Human matrix

Christiane Budig - Glass sculptures
David Rothenfels - Painting
Vernissage: Thursday 16 January 2020, 8 pm
Exhibition duration: 17 January - 7 February 2020

What David Rothenfels and Christiane Budig have in common is that they place people and their interaction with the world around them at the centre of their artistic exploration. Christiane Budig works with glass, a fragile, transparent material. She uses it to create fragments of the human body that envelop an inner void like an outer skin. The sculptures are extremely fragile, they seem transparent, but the glass distorts the view. And everything is unclear despite the transparency. The boundaries between inside and outside can no longer be precisely defined. This is precisely the interface with David Rothenfels. As a placeholder and prototype of a man in the modern business world, David Rothenfels' pictures always feature himself. David Rothenfels deals with the façade of our modern society, the ideal of beauty, the dictates of fashion and modern business behaviour. His pictures tell of the world behind this façade, a strange and surreal world. His gaze is sober and sharp, as is his translation into painting. Christiane Budig combines glass with many other materials, such as rubber, metal, wood and mirrors. She increases the expressiveness of her sculptures through this contact of materials. In David Rothenfels' paintings, reflections and mirrored surfaces thematise the strangeness of the world without contact and warmth.

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[r6_col n="9″]Vita Christiane Budig
Born in Luckenwalde in 1969, lives and works in Halle/Saale.
From 1994 to 1996, Budig studied vessel design under Prof Kittel at HKD Burg Giebichenstein and from 1996 to 2002 glass, painting and graphic art under Prof Triebsch. She was awarded the Halle Art Prize in 2018.
Participation in major international exhibitions (selection): New York (USA, 9th Triennial for Form and Content, 2004), Strasbourg (F, S'tart, 2005), Artlecture at the Glas Art Society in St. Louis (USA, 2006), Bornholm (DK, European Glass Context, 2008), Prague (CZ, Contemporary European Glass Connections, 2009), Montpellier( F, exposition d'art contemporain faite d'argile de verre,2010), Munich (D, Alexander-Tutsek-Stiftung, In the name of love - contemporary glass, 2011), Haacht (B) (international Glass Art Biennale, 2018)
Prices
2003: 1st prize winner of the international glass art prize Jutta Cuny-Franz-Award
2006: Scholarship holder of the Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt
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[r6_col n="9″]Vita David Rothenfels
Born 1982 in Nürtingen, lives and works in Frankfurt am Main | 2003-2010 studies and doctorate in Tübingen | 2013-2019 studies at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin | 2016- 2017 working stay in Brussels | February 2019 appointed master student of Ute Wöllmann
Exhibitions: 2013 art Innsbruck | 2015 Public Presentation Academy of Painting Berlin | February 2019 Graduation Presentation at the Academy of Painting Berlin
Participation in trade fairs:
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