Brigitte Kühlewind Brennenstuhl
BRIGITTE KÜHLEWIND BRENNENSTUHL [BKB]
Born in Veckenstedt (former East Germany) in 1949.
She lives and works in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
Biography
She was trained in East Germany during the period of legitimisation of a “socialist nation” in a “socialist state”. In 1968 she first completed her training as a draughtswoman in mechanical engineering. In 1971 she graduated as a designer from the Professional School for Advertising and Modeling in Berlin-Schöneweide. From 1973 to 1975, she studied Art at the Institute of Fine Arts in Berlin-Weissensee, with a major in graphic design. From 1976 she worked as a freelance graphic designer.
In parallel to her work as a graphic designer, she developed her own artistic research and began to exhibit her work in 1980.
She left East Germany in 1986 after spending a year in the Hoheneck women’s prison, where she was imprisoned for attempting to escape to the West.
From 1987 she exhibits in Italy and Switzerland where she taught painting between 1989 and 1991 in Zürich . Then moves to France where she shows her work from 1992 and taught painting in different places.
“My work is always very personal.”
“I want to expose my past, nothing extraordinary though, we were rubes, normal people with everyone’s problems, what interests me are the relationships in the family, the things in life, the fears.”
“Searching for who I am has become my life.”
Solo Exhibitions
2020
“Quand Freud voit la mer”, Galerie Odile Oms, Céret, France
2017
Galerie Odile Oms, Céret, France
2014
Cloister of Ilsenburg, Harz-Germany
Galerie MLS Bordeaux, France
2013
Cloister of Saint-Genis-des Fontaines, France
2012
Maison du Chevalier, Carcassonne, France
Casa Carrère, Bages, France
2009
Le Fort de Bellegarde, Le Perthus, France
Galerie Tenyidor, Collioure, France
2007
Galerie Therese Roussel, Perpignan, France
2006
Maison des Arts Bages-Aude, France
2004
“Alte Bischofsburg” Museum, Wittstock, Germany
2002
“Altes Pfarrhaus”, Buchs, Switzerland
2001
Contemporary Art Center, St.Cyprien, France
1999
“L’art en stalles”, Pouzac Bagneres-de-Bigorre, France
Perigord Museum, Perigueux, France
Galerie du Pillier Rouge, Le Mans, France
Le Méliès Cinema, Pau, France
1998
“Voutes Poyennes”, Bordeaux, France
1997
Galerie La Passerelle, Tours, France
“Chapel of the Carmel”, Tarbes, France
1996
“Temple du Goût”, Nantes, France
1995
Pavillon du Verdurier, Limoges, France
1992
Galerie Coppola, Perigueux, France
1991
Art Gallery A. Imhof, Wädenswil, Switzerland
1987
Circolo Galluppi, Tropea, Italy
1985
Hohenzieritz Castle, former East Germany
1982
“Kleine Galerie”, Zossen, former East Germany
1980
Pritzwalk Museum, former East Germany
Group Exhibitions [selection]
2021
“Seitenblick #1”, Galerie Lligat, Perpignan, France
2020
“L’esprit du lieu, 20 artistes pour 2020”, Musée Rigaud, Perpignan, France
2015
“Narcisse, le pouvoir de l’autoportrait”, Walter Benjamin Contemporary Art Center, Perpignan, France
2013
ArtZ D’EUS, France
2008
“El centre del Món”, Contemporary Art Center “A cent mètres du monde”, Perpignan, France
2004
Art-Café Verteillac with Rosy Leventon, France
Pujols Castle on Dordogne, France
“Artothèque Conseil Général de la Gironde”, France
2001
“Salon Réalitées nouvelles”, Paris, France
1998
Embassy of Switzerland, Paris, France
Kandler Gallery, International Contemporary Art Fair, Francfort/Main, Germany
1997
Franco-Swiss exhibition, Bordeaux, France
Kandler Gallery, Toulouse, France
1995
“Salon Grands et jeunes d’aujourd’hui”, Paris, France
1994
Kulturarche Gallery, Prenzlau, Germany
1987
“Art of today”, Budapest, Hungary
1986
“Arts of the Eastern Bloc Countries”, Stuttgart, former Federal Republic of Germany
1985
East German Cultural Centre Pedrosovodsk, USSR
Neubrandenburg District Exhibition, former East Germany
1984
Cultural Centre of the GDR, Prague, Czechoslovakia
1983
Museum Schwerin, former East Germany
Gallery Pferdemarkt, Neubrandenburg, former East Germany
Edition
Brigitte Kühlewind Brennenstuhl, « Entends-tu ? », Refuge des Cortalets, Edition Voix Editions, 2017
Mountain Drawing Encounters 2017
Each year, “Les Rencontres du dessin de montagne” invite four artists to spend three days in a refuge to draw. The results of this work are collected in the form of drawing books. Over time, they constitute a collection that highlights drawing, artists and the landscapes of the Catalan mountains. The refuges are located in the territory of the Natural Park of the Catalan Pyrenees and Canigó Grand Site de France. — Voix Editions
Public Collections
Schwerin Museum, Germany
“Zentrum Bildende Kunst Neubrandenburg”, Germany
Land Bade-Würtenberg, Germany
“Conseil Géneral de la Gironde”, France
“Collection St.Cyprien”, Pyrenées Orientales, France
“Conseil Général de la Dordogne”, France
“Conseil Général des Pyrenées Orientales”, France
City of Le Perthus, France
City of Collioure, France
Private Collections
Australia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, U.S.A.
