Annette Girke - Textile dialogues
06.10.2023 - 30.11.2023 ,
Museum Starnberger See (Museum Lake Starnberg)
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Annette Girke was born in Bamberg in 1965 and lives in Starnberg. In 2019, the painter and sculptor was honoured with the Art Prize of the City of Starnberg. As a prizewinner, she worked in the city's own studio in the former villa of the artist Paul Thiem in Starnberg from 2020 to 2023. Most of the works in the exhibition were created during this time.
Textiles, fabrics, fibres and weaves are recurring materials in the artist's works. Girke dedicates a series of paintings to the structure of patchwork carpets. Made from used clothing and scraps of fabric, these carpets have been known from various cultures for centuries. Translated into painting, they result in abstract compositions reminiscent of classical modernism. In another series of works, Girke uses soft fleece as a painting surface. The result is paintings that seem to sink into the deep three-dimensional fabric or grow out of it.
Girke's time as an art prize winner was accompanied by the COVID-19 pandemic and its restrictions. Paintings of places of longing, painted escapes into the distance, provide a reminder of this.
Last edited on 18.03.2025
