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  • Sibylle Springer: gift, 2016, Collection Birgit & Michael Schipper, Hamburg
  • Sibylle Springer: gift, installation view, GAK Bremen 2017
  • Sibylle Springer: Untitled, 2016, Collection Udo Seinsoth, Bremen
  • Sibylle Springer: Untitled, 2016, Courtesy: the artist
  • Sibylle Springer: Der Blick, 2015, Private Collection Bremen
  • Sibylle Springer: cool blue lady, 2016; Sibylle Springer: in gold, 2016; Sibylle Springer: o.T., 2016, Private Collection Bremen; Sibylle Springer: o.T., 2016, Collection J. Göpfrich, Bremen; Sibylle Springer: o.T., 2016, Collection Udo Seinsoth, Bremen; Sibylle Springer: o.T., 2016
  • Sibylle Springer: cool blue lady, 2016
  • Sibylle Springer: gift, installation view, GAK Bremen 2017
  • Sibylle Springer: gift, installation view, GAK Bremen 2017, Photo: Franziska von den Driesch
  • Sibylle Springer: gift, installation view, GAK Bremen 2017
  • Sibylle Springer: Dschungel, 2017, Courtesy the artist
  • Sibylle Springer: Dschungel, 2017, Courtesy the artist
  • Sibylle Springer: Dschungel, 2017, Courtesy the artist
  • Sibylle Springer: gift, installation view, GAK Bremen 2017
  • Sibylle Springer: moonshot, 2016, Courtesy Galerie Anita Beckers; Sibylle Springer: Selection of images by Sibylle Springer
  • Sibylle Springer: moonshot, 2016, Courtesy Galerie Anita Beckers
  • Sibylle Springer: Selection of images by Sibylle Springer
  • Sibylle Springer: Selection of images by Sibylle Springer
  • Sibylle Springer: Selection of images by Sibylle Springer
  • Sibylle Springer: chat, 2015, Collection Ulrike & Walter Schmel, Bremerhaven; Sibylle Springer: Silver Surfer, 2016, Courtesy: Galerie K', Bremen
  • Sibylle Springer: chat, 2015, Collection Ulrike & Walter Schmel, Bremerhaven

Sibylle Springer
gift

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18.03–30.04.2017

Sibylle Springer (*1975 in Münster, lives in Bremen and Berlin) is a painter. Her large-format works in acrylic on canvas are characterised by contrasts: oscillating between abstraction and figuration, revealing and concealing, beauty and horror, past and present, tradition and innovation. The title of her exhibition at the GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst furthers the ambiguity, meaning both gift-giving but also poison in German.

Sibylle Springer states that she is interested in the ambivalent and the vague, in nuances. This is also reflected in the body of work the artist creates for her solo exhibition at GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst: an exploration of historical and contemporary images of violence, physical intimacy and other taboos. In a painterly process, Springer hides the original image content from visual perception, makes it disappear in seeming monochromy, adds elements, or varies the format. By this means she opens up new ways of viewing supposedly familiar painting masterpieces and reinterprets their themes.

Besides the many large-format canvases, the exhibition presents smaller drawings that revolve around similar themes. A recreated wall from Springer’s studio displays her research work and myriad connections that serve as basis for her paintings.

A space concept which was specially developed for “gift“ strikes a contrast with the subdued palette of Sibylle Springer’s new series: the normally white walls of the GAK now resemble the colour-painted walls of classical museum presentations. Museum benches in the exhibition space add another element that fuses together historical and contemporary conventions for presenting and viewing art.

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18.03–30.04.2017

18.03.- 30.04.17

Curated by
Svea Kellner

Publication

Sibylle Springer. gift (exh. cat., eds. S. Kellner, J. de Vries, GAK, 2017)

Annual edition

Sibylle Springer: poisonous pleasure, 2018

Events

Thu 23.03.17, 7 pm
Guided tour with Svea Kellner

Thu 30.03.17, 7 pm
Sibylle Springer and Svea Kellner: Nebenklänge & Untertöne
Talk

Thu 20.04.17, 7 pm
Sibylle Springer and Irene Strese: Pasticcio & Panaché
Music and Cocktails

Thu 27.04.17, 7 pm
Guided tour with Asima Amriko

Support

Senator of Culture of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Deutsche Factoring Bank, Stiftung Bremer Wertpapierbörse, Dr. Jürgen Bonke and Frau Christiane Kehlbeck-Bonke, Martin and Marion Gömöry, Fritz and Fiona Grobien, Prof. Dr. Knut and Frau Dr. Ulrike Leitz

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