Silja Ritter

Silja Ritter, the painter born in "Altes Land" near Hamburg in Germany, has been awarded several scholarships after studying at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg.
She received one from the DAAD for the Ecole Nationale Supérieure der Beaux-Arts, Paris.

"During my one-year stay in Paris (DAAD Graduate Scholarship), I studied the patterns and symbols of oriental rugs. Starting from a dream, I integrated personal things into the system of oriental rug by stitching, painting, labeling, cutting and projecting. In my dream two real plants, similar to sea anemones, grew on an Oriental rug with a floral pattern.
These plants camouflaged themselves in the pattern of the carpet. I played with them. For me, this dream is a picture of the feminine power, hidden in a traditional system."

Her painting, which is as powerful as it is subtle, life-affirming, and at the same time poetically delicate, an abstraction determined by lines, color, and rhythm, a painting that seeks to reveal the mystery of nature. With generous curves she creates forms that, born of the inner rhythm, express their temperament and present mood.

"The painting and the life process involve the constant becoming and passing away. To admit this process and make...

2001-2002 guest student at the University of Arts, Berlin
2000-2001 DAAD Graduate Scholarship Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1994-1999 College of Fine Arts, Hamburg

1998 „Das Unsichtbare“ – Malerei, Gruppenausstellung im Rahmen von Pentiment, Hamburg
1998 Kursassistenz Pentiment Hamburg bei Tanja Mohr, Malerei
2000 „ortsfremd“ – zeichnerisches Buchprojekt, Diplomausstellung, Hamburg
2000 „Schnecke und Wand“ Cartoon, Hamburg
2000-2001 DAAD Graduiertenstipendium – Paris
2000 „Joue avec les plantes du tapis“ Installation mit Orientteppichobjekten, Ausstellung Galerie Gauche, Paris
2001 „Perdre pieds“ – Bodeninstallation mit Orientteppichfragmenten, Ausstellung „portes ouvertes“, ENSBA Paris
2001 Briefaktion „Können Sie mich hören?“, ENSBA Paris
2002-2004 Illustrationen für die Berliner Zeitung und Audimax
2003 Arbeitsstipendium des Berliner Senats im Rahmen des Kunst- und Kulturfestivals „48 Stunden Neukölln“, Berlin
2003 „hfo – harmloses flugobjekt“, Orientteppichflugperformance im Rahmen des Kunst- und Kulturfestivals „48 Stunden Neukölln“, Berlin
2004 „Von Tapeten, Tieren und der Traurigkeit“ Kinderbuchprojekt, Berlin
2006 „Fußballhimmel“ Jacobi Kirche, Hamburg, Gruppenausstellung organisiert von der Galerie Ruth Sachse, Hamburg
2010 „Mami, was ist denn Liebe?“ Ausstellung mit André Wnendt, Westwerk Hamburg
2014 „Ritter & Ritter“, Ausstellung mit Hans-Dieter Ritter, Galerie neue ...