Karin Kneffel
Karin Kneffel (*1957, Marl, Germany) is one of the leading contemporary German painters worldwide. Born in the western region of Germany, known as the Ruhr area, Karin Kneffel began her artistic career focusing on the post-war architecture of her homeland. Her master studies with Gerhard Richter led her to embrace new techniques and innovative subjects at the time, highlighting her small-scale animal portraits and monumental fruit paintings. Karin Kneffel’s works are characterized by her photorealistic technique and her use of intense, bright colors. In her paintings, Kneffel achieves a visual balance between proximity and distance. By using photorealistic painting techniques detached from their traditional contexts, Kneffel creates perfectly constructed impossible scenarios. By superimposing and recombining events, places and objects, she creates multidimensional realities that challenge the complex relationships between image, space and time.
The works by Karin Kneffel are part of numerous international collections such as FRAC Normandie, Rouen; Kunsthalle Bremerhaven; Museu Berardo, Lisbon; Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden; Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Stuttgart; Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt; Miettinen Sammlung, Berlin; Sinclair House, Bad Homburg.
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Stillleben
30 November 2018 - 2 February 2019The final exhibition in the gallery’s fiftieth-anniversary year, bringing together various works of artists it represents, is dedicated to the still life. Unmoving or inanimate objects have been the subject...Read more -
Karin Kneffel
24 November 2016 - 28 January 2017Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle presents the artist Karin Kneffel’s most recent work cycle in a comprehensive solo exhibition, showing small- and medium-format oil paintings. The thematic focus is on the reinterpretation...Read more
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Art Cologne 2024
7 - 10 November 2024Description Additional FieldRead more -
Art Basel 2024
13 - 16 June 2024Helene Appel, Stephan Balkenhol, David Claerbout, Martin Creed, Elger Esser, Candida Höfer, Leiko Ikemura, Karin Kneffel, Daniel Knorr, Goshka Macuga, Maximilian Rödel, Anri Sala, Elif...Read more -
Art Basel 2023
14 - 18 June 2023Art Basel 2023 Kunstmarkt Kunstmesse Art Fair Art Market Helene Appel, Elger Esser, Annabell Häfner, Leiko Ikemura, Daniel Knorr, Thomas Ruff, Maximilian Rödel, Elif Saydam,...Read more -
Art Basel 2021
22 - 26 September 2021Art Basel 2021 Kunstmarkt Kunstmesse Art Fair Art Market Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, Thu Van Tran, Helene Appel, Janis Avotins, Stephan Balkenhol, Slawomir...Read more -
Art Basel 2020
17 - 26 June 2020Art Basel 2020 Kunstmarkt Kunstmesse Art Fair Art Market Stephan Balkenhol, Dan Graham, Ma Ke, Karin Kneffel, Candida Höfer, Goshka Macuga, Jan Merta, Thomas Ruff,...Read more -
Art Basel 2019
13 - 16 June 2019Art Basel 2019 Kunstmarkt Kunstmesse Art Fair Art Market Helene Appel, Janis Avotins, Stephan Balkenhol, David Claerbout, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Toulu Hassani, Lorena Herrera...Read more -
Art Cologne 2019
11 - 14 April 2019Description Additional FieldRead more