Martina Ziegler
Paintings | Digital Art | Crossover Collages
Germany
About the artist
Magical double helix of intuitive painterly imagination and deconstruction
Metafoto. The term, hitherto unknown and uncommon in aesthetics, describes Martina Ziegler's innovative process of image making, in which the extremely sophisticated, analogue and digitally intertwined methodology of creative processing plays the decisive role for the artistically unique result.
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Martina ZieglerZiegler describes her art style, in which she works with painting and photography, as metafoto.
What is unique about Martina Ziegler's current work?
While old masters usually painted their motifs from nature, in modernism the multimedia and experimental process increasingly became the subject of artistic interest. Ziegler, on the other hand, has never created images. Always, the portraits she nevertheless called them were basically all imaginary objects of her creative desire.
But while a few years ago she still saw faces when painting - and in each case depicted the respective persona as if she had been her model - she subsequently moved on to disillusioning her ideal-typical figures and gradually transforming them into completely free figurations.
Artistic careerStudies:
Liberal Arts / International University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design, Cologne.
Internship: Glasmalerei Henseler, Cologne (restoration of cathedral windows)
Studies: Visual Communication / University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf (Graphic Design, Photography, Illustration).Degree: Diploma in DesignProfession: Art and Creative Director with focus on film (Member of the Board).
Further: 2001 - 2010: Freelance artistic activity in the field of painting and experimental graphics. Freelance work in the fields of design, fashion and architecture.
Since 2011: exclusively artistic freelance work.
Selection of stays abroad (relating to the artistic theme)
Tokyo // experience in a Japanese corporate culture (Seiko watches, NY Festival award).
Istanbul, Izmir // several weeks of collaboration with a Turkish creative director
Miami, Los Angeles // collaboration with a US director
Casablanca, Marrakech, Erfoud (Sahara) // film project lasting several weeks in an Islamic country
New York // independent collaboration with a film producer
London, Milan, Vienna, Barcelona, Paris // transnational European film project (creative lead and Europe-wide direction)
Works | Series
References
Awards
1995 Art Directors Club for Germany- Award- Berlin, Germany
1990 New York Festival- Finalist Award- New York, United States
1989 New York Festival- Finalist Award- New York, United States
1988 New York Festival- Finalist Award- New York, United States
1987 New York Festival- Finalist Award- New York, United States
Solo exhibitions
2021 | Düsseldorf, Germany
Multiples, Abstracts, Portraits / Ex Gallery Hans Mayer
2021 | Düsseldorf, Germany Mission Venusberg 250 Years of Beethoven Christ Church
2021 | Düsseldorf, Germany No7 PhotoPopUpFair, Virtual Visions/Metafoto, Stilwerk
11/2020 | Düsseldorf, Germany Multiples/Abstracts/Portraits, ex Galerie Hans Mayer
09/2020 | Essen, Germany Solo exhibition - Metafoto, Galerie Ludwig Kleebolte
11/2019 | Düsseldorf, Germany No6 PhotoPopupFair, Multiples and Abstracts, Stilwerk
09/2019 | Düsseldorf, Germany Solo exhibition - DNA.Multiples become Abstracts, Gallery SANDERS / SOHN
11/2018 | Düsseldorf, Germany No5 PhotoPopUpFair, Multiple Portraits, Stilwerk
12/2017 | Düsseldorf, Germany Gallery SANDERS / SOHN
10/2017 | Cologne-Bedburg, Germany Cult, Multiple and Others, Elf im Glashaus
11/2016 | Düsseldorf, Germany No2 Multiple Portraits, PhotoPopupFair, Stilwerk
10/2016 | Meerbusch, Germany Solo exhibition - Multiple and Others, Villa Löwenburg
05/2016 | Meerbusch, Germany Art from Meerbusch, Painting, Encounters, Tely Mühle Lank
05/2015 | Düsseldorf,Germany Solo exhibition - Multiple Portraits, Showroom Blennemann
05/2015| Meerbusch, Germany Art from Meerbusch, Painting, Tely Mühle Lank
12/2013 | Düsseldorf, Germany Solo exhibition Penthouse KWS 166, Encounters and Turbans
Group exhibitions
2022 Group Exhibition / Art + Co - Amstelveen, The Netherlands
2022 In motion / Sight Gallery and Art Consultancy - Offenbach, Germany
2021 Headless / Schmalfuss Gallery - Berlin, Germany
2021 Photopopup Fair No 7 / Stilwerk - Düsseldorf, Germany
2020 Art Eindhoven / Eindhoven centre - Eindhoven, Netherlands
2019 Photopopup Fair No 6 / Stilwerk - Düsseldorf, Germany
2017 Photopopup Fair No 3 / Stilwerk - Düsseldorf, Germany
2017 Cult - Elf im Glashaus / Glashaus - Cologne, Germany
2017 Various Artists / Gallery Sander I Sohn - Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 Photopopup Fair No 2 / Stilwerk - Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 Art from Meerbusch / Teloy Mühle - Meerbusch, Germany
Press
2021 Anke Kronemeyer, Rheinische Post- RP, An artist misses the audience
2019 Dr. Lars Wallerang, Rheinische Post - RP, Faces become graphics.
2019 Welt am Sonntag- Life
2019 Ingo Plaschke- NRZ , It's all in the head
2019 Dr Susanne Altweger - Journal, Düsseldorf. Martina Ziegler. The artist of metamorphoses
2016 Rheinische Post- Rheinische Post, Aesthetic art from Ilverich.
2016 Monika Götz, Rheinische Post- Rheinische Post, Art in the Villa Löwenburg