Sibylle Springer. Ferne Spiegel
In the organizer's words:
The paintings of Sibylle Springer (*1975) invite us to look closely. It arouses curiosity and unsettles at the same time. Springer often works with quotations from Western art history, which she places in new contexts in her pictures that oscillate between abstraction and representational depiction. A central theme of her art is the role of women and their perception in our society.
Springer's current works revolve around forgotten female artists, such as the painters Barbara and Margaretha Dietzsch, who are largely unknown today. The sisters lived in Nuremberg in the 18th century and created detailed plant still lifes. Sibylle Springer picks out their depictions of thistles, which she transfers and reinterprets in her painting in a highly aesthetic and at the same time alienated form. Her pictures tempt us to transfer the appearance of the prickly thistles to the image of the woman, to whom both beautiful and defensive qualities are generally attributed. In the exhibition, Springer's thistle paintings are presented for the first time in direct dialog with works by Barbara Dietzsch from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen.
Springer's art is also influenced by contemporary female artists: in the series Feed and Icons of Pop, for example, she deals with self-presentation, identity and social role attributions. She finds her inspiration primarily in the inexhaustible cosmos of social media.
A new aspect of her work can be seen in her textile works, with which Springer transfers her themes into an everyday context.
An exhibition of the Förderkreis für Gegenwartskunst at the Kunstverein Bremen
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