Marita Czepa

Artist portrait

2012-2017 studied at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin, master student of Ute Wöllmann | since 2017 lecturer and freelance artist | since 2014 represented by Galerie ROOT, Berlin | since 2022 member of the Künstlersonderbund in Germany | lives and works in Berlin

www.marita.czepa.net

Participation in plein airs
"ROOT on the road" with the ROOT Berlin gallery:
2025 Artists without shelter, Berlin | 2024 Interwoven realities, Bielefeld | 2023 Drought in Brandenburg | 2022 On the trail of Gustav Klimt at Attersee, Austria | 2019 On the trail of our plastic waste from Berlin to Schleswig-Holstein on the beaches of the Baltic Sea | 2016 On the trail of the Castor transports from Berlin to Gorleben | 2015 Along the power line through the Uckermark

Participation in trade fairs: 2019, 2018 art KARLSRUHE, 2013 Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.)

Artistic position

Marita Czepa is concerned with beauty and destruction; she is interested in the danger that emanates from our human behaviour. Her painted and drawn series are created exclusively on found or used paper. In plein-airs for the environment, she supports environmental initiatives with her works.

 

In the series "Finds - Archaeology of the future" she thematises the discarding, appreciation and preservation of things of mass consumption. Since 2015, she has been creating beguilingly realistic coloured pencil drawings on used index cards or cardboard boxes. This series now comprises over 800 works.

 

In her series "Land" Marita Czepa paints over old magazine papers with ink and watercolour. The watercolour gains an independent character and a new presence on these surfaces. She creates colourful landscapes that are increasingly threatened by human intervention. She uses the sensitive technique of watercolour as an artistic approach to the vulnerability of nature.

Exhibitions

Reusable

ROOT Gallery, Berlin, 2018

History. What remains?

Sarasin Gallery, Basel, Switzerland, 2021

Cancelled

Pyramid exhibition centre, Berlin, 2024

Interwoven realities

Gallery Tor6, Bielefeld, 2024

Or can that go away?

Historical Museum,

Bielefeld, 2025

(Exhibitions, a selection)

2025 "Or can it go away?", Historical Museum, Bielefeld

2024 "1.5°C - Landscapes in times of global warming", Academy of Painting Berlin

2024 "Aufgehoben" with Matthias Stuchtey, Exhibition Centre Pyramid, Berlin

2024 "Land creates longing - Homage to Caspar David Friedrich", artists' association in Germany, Essenheim Art Forum

2023 "Drought", Kunstruine Reichenow, ROOT Gallery, Berlin

2023 "Border crossings", artists' association in Germany, Königshain Castle, Görlitz

2022 "Die Kleinen Dinge" (The Small Things), Artists' Union in Germany, Realism Gallery Berlin

2021 "History. What remains" with Thomas Thüring, Galerie Sarasin, Basel, Switzerland

2021 "History. What remains" with Thomas Thüring, ROOT Gallery, Berlin

2019 "From Baltic Sea rubbish to artwork", ROOT Gallery, Berlin and Eckernförde

2018 "Mehrweg" with Matthias Stuchtey, ROOT Gallery, Berlin

2016 "Don't start to stop", Kunstverein Templin

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