Artist-in-Residence
Sati Zech
IN STUDIO
Saturday, June 5, 2010 through
Saturday, June 26, 2010
ON EXHIBIT
Saturday, June 5, 2010 through
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Artist-in-Residence
Sati Zech
Born in 1958 in Southern Germany, Berlin-based painter Sati Zech attended the Berlin University of Fine Arts from 1982-1987, studying sculpture and drawing under Lothar Fischer. For nearly a decade, Zech lectured at the Academy for Fine Arts in Marrakesh and also taught at the Weissensee School of Fine Arts in Berlin.
Although technically referred to as paintings, the works in her vibrant series titled Bollenarbeit—a reference to the vineyard-covered hills and low mountains found in the region where Zech was born—float between paintings, drawings, and sculptures. While the sumptuous displays of thick, bright red mounds of paint applied on naked strips of linen are visually arresting, it is the process Zech employs to create these cloth fields of intense color concentration that is most remarkable.
After tearing apart sheets of canvas, Zech assembles the strips—unraveled edges and all—in horizontal and vertical rows. Sometimes overlapping them, she joins the rows with white archival glue, bits of puttylike plaster and thread before or after applying viscous domes and dots of red paint across the cloth’s surface. The result evokes a pleasantly tattered collage, its crimson fingerprint-like shapes spreading like landscape across the sheet’s ragged lines and seams.
While the acts of layering, tearing, gluing and sewing produce works that are reminiscent of domestic handicraft, and the scarlet mounds of paint hint at historically ritualistic mark-making, Zech’s dynamic creations defy category. They inhabit a world of their own.
Zech has won various scholarships and awards, the most recent being the Franz Joseph Speigler Prize in 2009. She also participated in a Yaddo Residency in April 2009. Zech made her stateside debut in 2008 at Howard Scott Gallery in New York City but has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, as well as art fairs, in cities such as Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Zurich and Bilbao since 1985.
Solo Exhibitions
2009
art Karlsruhe, Germany
Gallery Ohse, Bremen, Germany
Gallery Wohlhueter, Leibertingen, Germany
Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY
Kallmann Museum, Munich, Germany
art Karlsruhe, Germany
Art Association Marburg, Germany
Art Association Würzburg, Germany
Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL
2007
Hall of Art, Wil, Switzerland
art Karlsruhe, Germany
art Seoul, Korea
Art Association Tuttlingen, Germany
Art Association Eislingen, Germany
Municipal Gallery Donzdorf, Germany
Gallery art Felchlin, Schwyz and Zürich, Switzerland
art Zürich, Gallery ArtFelchlin, Switzerland
Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL
Gallery Berlin, Germany
Gallery Tobias Schrade, Ulm, Germany
2006
Museum of Contemporary Art, Heidelberg, Germany
Gallery in the Tower, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Tobias Schrade, Ulm, Germany
Gallery Berlin, Berlin, Germany
art Karlsruhe, Gallery Berlin, Germany
Gallery Wohlhueter, Leibertingen, Germany
2005
Lothar Fischer Museum, Neumarkt, Germany
art Karlsruhe, Otto Gallery, Munich, Germany
Gallery Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Tobias Schrade, Ulm, Germany
2004
Gallery Josephski-Neukum, Issing, Germany
2003
Gallery Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Michael Schlieper, Hagen, Germany
Otto Gallery, Munich, Germany
art Frankfurt, Gallery Berlin, Germany
2002
Center of Contemporary Arts, Offenburg, Germany
Gallery Hartmann und Noe, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Ana Uriarte, Bilbao, Spain
art Cologne, Hartmann und Noe, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Arco, Madrid, Spain
2001
Gallery in the Tulla, Mannheim, Germany
2000
Gallery Otto, Munich, Germany
1999
Künstlerhaus e.V., Göppingen, Germany
Gallery Busse, Worpswede, Germany
Roselius Museum, Worpswede, Germany
1998
Gallery Jesse, Bielefeld, Germany
Gallery parterre, Kunstamt Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Rosi Jäger, Hochheim/Main, Germany
Gallery Hensel, Karlsruhe, Germany
1997
art Cologne, Germany
art Frankfurt, Germany
Gallery Tammen und Busch, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Otto, Munich, Germany
Gallery Busse, Worpswede, Germany
Gallery Tammen & Busch, Berlin, Germany
1996
Gallery Gildewarth, Osnabrück, Germany
Roselius Museum, Worpswede, Germany
Gallery Himmelreich, Magdeburg, Germany
1995
Gallery Gutsch, Berlin, Germany
ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
1994
Gallery Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany
Goethe-Institute Casablanca, Morocco, Africa
Gallery Hofmeister, Massing, Germany
art Cologne, Gallery Gutsch, Berlin, Germany
1993
Gallery Jeroch, Hannover, Germany
Gallery Otto, Munich, Germany
1992
Cordonhaus, Cham, Germany
1991
Gallery Otto, Munich, Germany
Gallery M, Lindau, Germany
Gallery Academia, Salzburg, Austria
