Amazing insights: Christiane Schauder celebrates 70th birthday with a big exhibition!

Amazing insights: Christiane Schauder celebrates 70th birthday with a big exhibition!

The new exhibition "Christiane Schauder / Review forward" will be shown in the Kunstverein Eisenturm in Mainz from January 10, 2025. The reason for the exhibition is the artist's 70th birthday, which was born in Hunsrück on January 11, 1955. The exhibition runs until February 2 and shows work from the past around three decades and the latest works by Schauder.

The vernissage takes place on January 10th at 7 p.m., at the Gisela Ruth, the artistic advisory board of the Eisenturm Mainz art association (KEM), will take over. The Cultural Director of the City of Mainz, Marianne Grosse, will speak a greeting, followed by a conversation with the artist, which is moderated by Friederike Gemünden, literary scholar and cultural journalist. The event is musically framed by the duo Marol, the Balkan jazz.

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Christiane Schauder has studied in Mainz since 1975 and has gained international experiences through scholarships, including the Morgner scholarship in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as stays in France and Azerbaijan. She also lived in New York for several months and had teaching positions and exhibitions in China between 2000 and 2008. For 14 years she has been working in her studio at Schießgartenstraße 10 a, which is equipped with a wing and a small stage where she regularly organizes public concerts and readings.

Your painting style is characterized by large-format gestural pictures and an contemplative painting style, which consists of flat-monochrome compositions. These images are made of 20 or more layers of paint and are about 80 % of acrylic, while wax, printed paper and book pages form the remaining materials. Christiane Schauder is also involved in cultural and social initiatives. She is a co -founder of the municipal cinema cinémayence and a long -time member of Upart e. V. (Acute Festival), Soroptimist International (SI Star) and the Tanzmainz Association. Since 1997 she and her husband Minas have been organizing the artbiennale "... 3x bells!" In the Mainz Neustadt.

For her artistic work, she received the Medal of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in 2014 and was awarded the Gutenberg badge of the state capital Mainz in 2018 for special services to culture and art, as sensor-magazin.de reported.

Further information on the exhibition and the works shown can be viewed on the website of the art association Eisenturm, where the details of the opening times from Saturday and Sunday, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. href = "https://www.kunstverein-eisenturm-mainz.de/ausstellen/christiane-schauder-rueckblick-nach-vorn"> Kunstverein-eisenturm-Mainz.de explained.