Growth and shapes

The "Growth and Form" exhibition presents wood and grass in a new setting. Both are successful survival concepts in nature. Wood and grass are therefore familiar to many people in this world and are presented to us anew in this exhibition. However, the two artists are not only linked by their artistic approach, which thematically takes nature as its starting point, but also by their shared life as a couple. They live and work near Bonn in Grafschaft Nierendorf and ran the Raum für Kunst und Natur in Bonn together from 2009 to 2014.

As an artist Cornelia Genschow dedicated to one topic: Grass. Her artistic methods for visualising the world of grasses are as varied as her thematic focus: She collects grasses, examines the captured abundance of a tuft of grass, explores which and how many grasses grow in different places, creates herbraria, paints the universe of blades of grass and pieces of turf in an infinite variety of green tones in oil paintings, draws them in original and over-grass, cuts stencils and sprays grass graffiti on streets and walls, weaves tufts of grass into plaits in meadows. Her enlarged hyperrealism changes our viewing habits to such an extent that the viewer can hardly believe what they are seeing. It's just grass. Is that suitable as a motif for an oil painting? Is that supposed to be grass? No, it is art, because it confronts us with something we have never seen before.

Vita Cornelia Genschow

1974 Born in Dresden, D | Lives and works in Bonn and Grafschaft, D | Travelling in Europe, North and Central America, Africa, Russia | 1996-2000 Studied painting with Prof. Uwe Battenberg and Prof. Andreas Reichel, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Bonn/Alfter | 2002-03 Study of Philosophy, University of Bonn | Teaching assignments: 2005-07 Lectureship in Painting, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Bonn/Alfter | 2005-08 Lectureship in Painting and Drawing, University of Bonn | 2008/2011 Lectureship in Painting and Drawing, Arp Museum, Remagen | 2012-13 Lectureship in Drawing, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Department of Design | 2011-15 Lectureship in Painting and Drawing, Alanus European Forum for Intercultural Dialogue e. V., Bonn. V., Bonn/Alfter | since 2014 Lectureship at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin | since 2009 Founding member and curator of Raum für Kunst und Natur, Bonn | since 2015 Raum für Kunst und Natur, Bonn / Cornelia Genschow Galerie // Exhibitions: 2017 and 2018 art KARLSRUHE, Galerie ROOT // Works in public collections: Kunstmuseum Bonn | Landesmuseum Oldenburg | Artothek Bonner Kunstverein | Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg |

Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn

Samo Skoberne is a wood sculptor who, in addition to oak and walnut, also enjoys working with atypical woods such as ivy. In a first step, his work consists of listening into the wood and attentively registering the direction of growth of a trunk or branch, working out twisted square pieces of wood from these, which he then bundles together again in a second step to create his sculptures and installations. As a concentrated substrate, the power current and rhythm of grown wood is revealed. Samo Skoberne subtly transforms heavy wood into an almost volatile aggregate state of itself, which seems to dance with the surrounding air.

Vita Samo Skoberne

Samo Skoberne
born 1965 in Celje, Slovenia

Scholarships / Prizes:

2007 Working scholarship "Artist in Residence" Celje, Slovenia

2004 Special prize LandArt Symposium Schloss Dyck, Neuss

1995-1999 Annual scholarship GLS Bank, Bonn

1995-1999 Scholarship Telekom Slovenija

Works in public collections:

Artothek Bonner Kunstverein

Federal Agency for Nature Conservation Bonn

Collection Galerija Bozidar Jakc, Kostanjevica Krki, Slovenia

Projects

2014 | International Sculpture Symposium Beerse, Belgium, 2014 | Close to Nature, Pöllauer Tal Nature Park, Austria, 2010 | Sculpture Park Bad Gleichenberg, Austria, 2009 | Sculpture Park Bad Gleichenberg, Austria, 2008 | Forest Art Celje, Slovenia, 2008 | Wood promotion Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2008 | Street Art Graz, Austria, 2008 | Street Art Celje, Slovenia, 2008 | International Sculpture Symposium Kostanjevica, Slovenia, 2008 | Artist in residence Celje, Slovenia, 2006 | LandArt Symposium Füssen, Germany, 2006 | Art on the Berg Canal, Germany, 2004 | GozdArt Celje, Slovenia, 2003 | European Sculpture Symposium, Netherlands, 2001