Christa Haack
Paintings
Germany
About the artist
"My paintings are comparable to our life, which also brings surprises".
Christa Haack is an experienced German painter who is equally at home in European metropolises such as Paris and London as in idyllic Breisgau, and paints in an expressive abstract manner. Her work oscillates around cold and warm colour spectra that are always in dialogue with the artist's innermost being.
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The starting point of her dynamic abstractions is a subtle intuition, which she captures on canvas through different materials and sumptuous colours. In each of her works, the artist celebrates colour in its very own texture as the pure essence of painting. By using a wide variety of materials, the processual nature of artistic work becomes very clear. First, textures are created on the canvas through the finest painting materials, such as marble powder and the so-called champagne chalk. This is followed by the first applications of paint, which sometimes disappear again so that only the idea of the former colour field still resonates on the tableau. In further steps, the artist uses stains and glazes to make highly pigmented acrylic colours vibrate. Christa Haack lets colour surfaces break up, overlaps, shifts and sometimes destroys the resulting areas. In an intimate examination of colour and composition, she thus enters into a flowing creative process, the end of which must be sensed anew each time. Christa Haack trained at academies in Paris and London, where she first learned exact observation and the profound use of painting media before freeing herself from conventional, motif-bound painting. Through numerous workshops and the lively international exchange with artists, the work of this committed artist continues to develop. Her works are characterised by painterly freedom, which enables her to translate her inspirations into colourful and profound paintings. The artist draws from an enormously rich visual fund, which she abstracts and makes visible to the viewer as moving colour. Christa Haack's works are known to an international audience through exhibitions and purchases in England, Italy, France, Switzerland, the USA, China and Canada, among others. You will find a selection of her works here in the Gallery - enjoy discovering them. Vita Born in Lüneburg, grew up in Saarland on the French border, since 2014 living in Freiburg/Breisgau - studio in Gutach/Breisgau 1984 to 1989 lived in Paris 1988 to 1989 studies at the Union Central of the Arts Decoratifs Paris - art history 1991 to 2000 independent art business Meckenheim / Bonn 1993 to 2000 board member (organiser) of the artists' association Regenbogen Meckenheim / Bonn 1999 to 2000 founding member and board member of the artists' group Kunst Forum 99 Rheinbach / Bonn 2000 to 2014 resident in London 2003 to 2006 Studies at the Hampstead School of Art - Kings College Campus - London - focus on painting 2003 Summer School with Sharon Finmark - London - intensive study - watercolour painting 2010 Master Class with Alexander Jeanmaire, Zurich - abstract painting 2017 Seminar - Curating and Teaching - EMK Freiburg since 2006 Intensive studies at the State Academy of Art - Bad Reichenhall - focus on abstract painting
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Awards
2019 Kunst in Szene- 1st Audience Award Exhibition " Kunst in Szene"- Freiburg, Germany 2017 Audience Award of the Abstract Art Academy- 2nd Audience Award- Freiburg, Germany 2015 Palm Art Award- Recognition Prize- Quedlinburg, Germany 2015 Artistes du Monde Cannes- Art Award of the City " Mouans Sartoux -- Cannes, France 2015 KITZ ART Award- Certificate of Excellence- Kitzbühel, Austria 2014 Palm Art Award- Certificate of Excellence- Quedlinburg, Austria
Solo exhibitions
2022 Art in the Kajo / Shop window design - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2021 Freiburg(er)Leben - Freiburg (organiser) / Meckelhalle Sparkasse Freiburg Nördlicher Breisgau - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2018 Gallery Exhibition / Galerie Artinnovation - Innsbruck, Germany 2017 Gallery Art & Med / Gallery Uniklinik Freiburg - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2016 Power Centres Painting / Gallery Beck - Homburg/Saar, Germany 2016 Abstract painting / Galerie Sparkasse Freiburg - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2015 Gallery exhibition / Galerie Kass - Innsbruck, Austria 2013 Abstract meets Abstract / Gallery Artisan 80 - London, United Kingdom 2011 Gallery exhibition / Gallery Studio 108 - London, United Kingdom 2009 Gallery Exhibition / GHIL London - London, United Kingdom
Group exhibitions
2023 Kunst in Szene 2023 - Organiser / Aula der Weiherhofschulen - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2023 Spring in the City - Organiser - / Gallery Schwarzwaldcity - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2023 Kunst macht sichtbar - Organiser - / Gallery Meckelhalle - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2023 Kunstfetival Emmerich / PAN Museum Emmerich - Emmerich, Germany 2023 ART Creation / Board Building AWO - Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2022 Art in Scene - Organiser / Aula Weiherhofschulen - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2022 POP UP GALLERY / POP UP Gallery Lörrach - Lörrach, Germany 2022 Art in Glonn / old monastery school - Glonn/Munich, Germany 2022 POP UP 2 / Gallery at the Seemaxx - Radolfzell, Germany 2021 POP UP GALLERY / REWE Centrum - Lörrach, Germany 2021 Kunst in Szene - Organiser / Aula Weiherhofschulen - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2021 Climate Change - KV Deggendorf / Basel Novum Art Center - Basel, Switzerland 2020 Anduma: Building Bridges / Casale Monferrato-Italy - Monferrato, Italy 2020 Our City in "City" / City Center - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2020 Art in Scene - Organiser - / Aula Weierhof - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2020 Art box Project Zurich 1.0 / Zurich Main Station - Zurich, Switzerland 2020 Art first right / Labour Court Freiburg - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2019 Art in scene / Aula Weierhof - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 2019 Autumn group exhibition / Gallery - Calgary, Canada 2019 Spring Exhibition / Back to the Picture Gallery. Represented by TryItArt - San Francisco, United States 2019 Spring Exhibition / Try it Art Gallery - Bragg Creek, Canada 2018 X-MAS Exhibition / Gallery KUN:ST Quartier - Leonberg, Germany 2018 Art Salzburg / Messe Salzburg - Salzburg, Austria 2017 Berlin List 2017 / Messe Berlin - Berlin, Germany 2017 ART:PUL / Pulheim rolling mill - Pulheim, Germany 2017 Art Salzburg / Messe Salzburg - Salzburg, Austria 2017 Artconnection 2017 / Aula Carolina - Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany 2017 Gallery Exhibition / Galerie Ewa Helena - Hamburg, Germany 2016 21st ART Innsbruck / Messe Innsbruck - Innsbruck, Austria 2016 ARTS Plastiques Strasbourg / Pavillon Josésphine - Strasbourg, France 2016 Villa Berberich / Villa Berberich - Bad Säckingen, Germany 2016 Gallery Exhibition / ART Space Gallery - New York, United States 2015 Exposition Artistes du Monde / Cannes Fair - Cannes, France 2015 ST-ART 2015 / Strasbourg Fair - Strasbourg, France 2015 10th ART Innsbruck / Fair Innsruck - Innsbruck, Austria 2014 Arte Binningen / Kronenmattsaal - Binningen, Switzerland 2014 Gallery Exhibition / Rietumu Bank Gallery - Riga, Latvia 2014 SHAMAL / Chiesa San Nicolao - Bellano, Italy 2013 East Finchley Artists / Gallery Literary & Scientific Institution - London, United Kingdom
Museum exhibitions
Collections 2022 Art in the KAJO, Germany 2020 Art First Right , Germany
Press
2015 Michaela Buchheister- From the silent atmosphere of the unknown