On February 4, the first solo exhibition by Leipzig painter Kristina Schuldt opens at the Kunstsammlung. It shows the latest paintings and works on paper by the artist, who has developed an iconic, contemporary visual language of great intensity. The exhibition can be seen until May 3.
In Kristina Schuldt's intensely colorful paintings, art historical and literary references merge with political, feminist and personal themes to create enigmatic yet humorous compositions. Her pictures reflect the scattered attention of our highly networked present and convey the human being as a figure that simultaneously appears and disappears in the pictorial space.
With multi-perspective, fragmented forms and expressive color gradients, Schuldt draws on the pictorial designs of Cubism. Georges Braque, Tamara de Lempicka and Fernand Léger as well as the colorfulness of Sonia Delaunay seem to resonate in her compositions. These elements function as the vocabulary of a visual language with which Schuldt conveys disorder, chance, simultaneity and uncertainty - and thus captures an attitude to life of our time.
About the artist
Born in Moscow in 1982, Kristina Schuldt emigrated with her parents to Neubrandenburg in the mid-1980s, where she grew up and received her first artistic impulses. After studying at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, where she graduated as a master student of Neo Rauch in 2012, she developed an independent body of work with a focus on the human figure, in particular the female body. Today Schuldt lives and works in Leipzig. Her works have been shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions and are represented in institutional and private collections worldwide.
The exhibition is organized in cooperation with Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin.
