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until 09.04. | #3333ARTatBerlin | RASCHE RIPKEN shows from 18. Februar 2022 the solo exhibition RAUHFASERDACKEL with new works by the artist Eilike Schlenkhoff. It is the second solo exhibition of the artist in the gallery.
Eilike Schlenkhoff deals with pictorial elements of abstract painting such as a brushstroke, a spot of colour or a graphic gesture. In recent years, this has developed into a complex painterly cosmos that continually produces new pictorial sensations – and in dealing with the inherently abstract colour figures, reveals very different ways of playing.
Eilike Schlenkhoff, Rubi, 2022, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm
There are, for example, singular brushstrokes that cast a shadow on the picture ground like ominous flying objects. Then again it is a flash of lightning, a thread, a sublime crease that the painter traces in a pointed way. Or whole bundles of brushstrokes emerge, resembling a fountain, an ambiguous organism.
Eilike Schlenkhoff, Faden (String), 2022, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm
The basis of her pictorial inventions is almost always a monochrome surface, which becomes the sounding board of such colour and form phenomena. Recently, however, there are also wide, cloudy sky spaces to be discovered in her painting. In these, again, sculptural formations appear, a flower perhaps, a thicket or a bird, which emerge solely from the modulation and movement of the colour.
Eilike Schlenkhoff, Gestrüpp (undergrowth), 2022, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Eilike Schlenkhoff, born 1984 in Herne, lives and works in Wuppertal.
2005-13 Studied at the Kunstakademie Münster, master student of Prof. Cornelius Völker.
2015 Studio scholarship Die Werkstatt, Altena
2016 ff. Support programme for visual arts of the Volksbank Münster
2017 Scholarship of the cultural foundation Sparkasse Unna
2018/19 Ramboux Prize of the City of Trier
Eilike Schlenkhoff, Superman, 2022, oil on canvas, 115 x 100 cm
After a first solo exhibition at the beginning of 2021, Galerie RASCHE RIPKEN will show new works by Eilike Schlenkhoff under the title “Rauhfaserdackel” from 18 February to 9 April 2022. A PDF catalogue is available for the exhibition.
Vernissage (Soft Opening): Friday, 18 February 2022, 4:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibition dates: Friday, 18 February to Saturday, 9 April 2022
To the Gallery
Title image: Eilike Schlenkhoff, Bonbon, 2021, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
Exhibition Eilike Schlenkhoff – RASCHE RIPKEN | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
