Vita
Brigitte Waldach (*1966 in Berlin) has become known nationally and internationally in recent years for her large-format drawings and installations on virulent socio-political themes. In her work, she combines historical and contemporary elements to question social conventions and basic values. She has gained national and international recognition in recent years with her large-format, often red-figure drawings and installations, which address controversial social and political issues such as religion and terrorism. For her series "Artificial European Landscape" (2022/23), Waldach explored the flags of the European member states. The stripes, which are unusually colorful for her, translate the concept of Europe into a formally reduced form and at the same time form a possible design for an overarching European flag.
Brigitte Waldach lives and works in Berlin.
www.waldach.com
STUDIES
| 1999 - 2000 | Master student of Georg Baselitz, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin |
| 1996 - 1999 | University of the Arts, Baselitz class, Berlin |
| 1991 - 1996 | Studied German language and literature at the TU Berlin |
| 1991 - 1993 | Studied art education and art history at the HdK Berlin |
Solo exhibitions (selection)
| 2022 | Worlds, Backnang Municipal Gallery |
| 2021 | Drawings, Foundazione Sozzani, Milan |
| 2020 | Shimmer and shine, Museum Marta, Herford |
| 2019 | Rauschen, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Spatial Drawing Existence, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus Osnabrück |
| 2018 | Crime Scene, Brigitte Waldach and Eva Schlegel, Galerie Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen |
| 2016 | Chance, Mathias Güntner Gallery, Hamburg Ideology, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense / Denmark |
| 2015 | World, Gallery Conrads, Düsseldorf The 4th Dimension, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf |
| 2013 | Brain Box Ideology, solo project presented by Galerie Bo Bjerggaard, abc Berlin Endless Epilogue, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf |
| 2012 | Pathos, Bo Bjerggaard Gallery, Copenhagen |
| 2011 | Fall, Rogaland Museum, Stavanger |
| 2010 | Brigitte Waldach, drawings and installations, Kunsthalle Emden Fall, Konstmuseum Kalmar, Sweden Fall, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Losing the Leitmotif, Senda Gallery, Barcelona |
| 2009 | Solo show, art brussels Inland, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam |
| 2008 | Import, Bo Bjerggaard Gallery, Copenhagen Still, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2007 | sichtung rot - private stories, Museo Paco Das Artes, São Paulo trailer, DNA Galerie, Berlin |
| 2006 | sichtung rot - Injections of reality, DNA Gallery, Berlin sichtung rot - abseitig, DNA Gallery (special guest program berlin biennale) |
| 2005 | sichtung rot - signs, Gallery Bakh, Seoul sichtung rot - Kammerspiele, DNA Gallery, Berlin sichtung rot - a chamber play, Kunstverein Baden, Austria Schwarze Löcher, Westwerk, Hamburg Begehbar!, Association for Original Etching, Munich |
Group exhibitions (selection)
| 2022 | Mythos Wald, Kunsthalle Emden |
| 2020 | Allover, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Works on Paper, Galerie Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen Chart Art Fair, Copenhagen |
| 2019 | Distinguished by Marburger Kunstverein Unlimited Space, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba Biennial, Brazil Space is the Place, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Subversive, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin Reality Check, Kunstraum Potsdam Works on Paper, Galerie Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen100 years of women's suffrage,19+1 female artists, German Bundestag, Berlin |
| 2018 | Killing me softly, Salon Dahlmann, Miettinen Collection, Berlin 2016 Sein. Face. Body, St. Adalbert, Berlin |
| 2015 | PIN - Auction, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Himmelwärts, Altana Cultural Foundation / Museum Haus Sinclair, Bad Homburg Journey through time, Kunsthalle Emden ́4 7 11`, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney |
| 2014 | Branched, Altana Cultural Foundation / Museum Haus Sinclair, Bad Homburg Dear Draughtsman Draw Me, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin 6th Biennale of Drawing - Stroke by Stroke, Kunstverein Eislingen Choices II Large Scale, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf Choices - Works on paper, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf |
| 2013 | Mirror of the soul. Landscapes from the Graphische Sammlung, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf Guest performance Rhineland, Mathias Güntner Gallery, Hamburg Hängung 9, artwork (Klein Collection) Eberdingen-Nussdorf (Stuttgart) Farbe bekennen, MARTa Museum Herford |
| 2012 | Disegno, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf Rouge, Maison Particuliére, Brussels |
| 2011 | Wax - A New Sensualism in Contemporary Sculpture, Kunstverein Kopenhagen Berlin zeichnet!, Kunsthalle Dominikaner Kirche, Osnabrück Berlin draws!, Art Foyer of the Versicherungskammer Bayern, Munich Giving space to drawing. Bettina van Haaren, Pia Linz, Brigitte Waldach, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim Bissingen |
| 2010 | Expanded Drawing, Isabel Hurley Gallery, Malaga Hängung#6, Kunstwerk (Klein Collection), Eberdingen-Nussdorf Berlin Drawing, Ludwig Museum Koblenz 2009 Portrait Berlin, Museo Nacional Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile Portrait Berlin, Fotofestival Buenos Aires |
| 2008 | Rohkunstbau - 3 Colors Red, Potsdam Portrait Berlin, Goethe Institute Krakow Portrait Berlin, Goethe Institute Riga Portrait Berlin, Goethe Institute Ljubljana |
| 2007 | Neue Heimat, Berlinische Galerie New Acquisitions, Berlinische Galerie Portrait Berlin, Goethe Institute Washington DC |
| 2006 | Linie Plastik, Dina4 Projekte, Munich Shumen - Biennale, Bulgaria |
| 2005 | Jahresgaben exhibition, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
Prizes, scholarships, projects (selection)
| 2020 | Marta Prize of the Wemhöner Foundation |
| 2007 | ifa - Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (São Paulo) |
| 2004 | Project grant from the Berlin Senate |
| 2001 | DAAD travel grant for New York City / Project funding from the Berlin Senate |
| 2000 | Scholarship for young researchers (NaFöG) (working stay in New York) |
Teaching activity
| 2022 | Perspectives, lecture at the TU-Berlin, Institute for Architecture |
| 2020 | Works, lecture at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle |
| 2019 | Existence, artist talk by Brigitte Waldach and Mechthild Achelwilm, Felix Nussbaum House, Osnabrück The Goldberg Variations, An Introduction, Reinbeck Hallen, Berlin How is a spatial drawing created? |
| 2018 | Ariadne in the picture labyrinth - original, quotation and appropriation, Museum Marta Herford |
| 2004-2016 | Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin in the field of continuing education, specializing in art history and contemporary art exhibitions.Seminars, introductions and guided tours on the subject of artists and their strategies in contemporary art.Practical events on the subject of nudes, drawing and individual presentation possibilities. |
| 1993-1994 | Tutor with teaching duties at the Institute for Modern German Philology at the Technical University of Berlin.Introduction to Modern German Literature, substitution of proseminars and advanced tutorials, e.g. on Goethe, Kafka and General Literature after 1945. |
| 1991-2003 | Lecturer at the VHS Berlin.Portfolio preparation courses, specializing in fashion graphics / drawing / painting. |
Collections (selection)
Albertina Vienna, Altana Kulturstiftung, Aros - Kunstmuseum Aarhus, Denmark, Berlinische Galerie Berlin, Internationales Haus der Fotografie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (Gundlach Foundation), Kunsthalle Emden, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, KUNSTWERK, Sammlung Klein Everdingen, Landesregierung Schleswig Holstein, Kiel, Museum Marta Herford, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Nationalbank Essen, NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Artothek), Rogaland Museum Stavanger, Wemhöner Collection, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Stiftung Moritzburg, Landesmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt, Sprengel Museum Hannover