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About Andrea Damp

Painting a Story of Light and Color The subjects of Andrea Damp's paintings are often light-footed, springy, dreamy, playful children, excitedly frolicking in summer adventure. Fascinated by their sometimes tropical-seeming… Read more

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Painting a Story of Light and Color

The subjects of Andrea Damp's paintings are often light-footed, springy, dreamy, playful children, excitedly frolicking in summer adventure. Fascinated by their sometimes tropical-seeming surroundings, they seek to discover new plants and courageously pioneer a trail through the lush, enthralling vegetation.

Her paintings capture the wonderful adventure of nature through a light-drenched atmosphere curiously immersed with paradisiacal shapes and colors. The colors drip from the canvas in warm sunlight as if after a quick, refreshing rainstorm. Situations are created where dreams can become reality: Flying swings are left in a woodsy glade, inviting the viewer to climb aboard.

With a wonderful lightness, Andrea Damp expands on the imagery that reminds us of memories of our ideal childhood paradise, awakening a longing for happiness, carefree joy, and an anticipated moment of surprise.

She spent her own childhood in a small fishing village on the Baltic See island of Rügen, which she remembers as carefree and connected to nature. This may be why she succeeds in creating an atmosphere of images shimmering in memory, immediately enchanting the viewer.

The student of the master Hans-Jürgen Diehl in Berlin has received many fellowships and been exhibited in multiple international galleries, astonishing viewers with colorful paintings in both small and large formats. One of her works is included in the collection of Sidney Picasso in Paris.

Christina Wendenburg

VITA

1977	Born in Bergen auf Rügen
1998 - 2004	Studied Painting, UDK, Berlin, Prof. Hans-Jürgen Diehl
2004	Glasgow School of Art
2008 - 2010	Karl-Hofer-Stipendium
	Lives and works in Berlin

Exhibitions

	Single Exhibitions (Selection)
2011	Andrea Damp – Malerei, Vattenfall, Berlin, Germany
	New Talents, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
	Galleri Thomassen Göteborg, Sweden
2010	Vertigo, Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany
	Farbe im Quadrat, Galerie Mathias Kampl, Munich, Germany
2009	Karussell Karmesin, Galerie CP, Wiesbaden, Germany
	Galerie Mathias Kampl, Munich, Germany
	Pulsschlag der Farbe, Richard-Haizmann-Museum / Kunstverein Niebüll, Germany
2008	Twinklies, Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany
	Behind the Curtain, Galerie CP, Wiesbaden, Germany
2007	Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Kunstverein Rügen, Putbus, Germany
	Just Beautiful, Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany
2006	Nea, Galerie Brennecke, Berlin,Germany
2005	CNC, Berlin Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany
	Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2011	Galerie Brennecke, Berlin & Düsseldorf, Germany
	New Talents, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
2009	Fragment, Kunstverein Eisenturm, Mainz, Germany
	Form versus Inhalt, Stipendiaten der Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, Germany
	Art Karlsruhe, mit Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany
	Identitäten, Galerie und Künstlerhaus Spiekeroog, Germany
2008	Wasser, MK 21 Galerie im Künstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf, Germany
	ART FAIR 21 Köln, mit Galerie CP, Wiesbaden, Germany
	Mensch-Natur-Raum, Sammlung im Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany
	Karl-Hofer-Stipendiaten, Atelieretage Oberschöneweide, Berlin, Germany
	Art Karlsruhe, mit Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Deutschland
	Eb-Dietzsch-Kunstpreis, Gera, Germany
2007	Liste Köln, mit Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany
	Art Karlsruhe, one-artist-show, mit Galerie Brennecke, Berlin, Germany
	Idyll, Kunstverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden, Germany
2006	Galerie 14, Paris, France
	Galerie CP, Wiesbaden, Germany