"In this way, Kerstin Jeckel’s instinctive feeling for new shades, fines nuances and harmonies of colours that were hardly thought possible creates a wealth of colourful euphony."
Katinka Fischer (Freelance cultural journalist)
Kerstin Jeckel (* 1960) lives and works in Wiesbaden.
From 1983-1989 she studied art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Jeckel's paintings - whether in a
large, space-saving format, in their mosaic-like series or in their miniatures on paper - are tenderness
between colours.... Minimalist in the formal language, the artist
always tries to create a harmony of tones and values. She succeeds. Based on a fundamental interest in
the aesthetic effectiveness of the colours, especially in their points of contact and interfaces, as well
as their expansive, physical relief, her paintings move from abstraction to symbolic representations.
Symbolic ornamentation and above all the forms of nature with flowers, leaves, tendrils and roots inspire
Jeckel's work. Jeckel offers the viewer wonderfully powerful, heartwarming art.
Vita
- 1960
born in Wiesbaden. The artist lives and works in Wiesbaden, Germany. - 1976 - 1979
Apprenticeship as a publisher / book maker, since then also working in typography, layout and book design. - 1983 - 1989
HfBK State School in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, free painting + art theory with Thomas Bayrle, Johannes Schreiter and Raimer Jochims - since 1984
Studio / Workshop together with Karl-Martin Hartmann, studio exhibitions / workshop exhibits, Open Studio Days with Karl-Martin Hartmann. - 1987-2017
Conception and advice to companies and organizations for the implementation of artistic projects, exhibitions, collections. - since 1994
Network Steles of Tolerance e.V. with Karl-Martin Hartmann, www.netzwerk-toleranz.de - 1996 - 2000
Supervision of the estate of the painter Albrecht Graupner (1930-1996), with Inge Naumann, Karl-Martin Hartmann, Heiner Zwilling-Martino, Wiesbaden, Georgenborn, Oberursel. - 2007 - 2010
Tolerance before eyes, THE WINDOW - installation and lecture series Werner-Kapelle, Bacharach, Germany, with Karl-Martin Hartmann. - since 2013
PICTURE REVIEWS in the Workshop with Nikolas Werner Jacobs, art historian, Wiesbaden. - 2017/2018
Academy project of the IGS Jawlensky, Wiesbaden with Elena Hartmann and 11 students - 2020
Working grant from the Hessian Cultural Foundation
Solo Exhibitions
- 2019
7 VALUE PICTURES, Godot, The Cultural Workshop, Wiesbaden - 2017
VOYAGE OUT - TO SEE THE MATTERS, Art Gallery - Wiesbaden, catalog (double show with Karl-Martin Hartmann) NATIVE PLACES, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz - 2016
NATIVE PLACES SCENERY, Art-Practice-Dialogue, Frankfurt am Main - 2014
NOTHING BUT THE SMELL, Thalhaus Wiesbaden - 2011
FLOWER-POWER, Heiligkreuztal Monastery - 2010
FLOWER MEADOW, installation IHK Wiesbaden GRASSLANDS, museum in Wehen Castle - 2009
BOARD PICTURES, Kornelia Jahn Gallery, Bad Wildungen 25 years of Workshop Exhibition with Karl-Martin Hartmann - 2006
SPRING RUSH, Kornelia Jahn Gallery, Bad Wildungen - 2005
MORNING-STROLL, Farbwechsel Nr. 13, DKD, Wiesbaden - 2004
OUT.LOOK, Museum in Wehen Castle CUSTOMIZED, Art in the Monastery, Koblenz - 2003
WIESBADEN GOES BERLIN, Hessian State Representation Berlin - 2002
BATH IN THE MEADOWS, Eckelmann AG, Wiesbaden BIG IN JAPAN, Pictures + Dresses, Wiesbaden - 2001
PAPERDOLLS, Art-Practice-Dialogue, Frankfurt/M - 2000
SHINY PATTERNS, Farbwechsel Nr. 3, DKD, Wiesbaden - 1997
STREIFLAND, Art in the Naspa, Wiesbaden - 1995
PACE-MAKER, The Nassau Art Association NKV, Wiesbaden, Catalog - Regular presentations in the studio. / Regular presentations in the Workshop.