Rebecca Brodskis

Rebecca Brodskis was born in 1988. She spent most of her childhood travelling and living between France and Morocco. She studied painting at the ateliers des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris and at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. Shortly thereafter, she worked in New York City as the assistant to the Norwegian artist, Lars Laumann. After some time in New York, Brodskis returned to Europe and chose Berlin as her new home base. Having always been attracted by theoretical studies, she is now completing a Masters degree in sociology on the themes of vulnerability and social crisis.
Her paintings could be described as a journey through the oneiric, a dream
state that is perpetually in-between. The images emerge from a variety of sources, sometimes inspired by a photograph or a memory. While the paintings contain figurative elements, details are reduced in order to allow a sense of blurriness to overcome the images.
The characters are never set in a recognizable landscape, in order to cast aside the initial expectations of the viewer. Elements from the real, rational world are painted in a manner that reduces their tangibility. These artistic strategies allow the imagination to flow, liberating our ability fo...

2007-2010 BA fine art Central St Martins College of Art and Design London
2010-2013 BA sociology university of Strasbourg
2013-2014 MA sociology university of Caen

SOLO EXHIBITION

2014
Identity affairs, Kaleisdoskop gallery, Berlin

2013
The In-between, Shift, Berlin

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
Group Show, Urban Spree Gallery, Berlin

2012
Mother, Weserland, Berlin
Things Fall Apart, ECC Atelier haus, Berlin

2011
48 hours Neuköln, Weserland, Berlin

2010
Group show, The Common Room, London
Atmosphere in a spectrum, Crypt gallery, London

2009
A Jew in between, The Foundry Gallery, London
No trespassing, Byam Shaw School of Art (CSM), Concourse Gallery, London