Exhibition growth

Manuela Tirler - Steel sculptures
Christoph Primm - abstract oil painting

Exhibition duration: 3 April - 5 May 2023

Vernissage on Wednesday, 12.4.2023 from 6 - 9 pm
Introduction to the exhibition at 7 pm by Ute Wöllmann in conversation with Manuela Tirler and Christoph Primm.

The artist will be present

You can also attend the vernissage via ZOOM (from 6 - 8 pm). Please click on the following link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89076435298?pwd=bDVmcXV4YzkxS1hlV0QwTUEyTW5iZz09

Artist talk with Christoph Primm in the ROOT gallery on Monday, 24 April at 6 pm

You can also take part in the artist talk via ZOOM. Please use the following link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86272888640?pwd=UVc2VHpocW5QTjVtc1ZNWHZKQnArQT09

In the exhibition "Zuwachs", Manuela Tirler's graphic line frameworks of the sculptures, in the reduced colourfulness of the steel used, enter into a dialogue with abstract oil paintings by Christoph Primm, a colourful painting that has grown and condensed over many layers and is presented with great painterly verve.

The exhibition title "Growth" triggers a multitude of associations with condensed, organic structures and growth processes. Manuela Tirler draws inspiration for her art from the diversity of forms in nature. Her works fascinate through a close but alienated relationship between art and nature. The closeness and distance of what has grown and been created in form and materiality are the theme or playing field of many of her works. The impression of lightness in her works stands in stark contrast to the heaviness of the material used.

In Christoph Primm's work, the "growth" is created in the composition of countless layers of colour which, when laid on top of each other, document the organic growth process of a picture.

Vita Manuela Tirler

1977  born in Stuttgart, grew up in Morristown/Tennessee and Wiernsheim/Enzkreis
1998 School of Fine Arts Nürtingen
2002 - 2008 Study of free sculpture / free art at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Werner Pokorny, Micha Ullman, Markus Ambach and Rainer Ganahl
2007 Study visit with the Baden-Württemberg Scholarship in San Francisco, USA
2009 - 2010  Academic scholarship, i.e. postgraduate studies, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
2008 - 2010 Studio grant from the city of Nürtingen
2010 - 2013 Studio grant for the district of Esslingen lives and works in Plochingen, Member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg

Numerous exhibitions at home and abroad

Awards . Selection

2005 Prize of the Friends of the Academy for "Space and Time"
2006 Prize of the Friends of the Academy for "Museum for Sedimented Art"
2006 Academy Prize for "Museum for Sedimented Art"
2006 Winning the tender and realisation of the sculpture "Waldstück" for the sculpture cycle path Osterburken (in the Neckar-Odenwald district)
2007 Scholarship of the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg for California / USA First "Mixed Media"-Award of the Gallery Calstate East Bay, California
2008 3rd Klett Passagen Prize and realisation of the work
2009 Winner of the Gerlinde Beck Prize (Gerlinde Beck Foundation)
2010 Debutante Award ABK Stuttgart

Details of the picture on the invitation card:

Manuela Tirler, Weed Disc I (1), 2016, 97 x 97 x 10 cm, steel

Vita Christoph Primm

1947 born in Berlin
2006-2011 Studied painting at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin in the class of Ute Wöllmann; master student
2011-2014 Member of the ROOT producers' gallery at Savignyplatz
Since 2014 Christoph Primm is represented as an artist by the ROOT Gallery, with regular solo exhibitions including
2015 "freiflug" with the sculptor Ulrike Buhl, ROOT Gallery, Berlin;
2019 "formed - moved" with Susanna Niederer, ROOT Gallery, Berlin

He lives and works in Berlin.

Participation in trade fairs with the ROOT Gallery

2014 POSITIONS.BERLIN ; 2016, 2017, 2018 ART Karlsruhe
Details of the picture on the invitation card: Christoph Primm, Anschein IV, 2019, acrylic, oil on canvas, 70 x 70 cm

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