Renee Rauchalles

Lives and works in her birthplace Munich (Germany)

Painter, author, actor, teacher of the above.

From earliest childhood, voice, ballet and acting training inspired the bodily and spiritual awakening of the artist Rene Rauchalles, especially in her early discovery of going within and internal awareness. This observation of inner emotional and bodily motion led her to her understanding of movement out of silence. This investigation of inner movement, which exists in all creation, led the artist towards work in the creative arts through her abstract, dynamic, mostly multi-panel paintings, exhibit this movement in flowing forms and line expanding beyond their own limits.

The physical and spiritual freedom gained through this movement stands juxtaposed against the limited archetypal space of her figurative paintings (regularly exhibited under the title The Bleeding Planet) expose power, violence, destruction and inhumanity. In order to evoke how the principle of duality influences our entire existence (material and non-material, reality and dream, visible and invisible, inner and outer, tangible and intangible) Rene Rauchalles consciously chooses figurative/concrete concepts opposed to abstract visualizations, co...

Education and biography

Voice, theatre and ballet training
Study at the Masterschool for Graphics (Meisterschule fr Grafik), Munich; first paintings
During her studies, she co-founds Galerie am Abend in Munich, with journalist Gerd Hedler. Contact with many artists.
Many years in theatre as actress and singer
As a result of injury, theatrical activities ended
1987 onwards has devoted herself to painting
1998 founds ZEITfrKUNST-Galerie, Munich; permanent exhibition of the artists works, as well as regular staged readings
Teaches painting, voice and bodywork
2001 her book The Art of Death (with Bernhard Sill) is published by Pustet Verlag, Regensburg
Writing and poetry published frequently in newspaers, magazines and anthologies

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions in Germany (Selection):

1992 Galeriehaus Hof (Hofer Filmtage)
1994 Klinikum Grohadern, Munich
1998 Anton Fingerle Bildungszentrum, Munich
2000 Galerie Antaris, Munich
2002 Deutsche Bank Maximilianstrae, Munich
2003 Kunstforum Rmerschanze, Munich-Grnwald
2004 Max-Planck-Institut Munich-Martinsried
2005 Orangerie, Munich
2007 - isarbote.art, Munich, "InnerWorlds"
- Orangerie, English ...