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HER POWER Global Female Contemporary Art Online Exhibition 2021 · Chapter Thirteen

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2021 · HER POWER

The prologue of the "Life．Blossom” Exhibition - "Her Power" Online Exhibition, was jointly initiated by HK Art of Nature International Female Art Research Society, Art Life Foundation, and female artists and art institutions.

The first stage will bring the recommendations from our academic consultants, invited curators and International Women Artists Federation as pilot. Up to now, we have received works from around 120 artists from more than 30 regions (including oil paintings, ink paintings, installations, sculptures, photography, digital images, etc.).

The call for works is still open to public. The online exhibition will also be published by region, theme, category, subject, or material.

The content of the online exhibition will be presented on Art of Nature’s official website and the platform of "Her Art", Facebook, and overseas online platforms.

HER POWER

Art of Nature Intrenational Female Art Online Exhibition

Orgainisors :

HK Art of Nature International Female Art Research Society, Art Life Foundation

2021 · HER POWER· THIRTEEN

The question of truth · Generation and disappearance · Waves

Sad tropical · Lubrication · Hillary's imagination · Starry sky

Nina E. Schönefeld

A QUESTION OF TRUTH

Nina E. Schönefeld was born in Berlin. She is half Polish and half German. She studied at the University of Arts in Berlin (UDK) and at the Royal College of Art in London. For several years she has given lectures in Fine Art at private Art Colleges. Together with Marina Wilde she founded "Last Night In Berlin" a cultural platform about art openings in Berlin. She holds a Master of Arts and a PhD in Art Theory (Dr. Phil.). Schönefeld lives and works in Berlin (& sometimes in Ibiza).

NINA E. SCHONEFELD

Selected Shows:

In 2017 her work was shown @Fahrbereitschaft Berlin (solo show), @Diskurs Gallery Berlin and there was a screening of her video works on Manhattan Bridge in New York.

At the end of the year 2018 Schönefeld had a solo show at Berlinische Galerie (12 x 12 IBB video space).At the beginning of 2019 she had several shows in Berlin (Villa Heike / New Lage Egal Gallery / Mitte Media Festival).

In summer 2020 she had shows @SchauFenster Galerie and @Galerie la pierre large, Strasbourg, France. Her work is still on display @Contemplatio.art, curated by Barbara Green and @COVIDecameron by Momentum Worldwide.

The installation B. T. R. was exhibited @DIGITALE Düsseldorf 2020 (@Weltkunstzimmer). The show At The Limit @Kunsthalle Bratislava in Slovakia was on display until 2021.

In February/ March 2021 she presented her video work P.A.R.A.D.I.S.E. @Roppongi Art Night TOKYO, Japan and @Points of Resistance @Zionskirche (Momentum Worldwide / KleinerVonWiese Gallery).

Upcoming shows in 2021 will be Corona Culture @Alte Münze Berlin, Embark @129 GALLERY (exhibition boat), @ARTSPRING-Festival in Berlin, @Art Space Changsha City in China, Am Limit @Cole mine Důl Michal in Ostrava / Czech Republic (supported by the Goethe-Institutes in Prague & Bratislava). In autumn she will have a show @CICA Museum in Korea.

D A R K W A T E R S, video artwork

D A R K W A T E R S & S N O W F O X

2018/2019

12 X 12 video space @Berlinische Galerie

Museum Berlin

AT THE LIMIT

2020/21

B. T. R. @Kunsthalle Bratislava, Museum Slovakia

AT THE LIMIT

2020/21

B. T. R. @Kunsthalle Bratislava, Museum Slovakia

Anna Gohmert

GENERATION & DISAPPEARANCE

Anna Gohmert’s artistic work focuses on dealing with her own biography. It is indeed possible to address this question in an infinite number of ways, ranging from the degree to which circumstances dominate conditions, to how the course of events might have been different if one had taken control. The challenges & revelations of life form the context.

In Gohmert’s work, family members & friends often appear as narrative carriers, performers, and protagonists. Gohmert affectionately refers to them as her sparring partners. She explores memory, speechlessness & survival strategies by means of text, video, photography & performance – often in combination. The works follow a metonymic logic. If she is reborn, she will be a jigsaw puzzle with the motif of a treasure map.

ANNA GOHMERT

Selected Exhibitions:

Beyond the Pain, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, group exhibition, 10.Oktober 2020 - 30.Mai 2021

"Glow Body Glow - Meine Narbe schmiegt sich an mich, als sei sie ein Geschmeide“ - Maximilians Forum München, Videoprogramm "Die Narbe juckt" in the exhibition Spaggia Libera von Serena Ferrario 23.July.2020 - 20.September.2020

Details of an installation titled ‘Totes Mehr’, 2020, projection screen overgrown with alum

"Three lengths of fabric form curtains, which separate the rooms and form a corridor leading to the exit. Another piece of fabric is hung flat in front of the wall and used as a surface for vertical video projection. Gohmert showed her female relatives-they were all barefoot and dressed in red clothes that fluttered in the wind like hair. Sometimes they hold hands, and then everyone is alone again.

Gohmert planted a crystal lawn on the fabric-the crystal itself is indeed inorganic, but it still undergoes a metaphorical process of generation and disappearance."

Details of an installation titled ‘Totes Mehr’, 2020, projection screen overgrown with alum

Lilya Pavlovic Dear

WAVES

Lilya Pavlovic Dear is an artist living a "nomadic" life. She often moves from one country to another, and as a result she has been exposed to many different cultures. "Waves" is the theme she presented in this online exhibition.

LILYA PAVLOVIC DEAR

French artist, Lilya lives and works in Paris. B.A. in Painting, Frescoes, and Mosaics, Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, 1970, and professor at the School of Fine Arts, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, 1975 - 1978. Lilya’s works are in private and public collections in Europe, China, and the USA.

Selected Exhibitions:

2021- Orenda International Galerie Paris

2020- Galerie Tholosan Bandol, French Riviera

2019- Orenda International Galerie Paris

- Cultural Forum Shenzhen

- Art Fair Shenzhen

2018- Galerie Thomé Paris

2017- UNESCO Venice

- Confucius Academy Guiyang, China

- Library of Congress Washington D,C

2016- Galerie Marie Laure de l’Ecotais Paris

Nymph, Acrylic on paper, mounted onto canvas, 116 x 81 cm

Sea Foam 2 , Mixed media on canvas, 73 x 92 cm

Under the Water, Acrylic on canvas, 46 x 55 cm

White Wave, Acrylic on canvas, 56 x 66 cm

Gallery space

Verena Issel

SAD TROPICAL

Verena Issel's artworks appear vivid, colorful, happy, humorous. She is a painter as well as an object artist.

Her installations may include a whole room at the exhibition. She uses daily life objects and transforms them to often natural-seeming and contrasting, but always aesthetic signs in her arrangements. Her work demonstrates, that a beautiful or happy state is never standing still, but always changing. There can be seen references to artists such as matisse or picasso in her cutted paintings.

VERENA ISSEL

Verena Issel was born in 1982 in Munich, Germany. She holds the german and the norwegan citizenship.She did an MA in Philology and studied fine arts at the Academy and the University in Hamburg.

Important Exhibitions:

More Moor: Projektraum Trottoir Hamburg, solo show, 2009.

Da Hong Pao, Gallery Sheng, Shanghai, solo show, 2011.

Cargo: Kunstraum Michael Barthel, Leipzig, solo show, 2013.

Retail Therapy, Trafo Kunsthall, Oslo, solo show, 2017.

Silent Utopia (Murals of a Tourist), Zarya center contemporary art, Vladiwostok, solo show, 2018.

ARGO – WabiSabi meets west, C. A. B. Kobe, Japan, solo show, 2019.

Traurige Tropen, 4 m x 4 m x 2.5 m, Mixed media

Verena Issel was born in 1982 in Munich, Germany. She holds the german and the norwegan citizenship.She did an MA in Philology and studied fine arts at the Academy and the University in Hamburg.

Important Exhibitions:

More Moor: Projektraum Trottoir Hamburg, solo show, 2009.

Da Hong Pao, Gallery Sheng, Shanghai, solo show, 2011.

Cargo: Kunstraum Michael Barthel, Leipzig, solo show, 2013.

Retail Therapy, Trafo Kunsthall, Oslo, solo show, 2017.

Silent Utopia (Murals of a Tourist), Zarya center contemporary art, Vladiwostok, solo show, 2018.

ARGO – WabiSabi meets west, C. A. B. Kobe, Japan, solo show, 2019.

Title: January Depression (Remedy)

Medium: Acrylic on cardboard with household items,

Size: Each 42 cm x 30 cm (x4)

Year: 2021

Photo credit: Fred Dott, Hamburg

Title: January Depression (Remedy)

Medium: Acrylic on cardboard with household items,

Size: Each 42 cm x 30 cm (x4)

Year: 2021

Photo credit: Fred Dott, Hamburg

Title: Trophy Delight

Medium: Mixed media

Size: 8 m x 8 m.
Year: 2014

Ausstellungsansicht Galerie Dorothea Schlüter, Hamburg,

Title: Trophy Delight

Medium: Mixed media

Size: 8 m x 8 m.
Year: 2014

Ausstellungsansicht Galerie Dorothea Schlüter, Hamburg,

Title: Trophy Delight

Medium: Mixed media

Size: 8 m x 8 m.
Year: 2014

Ausstellungsansicht Galerie Dorothea Schlüter, Hamburg,

Anik Lazar

LUBRICATION

In Anik Lazar's paintings and installations she showcases her interest for the materials grease and oil. These have different connotations: you can find grease in the beauty industry, in heavy machines, as well as in workshops. It is necessary in the context of friction. There is eventually an erotical context in these materials. It has mainly bodily reference, but in absolutely different spots. So there may be a metaphor for human bodies as machines.

ANIK LAZAR

Anik Lazar was born in 1982 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg.She held three stipends in Hamburg, got the advancement of the Karl H. Ditze Stiftung and participated at the artist exchange program Hamburg-Busan of the Kulturbehörde Hamburg.

Selected Exhibitions:

Itzel & Lazar, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg (mit Suse Itzel), 2015.

Deviationen, Mom Art Space, Hamburg (mit Anna Grath), 2017.

Psycho Test Apocalyps, Tiefgarage, Köln, soloshow, 2018.

She, Galerie der Villa, Hamburg (mit Hans Hübener), 2019.

Mannheimer Sommer, Nationaltheater Mannheim, 2020.

Capsule City, Große Wallanlagen, Hamburg, 2021.

Title: Masque Majestueux Votre Visage

Year: 2021
Medium: acrylic (airbrush) on advertising poster, spray paint on glass
Size: 24 x 18 cm

Title: Fett
Year: 2016
Medium: acrylic (airbrush) on advertising poster, spray paint on glass
Size: 100 x 70,5 cm

Title: Fairy’s Flow

Year: 2021
Medium: acrylic and glitter on PVC
Size: 100 x 70 cm

Title: Lotus and Santal

Year: 2021
Medium: acrylic (airbrush) on advertising poster, spray paint on glass
Size: 15 x 10 cm

Title: Hydra Essential

Year: 2021
Medium: acrylic (airbrush) on advertising poster, spray paint on glass
Size: 18 x 13 cm

Sarah Sole

HILLARY'S IMAGINATION

For nearly a decade Sarah Sole has explored narratives within the “Hillary” imaginary through painting, photo-montage, and more recently, animation. In her work, “Hillary” is construed as an amalgamation of bodies,often dissonant, using imagery that mixes past and present, reflecting both the unconscious projections in the collective conception of “Hillary” and Sole’s need to examine and re-interpret what she can. Essentially, “Hillary” has become a narrative device for Sole, a means to explore private desire within a kaleidoscope of collective hallucinations which signal more about who we are than the woman herself.

SARAH SOLE

Important Exhibitions:

2017 "We Need To Talk", Petzel Gallery, New York, NY

2017 "Post Election Show", September Gallery, Hudson, NY

2016 "The Presidents", Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX

2016 "The Art oÿ Politics", Politicon 2016, Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA

2014 Mark of the Feminine", curated by Regine Basha, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

2009 "Hillary, Real and ImaĀined", Coup d'oeil Art Consortium, New Orleans, LA (Solo Exhibition)

Tarzan, 122 x 137 cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2016

Red Gun, 37 x 28 in, Acrylic on canvas, 2014

What happened, 80 x 60 cm, Oil on canvas, 2014

Don't Hate Me, 91.5 x 91.5 cm, Oil on canvas, 2014

Jackson, 35.5 x 28 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2016

Teddy, 35.5 x 28 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2016

Chester, 2016

Filmore, 2016

Cristina Barroso

STARRY SKY

Cristina Barroso‘s paintings consist of several layers, the ground layer mostly comes from everyday life cartography. The geography has a special meaning in her work, where she creates a place often expanded into the universe. Elements like stars appear sparkling like pearls on a dark background. With this, Cristina Barroso refers to a theme she has been working on since the 1990s. In addition, she introduced signs and symbols used in astronomy, which she adds to the geographic map material giving an additional level of meaning to her paintings. Place and location of a person and ultimately of herself run through Cristina Barroso‘s work like a continuous thread — refering to the earth, the universe, space in general. Her images reflect this process in a way that they are not always flat but become reliefs and cubes into the space.

CRISTINA BARROSO

1958 born in São Paulo, Brazil 1978 - 83 Study of Philosophy and Fine Art A Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, BFA. 1983 - 92 lived and worked in San Francisco, São Paulo, Milano and Berlin.

Important Exhibitions:

2019 Um Mundo (and Dani Eshet), Galerie BildKultur, Stuttgart

2013 Cosmopolitanism, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern

2008 New Walls from Europe, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, NYC

2000 Cristina Barroso, Museu de Arte, Ribeirão Preto

1996 Europäisches Patentamt, München

1994 Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo