Artist Spotlight – CRAZY CANVAS Community
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Ilja Freer
The self-taught painter Ilja Freer processes many stages of his life in abstract acrylic paintings. He was born in Berlin in 1976 and has enjoyed painting and drawing since he was a young boy. In the 1990s, as a teenager, he experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall. Everywhere in the city, something new emerged almost overnight. He and his friends took care of the city's mostly gray facades and designed them as colorful works of art as graffiti artists. That was his contribution during this time to making the city more colorful and making it a place where everyone who wants to change something is welcome. Since 2019, he has swapped the spray cans for spatulas and brushes. In his artistic work, he experiments a lot with color and technique. He likes to play intuitively with the norm that deviates from reality.
Hülpman
HÜLPMAN (Felix Aaron Hülpüsch) is a Berlin based graphic designer, painter and illustrator. After his apprenticeship he studied Visual Communication in his hometown. He has worked for several agencies in Berlin and Hamburg, and has also lived in Auckland, New Zealand. The tools preferably used are markers, spray paint and acrylic paint on any surface. Over the last couple of years he has created murals, customized
textiles and much more at home and abroad. He has taken part in various solo and group exhibitions, as well as festivals and battles in Germany,Italy, Israel and New Zealand.
Fabián Stetie
Fabián Stetie was born in Buenos Aires in 1963, in permanent contact with painting since he was 16 years old. Self-taught in his beginnings to later formalize his studies passing through workshops at Estímulo de Bellas Artes with Alicia Besada, Amigos de Bellas Artes, Ernesto Pesce, Roberto Scafidi and Ariel Mlynarzewicz to date.
During the 90’s he showed his paintings at the Centro Cultural Recoleta on several occasions, to return to solo exhibitions during the year 2023.
"I look to merge stories, sensations of our lives, scenarios, works and rituals, seeking to exorcise sorrows and showing hope"
Jazz Mang
Jazz Mang knew in her early 20s that her path would be a creative one. While still putting together her portfolio for the University of Fine Arts in Dresden, she applied to the Mephisto School for Make-up Artists in Berlin. The acceptance came surprisingly fast and the Berliner made her way in the fashion world and across the red carpet as an internationally renowned make-up artist. In doing so, her thinking is highly conceptual; she works closely with art directors and creates complete looks from a single vision.
In all this time, painting never left her. Jazz continues her search for personal artistic expression; she experiments and finds it on the canvas. Here, she discovers her own visual language: eloquent and succinct, she combines almost randomly placed blots in harmoniously contrasting colors that become floral patterns, and also calligraphic elements with portraits of women who radiate feminine strength through their fragility.
Thomas Pöllmann
Thomas Pöllmann , born in 1969, grew up in the Hochsauerland region and moved to Berlin in 1995. From an early age he was interested in rooms and their furnishings. He always had the room as a whole in mind. In addition to colors and shapes, energies and their qualities play an important role. Following the motto, “designing a room well is actually quite simple, you just need some nice furniture and, above all, good art,” he advises customers and designs rooms at home and abroad.
He draws inspiration from his travels, among other places. In connection with the establishment of the German Foreign Office's diplomatic missions abroad, these took him to more than 30 countries on 6 continents.
In addition to drawing, he has devoted himself intensively to abstract painting for several years. In his studio in Berlin, he creates both small and large-format oil paintings on various surfaces. Intuition plays a central role in his work and chance plays a major role, and it is important to him that a picture emerges and is not intentional. Months can pass before a work is finished.
His paintings hang in apartments, offices and conference rooms, foyer areas and also in the Federal Chancellery in Berlin.
Ben Kamili
Ben Kamili is a true nature lover. The plein air painter, born in Macedonia in 1969, repeatedly embarks on artistic journeys to capture the concentrated beauty of the landscape. Whether in Germany, Italy or Macedonia, his drive is the constant search for touching motifs that – from flowering meadows and fields, to cloud formations and bodies of water, to architecture in the landscape.
Kamili's paintings are particularly impressive due to their opulent application of paint. The canvases shed their two-dimensionality in relief, and the thick layers of paint almost seem to have a life of their own. The decision for a motif is always accompanied by a strategic work process: transporting countless paint canisters and positioning the easel are part of painting outdoors. This is just one of the many criteria that distinguish Kamili as an artist and make his work special. But it is particularly thanks to his keen sense of color and his trained painter's eye that he succeeds in creating lively depictions of different landscape scenes and capturing the overwhelming elegance of nature on canvas.
Jinran Kim
Jinran Kim, who grew up in Seoul, lives and works in both Berlin and Seoul. She studied sculpture at Seoul National University and the University of the Arts in Berlin. Her works are included in various renowned collections, such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea and the MMK Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main. In Berlin, her works have been exhibited several times in solo exhibitions.
Her most recent series of works presents different views of a mystical, desolate winter landscape, crafted from gauze and ash. The black-and-white landscapes appear very tangible due to the plastic modeling with gauze and invite viewers to immerse themselves in this icy, wintery world. Upon closer inspection, it becomes apparent that the motifs are composed of individual threads of gauze—a delicate and fine material typically used for wound healing. Here, the artist employs it to create new, captivating worlds.
Ivan Gette
Ivan Gette is a Berlin based abstract painter and gallery owner. He uses art and color to mirror the modern media – time with the experiences, meaningful people, connections and the mediation of emotions. Lending from his personal history and identity, his boldly interpretative, color-coded work represents how society interacts, encounters and expresses moments and stories. He describes his style as “abstract nihilism”, which explains his impulsive way of creating art in total freedom, not being guided by rules and restrictions. His abstract works invite the viewer to have a dialogue and confrontation with their belief systems.
“Art is only as good as the feelings it creates in you.”
Ivan is also the founder of NOTAGALLERY Berlin .
Franziska Katharina Röhrs
Franziska Katharina Röhrs is an abstract painter born in Hamburg and living in Berlin. The imaginative artist rarely uses a classic brush; instead, she uses everyday objects and, above all, her own body to spread the paint on the canvas during a yoga flow.
When a brush is used, it is often hanging upside down in an aerial yoga swing. Calligraphic elements and symbols are recurring stylistic devices in addition to her energetic painting technique using the whole body.
The artist finds inspiration for her art primarily in everyday life, the people she meets, her personal experiences and the energies she senses and feels. She transforms these experiences and energies into form and color on the canvas, often working in series.
Olivier Kéros
Olivier Kéros is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Berlin. He is creating worlds full of joy and adventures in his paintings. He grew up in poverty and painting was the best way to make his visions clear while building up a new future through it. His style is very unique in the way he combines abstraction and neo-expressionism with clear forms and figures but also the way he uses colors.
Nele Sadlo
Nele Sadlo studied fine arts with a focus on painting in Essen and Madrid. In her large-format, figurative oil paintings, bodies meet each other, spanning the field of tension between the inner perceived reality and the external visible reality. Her painting helps her to negotiate and better understand the relationship between the constantly changing self and the world. In addition to her work as an artist, Nele is currently studying art history and philosophy in Berlin in order to devote herself more to the theoretical discussion of art.
Anne Bengard
Anne was born in Leipzig, Germany and now lives and works in Berlin. Her artistic process is characterized by a slow and meticulous approach to painting, allowing her to thoroughly explore and express complex themes. Anne's work plays simultaneously with beauty and discomfort, inviting viewers to confront and reflect on their own emotions and perceptions.
A pivotal influence on Anne's artistry comes from her experiences in nightclubs and at events. These environments have infused her artwork with themes of fetishism. She questions devotion, obsession, and the nuances of worship. This influence is evident in her pieces, showing a profound exploration of passion and the human inclination towards obsessive behaviors.