ARTISTS / Contemporary art
Edda Jachens

Photo: Anne Schubert

1960	Born in Bremen
1980/81	studies of medicine, University of Hamburg
1982-87	Studies of free art, Muthesius University Kiel; photorealistic drawing, portrait and figure
1988/89	Studies at the Central School of Art and Design in London; development of a geometric formal language
	DAAD scholarship for London
1990-96	lives and works in Bremen
1991-97	group of works with graphite, pictorial bodies and sculptures
1996-2004	lives and works in Leipzig
1998	first works with kerosene
1999	printmaking symposium Hohenossig, Saxony
2002	Otto-Flath scholarship, Bad Segeberg, Germany
2003	Scholarship of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
2005	Scholarship of the city of Bremerhaven, stay at the Paul Ernst Wilke studio
2007	Scholarship of the Foundation Rhineland-Palatinate for Culture, Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
2017	Painting Symposium, Mark Rothko Art Center Daugavpils, Latvia
	lives and works in Stuttgart
	Solo exhibitions (selection)
2019	Kunstverein Radolfzell
2018	Art Museum Gelsenkirchen
2016	Art Foyer of the SV SparkassenVersicherung, Stuttgart
2014	Exhibition hall Johannes Geccelli, Jühnsdorf
	Kultur&Kunstverein Adelberg
2013	Speyer Art Association
2010	Society for Art and Design, Bonn
2009	Kunstraum Westend, Frankfurt/Main
2007	Miller Block Gallery, Boston, USA
2006	Ahlen Art Museum, Ahlen, Germany
	Icon Museum, Recklinghausen
2005	Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Dusseldorf
2004	Forum Concrete Art Erfurt, Erfurt
	Moritzburg Foundation, Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)
	Mies van der Rohe House, Berlin
2003	Otto-Flath Art Hall, Bad Segeberg
	Kunstverein New Chemnitz Art Gallery, Chemnitz
	Kunstverein Das Damianstor Bruchsal, Bruchsal
	Feininger House, Anhalt Art Association Dessau
1999	Gallery Beck & Eggeling, Leipzig
1996	Museum Schönebeck Castle, Bremen
1995	Kunstverein Friedberg, Friedberg (Hesse)
	Group exhibitions (selection)
2020	Lust for color, Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart
	2-gather, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Germany
2019	Annual gifts 2019, release und Kunst, Stuttgart
	What's up?!, Schlichtenmaier Gallery, Grafenau, Germany
2018	40th anniversary of Galerie in Schloss Dätzingen, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau
	45 years of galleries in Meerane + 25 years of Meeraner Kunstverein, Kunstverein Meerane
2017	INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM MARK ROTHKO 2017, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre (LV)
	Homage to Modern Art, Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau
	RED COMES BEFORE RED, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
2016	Color Spaces - Light Spaces, Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart
2015	Lecturers of the Academy of Painting Berlin exhibit, Gallery ROOT, Berlin
2012	30 × 30 / small but art, New Worpswede Art Association, Worpswede
	30 years gkg, Society for Art and Design, Bonn
2011	Homage to a founding generation, Institute for New Technical Form, Darmstadt
2010	2nd International André Evard Prize, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel
	the things of life, objects in leipzig art, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig
	Stuttgarter Ansichten, House of the Catholic Church, Stuttgart
	release and art, annual gifts 2010, EnBW, Stuttgart
2009	40th anniversary of Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau
	Homage to a Founding Generation, Forum Concrete Art, Erfurt
	Homage to the square, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
2008	Rationale II, Women's Museum, Bonn
	Solutions, Municipal Gallery Villa Streccius, Landau
	Bernd Berner and the Color Space Painting, Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau
	Progression. Paths to Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Freiburg
	Gegenstandslos, Society for Art and Design, Bonn
	The New Permanent Exhibition of the Moritzburg Foundation, Moritzburg Foundation, Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)
2007	Dialogues, Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau
	Sense of colors of modernity, Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau
2006	In the colors of the rainbow, Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau
	The Leipzig School. View into the collection /7, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig, Leipzig
2005	Leipzig and the constructive-concrete art, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig, Leipzig
2004	Gallery Gana-Beaubourg, Paris, France
	The Geometric View, Project Gallery VorOrtOst, Leipzig
	Stopping Points in the Becoming - Structures in Transformation, Sondershausen Castle, Sondershausen
2003	Created with Wax, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, USA
	10-Ten-X, Forum Concrete Art Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
2002	Rhythmic Renderings, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, USA
	21 × 21, Kunsthalle Giessen, Giessen, Germany
	No Line Too Many, Museums of the City of Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid
	Blue Hour, New Saxon Art Association, Dresden
2001	dialog fläche raum, Wiligrad Art Association, Wiligrad
	Small Treasures, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, USA
	Peoria Center of Art, Peoria, USA
2000	West German Artists' Association, Museums of the City of Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid
	100 Saxon Graphics, New Saxon Gallery, Chemnitz
	7th Leipzig Annual Exhibition, Handelshof Leipzig, Leipzig
	Great Art Exhibition Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich
1999	Annual gifts, Kestner Society, Hanover
	Color Form Concept, Municipal Gallery Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid
	9th Saxon Printmaking Symposium, Gallery in the Hörsaalbau, Leipzig
1995	Exposition 3 Konkret International, Museum Modern Art Hünfeld, Hünfeld
	Museum Signs of the Times - Collection Museum Modern Art Hünfeld, Forum Concrete Art Erfurt, Erfurt

The works of Edda Jachens are characterized by clear, geometric patterns, which in their reduced pictorial composition are reminiscent of Piet Mondrian. In 1998, Jachens began a new group of works that oscillates between painting and sculpture by covering the works with a 3 to 4 millimeter thick layer of kerosene wax. Through the evenly transparent wax layer, the colors and forms underneath are brought together to form a harmonious, even gentle and downright calm surface. The hard contrast of the forms is blurred by the kerosene. The abstract forms seem to float in space through the kerosene layer. The shapes and colors move into indefinable depth. The result: tranquility and contemplation. It seems as if the geometric shapes are surrounded by a mysterious aura. 

Circles Red 071107, 2007
60 × 40 × 1,5 cm   →

CROSSINGS RED 230306, 2006
50 × 50 × 15 cm   →

Layering, 2020
78 × 58 cm   →

Layering 070819, 2017
78 × 58 cm   →

MEDITATION 131205, 2005
35 × 28 × 1,5 cm   →

MEDITATION 311006, 2006
57,5 × 46 × 1,5 cm   →

Meditation purple, 2005
35 × 28 × 1,5 cm   →

Nocturne 170204, 2004
50 × 50 × 1,5 cm   →

Stratifications 091117, 2017
78 × 58 cm   →

Stratifications 101117, 2017
78 × 58 cm   →

Stratifications 201117, 2017
78 × 58 cm   →

Stratifications 280120, 2020
96,5 × 68 cm   →

Stratifications 310120, 2020
96,5 × 68 cm   →

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