Katinka Dermietzel

My art is an expression of my inner imagery, which I achieve through calm and clarity. I am not fixed on a style, because the new always arises from the previously experienced and thus results in a perpetual process. Therefore, all series coexist on an equal footing.
I am interested in the "in between". Energies that we can't really comprehend or see, but whose existence we sense. Like invisible connections between people or things around us, like our nature.
During the painting process I am in a state of extreme concentration on the essential, on the "now". Nothing flows in, which is unimportant at this moment.
The pictures are like cutouts that reach to the edge of the picture and can be continued there by the viewer. It is about a point of contact from which the viewer enters his own interpretive space. When my pictorial worlds merge with those of the viewer, then we come into contact with each other, then the picture lives on in the viewer.

Katinka Dermietzel completed her art studies as a master student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 2007. Prior to that, she had already studied and graduated in architecture with a focus on design and representation at the University of Stuttgart.
Her work has been shown in a number of private collections and she has participated in solo and group exhibitions across the country.
In 2020, she founded the project "Out of studio" to enable as many people as possible to get in touch with art.
Another focus of her work is her painting place after Arno Stern, with whom she trained in Paris in 2014. In total she has over 20 years of teaching experience in the art field.
Katinka Dermietzel lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

Over 20 solo exhibitions and well over 30 group exhibitions bear witness to the artist's lively exhibition activity.
Among the exhibitions, the exhibitions "Die Grosse" in the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, as well as the exhibition in the Dreifelssen Collection, a private exhibition hall of a collector family, are particularly noteworthy. In addition, there are exhibitions in various art associations and at numerous fairs. With her project "Out of studio" Katinka Dermietzel has exhibited in over 30 private spaces.