Three Positions on Gallery Weekend
The Gallery Weekend Berlin took place from April 26 to 28, 2019. The Achtzig Galerie at Hagenauer Straße 7 in Prenzlauer Berg was open on all three days from 11 AM to 7 PM with free admission, for collectors, artists, and all interested parties.
The Essentials at a Glance
- The Gallery Weekend Berlin ran from April 26 to 28, 2019.
- Sylvia Schramm showcased digital painting on metal between fashion and art.
- Photographer Dieter Hanf presented a portrait series.
- Renélo Mooschaer (UdK Berlin) exhibited acrylic and oil paintings.
Sylvia Schramm: from the fashion world
Sylvia Schramm studied fashion design at what is now the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. After that, she traveled the world as a designer and buyer for a large jeans retailer. At the age of 26, she became a central buyer at Otto-Versand in Hamburg, where she made a career and was responsible for up to 40 catalog pages. Traveling for inspiration, production, and photo shoots was part of her daily routine.
Farewell to the Fleeting
Even as a student and model, Sylvia Schramm knew the fashion scene in front of and behind the scenes, and thus also its fleeting side. After the birth of her children, she devoted herself to painting and exhibited several times before switching from brush to touch pen and tablet. After a foray into oil and acrylic, fashion became her central theme again: She designed knitwear collections and scarves.
In 2013, she decided to leave the transience of fashion behind and create something lasting. Her paintings bridge the gap between art and fashion, shaped by zeitgeist and history. With fashion scenes, she shows facets of today's image of women, between strength and femininity. Hard metal and sensual fabrics, rust and shine capture these motifs.
Digital painting on metal
Sylvia Schramm combines street art, pop art, and collage in digital painting on the tablet. Her motifs are deliberately "holey" so that the metallic background remains visible and becomes part of the image. The painterly effect is created in a long printing process, during which she repeatedly prints the files on metal as a test. This creates a play of matte and gloss, and each work remains unique. Framing is done in iron, which emphasizes the weight of the works.
Large-format cut-outs show a different approach with similar technique: The boundaries of the image blur, the figures become part of their environment. In addition, smaller, limited graphic editions on metal with neon plexiglass frames are created.
Exhibitions by Sylvia Schramm
The Hamburg "Fabrik der Künste" showcased solo exhibitions of the artist in 2015 and 2018, each featuring 35 large-format works. Since then, the Marion Stoeter Gallery has represented her works at the Affordable Art Fair in Hamburg, and they could be found at the ARTE CASA Gallery in Mallorca. Additionally, she exhibited at the "Berliner Liste" art fair and in Amsterdam. Her works were on display at the Achtzig Galerie Berlin from April 12 to May 8, 2019.
Dieter Hanf and Renélo Mooschaer
The photographer Dieter Hanf showcased a portrait series at Achtzig Galerie that focuses on the inner life of people.
Additionally, Renélo Mooschaer from the University of the Arts Berlin exhibited acrylic and oil paintings. Their dense canvases feature symbols like pyramids, owls, and horns, mysterious signs, and philosophical texts of great thinkers. They tell of the technological transformation of humans: people merge with humanoid robots, appear at the edge of the picture, and disappear again. Their bright colors and large formats are reminiscent of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Because women, in the artist's view, are significantly disadvantaged in the art market, she works under a male-sounding name.
Mooschaer was also part of the gallery's regular program, such as at the digital vernissage 2020. You can read more about the gallery in the article Kunstgalerie Berlin Achtzig for contemporary art.