Possehl Prize for Lübeck Art 2018
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Janine Gerber
In May 2018 the jury members from internationally renowned art galleries and museums met to award the first Possehl Art Prizes. In a unanimous vote the jury decided to award the Possehl Prize for Lübeck Art to Janine Gerber (*1974). They acknowledged, “the rigour with which Janine Gerber examines the relationship between space and image, both in her work in paint and in her paper installations.” The artist investigates the transformative qualities of light and plays with them in her paintings and voluminous paper installations. Rips, lines, edges and borders are central elements of her work; she opens up surfaces, dissolves them and redefines them.
The prize gave the artist, who also studied under Katharina Grosse at the Weißensee School of Art in Berlin, the opportunity to realise a large installation piece made of paper and machine oil. She presented this and other works in 2019 in her exhibition WAS ICH SEHE BLICKT MICH AN in the Chain Store at Kulturwerft Gollan.
