colorfields and marks. actually lost in dots .....

ART GALLERY
KARIN MARTINA WLOCZYK

Berlin, Germany •
Artist (painting) •

I am a painter and violinteacher in Berlin. My works have been exhibited for over 25 years and are represented in private and public collections.

Painting and my violin have accompanied me since early childhood.

My preferred basic form is colorfields, that find expression in a variety of forms, often self-invented techniques and with different media, mostly in series.
This perhaps corresponds to the musical form 'theme with variations'.

The formal and technical variations in my paintings arise in correspondence with my respective life themes and situations.... visual experiences from my environment provide the initial spark.

The selection of works presented here is divided into three categories:

dots (2022- )

stripes (2013-2015)

colorfields (2005-2012)

The tension between freedom and its limitation is my main theme . How much structure does freedom need in order to be able to develop to its maximum .....this is an important question for me.
Especially Classisal Music with its many specifications and Abstract Painting in which everything is possible ...this theme can be found in my paintings, mostly in the use of the line as a limiting element,
or-actually- in my 'dots' as the only structure-forming marks .
It seams that in my latest series, a mixture of painting and drawing, the idea of colorfields sometimes move into the background ... I'm okay with it.

In general, the dots series brings an unexpected additional benefit to my art... that is the meditative flow during the constant repetition of dots. I get bored very quickly with traditional meditation, but these abstract pointillist paintings require a high degree of mindfulness and presence.
So, if some people think, that the dots are a strict corset ... the freedom here lies in painting them, nothing more and nothing less. It's about the process, not the result. I would be happy if some of this deceleration spilled over to one or another viewer.
Recently, I found an artist on the Internet, Joachim Szymczak (geb.1952), who summarises his abstract paintings made of dots by the term "meditative pointilism".
Although following a slightly different approach, I find my current works very aptly described by this term, too.



CV

Born 1964 in Düsseldorf, Germany,
I have been living in Berlin as an independent artist and violin teacher for over thirty years.

Solo exhibitions

2018 Beginenwerk e.V., Berlin
2018 Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin
2015 Kapelle im Friedrichswerderschen Kirchhof
2013 Kunsthaus Flora, Berlin Mahlsdorf
2011 SchmuckGalerie Aquamarin, Berlin
2010 Galerie Rostro Art, Berlin Wilmersdorf
2009 Ernst-Klett-Verlag, Berlin Mitte
2009 Alte Bahnhofshalle, Berlin Friedenau
2008 Berliner Buchhändlerkeller
2007 Zopfstil Wohndesign, Berlin
2006 PianoGalerie Pariser Straße, Berlin
2005 Arbeitsgericht Berlin
2004 Zopfstil Wohndesign, Berlin
2003 Galerie 44, Vilsbiburg (Landshut)
2002 Landtag Brandenburg,
Potsdam
RahmenGalerie Hoffmann, Düsseldorf
2001 Galerie Storkower Bogen, Berlin
GRS Berlin
2000 Berliner Sparkasse
1998 Sender Freies Berlin

Group exhibitions

2024 Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
2024 artnow.gallery, Berlin '24 for 24'
2010-2016 Art Kreuzberg, Offene Ateliers
2009 Werkstattgalerie Radenhausen
2005 Zehlendorfer Kunstmeile, Berlin
2002 Manzini Mitte, Berlin
2002 Touristikzentrum Land Fleesensee / Müritz
2001 Krankenhaus Neukölln
2000 Inselgalerie Berlin Mitte, Kunstmarkt
2000 Galerie Storkower Bogen, 'Begegnungen' Ausstellung koreanischer und deutscher Künstler -
1999 Kunstverleih -Galerie, Berlin Friedrichshain

Aufträge / Veröffentlichungen / öffentliche Sammlungen

2001 Veröffentlichung von vier Werken als Kunstdrucke durch Universal Prints,internationaler Kunstverlag -
2000 Veröffentlichung von Werken auf Buchumschlägen der sechseiligen Gesamtwerksausgabe des Autors Paul Bowles sowie anderer Buchtitel durch den Goldmann Verlag
2000 Ankauf von Arbeiten durch die Artothek in der Amerika – Gedenkbibliothek
1999 Wandgestaltung im Flur eines Miethauses in Berlin Kreuzberg
1998 Auftragsarbeit (Collage) für den Sender Freies Berlin







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