders. The exchange and the observation initiate something new and find their own expression in my artwork"

My inspiration comes from everything that surrounds me in life. I am fascinated by the play of light and shadow in nature and try to incorporate this game into my work. In my pictorial representations, sand figures and ornamental structures applied in relief dominate, which are modelled piece by piece onto the ground with a sharp spatula. The world my sandfigures move, is often painterly predetermined and influences the later settlement. After the sand mass has dried, these figures, some of which have been applied in several layers, are painted with a thin brush. The result are archetypal creatures, reminiscent of goblins with gecko hands or leaf tips. Provided with feelers instead of hair and with...

1990-1996 studies Graphic Design, Diploma, University of Applied Sciences Münster, Germany

Works as a self-employed artist since 1996

since 1995 various exhibitions at home and abroad (selection):

2019: „With Droste in the Glashouse II“ Sandstone-Museum Havixbeck (G) / LOOLAAN GALERIE Apeldoorn - Nederlands (G) /

2018: „open studios“, studio community Hawerkamp, Münster (G) / „me to you too“ Exhibitionhall Hawerkamp 31, Münster (G) /

2017: „open studios“, studio community Hawerkamp, Münster (G) / „WENDY“ Hawerkamp artists + guests (G) - during Skulptur Projekt Münster

2016: „open studios“, studio community Hawerkamp, Münster (G) / „caught in the wind“ Theater Foyer Münster (E)

2015: „open studios“, studio community Hawerkamp, Münster (G) / Project: Stage design „women dance rapport“ Theater Pumpenhaus, Münster (E) / Churches Foyer, Münster (E) / „münsteraner hanging 2“ exhibition hall Hawerkamp, Münster (G)

2014: „open studios“, studio community Hawerkamp, Münster (G) / Smallworld - Namibian Gemstone Jewellery & Artefacts, Swakopmund, Namibia (E) / studio stay namibia (6 month)

2013: „open studios“, studio community Hawerkamp, Münster (G) / „With both feet firmly in the wind“ art club Greven (E)

2012: „open studios“, studio community Hawerkamp, Münster (G) / „münsteraner hanging 1“ exhibition hall Hawerkamp, Münste...