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Constanze Claudia Lorenz
1996 first artistic works
1996 Assistant to John Wareburton, Professor of photography, Manchester
2005 - 2007 studied photography with Professor Sibylle Bergemann, Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin
2009 workshop with Annie Leibovitz, Berlin
seit 2001 freelance photographer and painter
Solo and Groupexhibitions (selection):
2020 WIR ERDEN EINS, Kulturkirche Nicodemus, Berlin, EA
2018 - 2019 Kunst & Kulinaria Schloss Kartzow, Potsdam EA
2016 – 2017 3. Bestandsaufnahme Werder, Galerie Kunstgeschoss, Werder
2016 La Pasión del Color, Sala de Exposicón Can Curt, Ibiza, EA
2016 Cada día mujer, Sala d exposiciones Can Jeroni, Ibiza
2015 The Travel, Los Dos Fine Art Gallery, Ibiza, EA
2014 Andere und Selbst, Cornelsen Verlagshaus, Berlin, EA
2013 MALEREI UND PHOTOGRAPHIE IM DIALOG, Galerie Achtzig, Berlin
2013 NATURlich FotoGrafie, Galerie Kunst-Kontor, Potsdam
2013 BERLINER LISTE 2013, Künstlerpräsentation
2012 FAMILIEMENSCH 2012, Kunsthalle Köln
2011 „Geteilte Heimat“, Kölner Rathaus, Landtag Düsseldorf, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
2009 - 2010 Storys, Galerie CCLO, Strausberg
2006 La Collection Prix 2006, QUF, Paris
2005 Expression by young photographers, Konica Minolta Plaza, Tokio
2004 von mir aus - Positionen zur Stadt, Projektraum Alte Feuerwache, Berlin
2003 Nice to see you, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin
2002 Intimate Dialog II, Nové sdruzení prazských umělců, Prag
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"Color is like music that touches directly your soul."
Since my youth I have been in circles of artists and surrounded by photographers, sculptors and painters. That inspired me to see life with different eyes. From the beginning, art has guided me through the time and the world.
My first medium was photography as tangible proof of the beauty and the experience. At some point that was no longer enough for me. I wanted to show more, including what I saw and felt behind the facades. That was best shared in painting. I started painting in 2001.
Where photography creates moment, I extract through my painting, impressions of time and reality, the splendor of places in their subtle changeability.
For me, abstract painting is communication on another level, another dimension, where is color like music that touches directly your soul.
All that is is energy. I can transform the various forms that appear in reality into something special in my work.
Strong colors and moving elements invite you to dream and discover things that lie beyond rigid constructs.
With hands and brushes on the floor, I work the color onto the canvas. I pick up structures and coat them with color to create access to the own inner world.
Long in advance I have the picture in my head and during the painting process I harmonize and dynamize it.
I don't follow a strategy, I follow my intuition.
In my art I take the same freedom as nature, which allows something to grow and develop.
At the moment of tension and relaxation, when paint flows on canvas and something completely new is created, I feel abstract art like a cosmic orgasm.
With my pictures I create a bridge from the outside to the inside, which wants to bring the viewer into contact with himself, his courage and his joy.