Tanja Vetter

Tanja Vetter

Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About Tanja Vetter

Tanja Vetter’s works show painting as alienation of a reality, where representational and abstract elements are imbued mutually with each other. Landscapes are her motif. Tanja Vetter’s countrysides of wood and mountainscapes, seascapes and staffage landscapes meet our eyes discomfortingly, melancholically and alienating. For, in spite of the closeness to the portrayed, unreal looking traits blend into the open spaces of the sceneries, make their way from tangible motif through its decomposition to the point of abstracted colour patches, warm and cold tinting colour gradients and surface structures. It is not the artist’s aim to depict nature, rather her landscape impressions shape themselves from painting; nature takes place in the process of painting. Her artistic repertoire ranges from expressive brushstrokes to dripped and blending oil paint; over and over the depth of space is sought after and penetrated by the autonomy of colour. In addition human figures in wide, sublime scenery; particularly the latest works include the figure, man into the colouristic landscape areas. These can be of quite symbolic nature and ask questions for the seemingly long gone desire and broken longing for the unity of man and nature. They let us discover and experience them again. Tanja Vetter gratuated in 2002 from the Freie Kunstakademie Mannheim, Germany. Her work has taken many turns in recent years: from abstract informal art to realistic painting – often broken by ironic elements and exploring its means and possibilities by itself.

Education:

1998-2002 Studium der Freien Kunst, Freie Kunstakademie Mannheim (Diplom)

Events:

Auf Abwegen
11/17-01/18 VHS Heidelberg

Exhibitions:

Galerie 777, Heidelberg, 2017
Stadtmuseum Weilburg, Kunstpreis, 2016
Galerie Toolbox, Berlin, 2016
Galerie 777, Heidelberg, 2016
Kunstetagen, Berlin, 2015
Körperformen, Mannheim, 2015
Ausgang A, Mannheim, 2015
Galerie 777, Heidelberg, 2015
Herbert-Weisenburger-Stiftung, Rastatt (E), 2014
Galerie 777, Heidelberg, 2014
„Grande finale“, H715, Mannheim, 2013
Künstlerverein Bürstadt, Kunstpreis, 2013
Heise Kunstpreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, 2013
Klinikum Ludwigshafen, 2012 (E)
Kunstverein Wörth, Der mobile Mensch, 2012
Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Pfalzpreis Bildende Kunst, 2012
Galerie 777, Heidelberg, 2012 (E)
Atrium, Das Haus, Ludwigshafen , 2011
Mesteceni•Birken•Birches, Timişoara, Rumänien, 2011/2012
"Le temps de Sirènes", Lorient, Frankreich, 2010
Galerie im Uhrturm, Dierdorf, 2010
artscoutone, Mannheim, 2009
Stadtgalerie, Mannheim, 2009 (E)
UND # 3, Karlsruhe, 2008
"Kunst auf Abwegen", Nagold, 2007
Kunstmesse OW-Art, Buchen, 2007
IDS, Mannheim, 2007
Galerie 777, Heidelberg, 2006
Klostermuseum Hirsau, Calw, 2005 (E)
Europaforum II, München, 2005 (E)
Galerie 777, Heidelberg, 2004
Stadt Pforzheim, Kulturamt, 2004 (E)
Firma Roche, Mannheim, 2003 (E)
Galerie Art Aenaon, Wiesbaden, 2003
Galerie Ada, Ludwigshafen, 2003