Christine Rieck-Sonntag | Paintings | Graphics | Sculptures | Contemporary Art

Christine Rieck-Sonntag

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1941 Born in Zwickau
ab 1972 Studied religious pedagogy and painting with G. Bammes, Dresden - B. Heisig, Berlin - I. Barfuß, Berlin
1996 Certification of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
member of the German and Austrian artists association GEDOK and the federal association of fine artist (BBK)

Awards

1994 Art award from the VR-Banken Landshut
1995 Distinction award of First Art-Biennale Malta
1999 Leipzig Book Fair award
2010 Konrad-Lutz-Award, Munich

Scholarships

2002 Scholarship Künstlerkolonie Bazato, Slovenia
2004 Scholarship "Virginia Center for the Creative Arts", USA
2006 Scholarship Giambattista Bodoni Museum of Berlin
2008 / 09 Scholarship J.D.White Artist’s Colony, Costa Rica
2010 Arts- und environmental project "Chunches de Mar”, Costa Rica
2012 Scholarship Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2015 Scholarship Veliko Trnovo
2011 / 17 Scholarship art society Frankfurt/Oder

Film Portraits

1995 Film portrait on the 3. Bavarian TV channel
2002 Film portrait from Marco Susic (German aund English)
2010 Film projekt with Music from R. Köll a. S. Ammansberger
2020 Film portrait on Lower Bavaria TV Landshut
an overview of all videos

Books of Reference

2007 Kürschners book of reference of fine artists

Lectureships

2003-05 / 08 Lectureship summer academy Coburg, „Akt“
2010 / 11 / 12 Lectureship „Werkstadt Landshut“

Single Exhibitions (Selection)

1989 Berlin, Evangelischer Kirchentag
1990 Bad Nauheim, Galerie Rademacher
1991 Landshut, Kunstverein
1992 Valletta/Malta, Nationalmuseum of Fine Arts
1993 Munich, Evangelischer Kirchentag
1994 Valletta/Malta, Nationalmuseum of Fine Arts
Dresden, Haus für Kultur und Bildung
1995 Plovdiv/Bulgaria, Nationalbibliothek
1996 Munich, Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Arbeit u. Soziales
Samokov/Bulgarien, Stadtmuseum
London, Gallery LP
1997 BMW Landshut
Munich, Bavaria-Filmzentrum Geiselgasteig
1998 Rabat/Malta, Wigna Court Museum
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Zweigstelle Obernzell
1999 Valletta/Malta, Labyrinth-Gallery
2000 Venedig, Centro Culturale Giudecca
Dom von Schwerin
2001 Munich, house of artists "Künstlerhaus"
2002 New York University
2003 Kunstverein Kronach/Kunstverein Bad Aibling
2004 Bonn, Auswärtiges Amt
New York, German consulate general
2005 / 16 Wiesbaden, womens museum (Frauenmuseum)
2005 / 16 Munich, Lyrikkabinett

2006 Berlin, Bodoni-Museum of Berlin
Leipzig, gallery "Süd"
Murnau, artists association
2008 Leipzig, book fair
2009 / 11 Costa Rica/Galeria Nacional San José
2010 BSTU Dresden and Leipzig
2011 Berlin, "Helle Panke"
Frankfurt/Oder, artists association
Deggendorf, municipal museum
2012 Merseburg (Saxony-Anhalt), "ben zi bena"
Plovdiv, Bulgaria, TrakArt-Museum
2013 / 15 Sofia, Bulgaria, gallery of the artists association
Vienna, Kosmostheater
Hengersberg, museum
Passau, "Kulturmodell Bräugasse"
Landshut, gallery "Rose"
2014 / 19 Munich, German Academy of Psychoanalysis
2015 / 18 Ried/Innkreis, Austria, "galerie20gerhaus"
2016 Landshut, artists association
2017 Plovdiv, municipal gallery,
Veliko Tarnovo national gallery, Bulgaria
Frankfurt/Oder, artists association
2019 Passau, "Kulturmodell Bräugasse"
2019 Freyung, Volksmusikakademie Bayern
2021 Frankfurt/Oder, Spectrum Galerie
2022 Landshut, Rochuskapelle
2022 Passau, Galerie Priller

"Christine Rieck-Sonntag’s artistic career developed in a most explosive manner - although not audibly. Her palette became restrained and full of toning shades, unfolding thereby an orchestral refinement of nuances, lines and colours. Expressive movement and painting- techniques came together to form increasingly complex units. The existential exertion evidenced in her works is itself both compelled and compelling - it reveals a person who paints for their very life, all or nothing: an artist for whom art is not primarily aesthetic, but magic: the conjuration of and wrestling with the very depths of existence."
Janna Miles, Landshut aktuell, Nov. 1991

"…Childhood and age are combined and contrasted. Sometimes an expressive brush outlines the forms of figures which suggest a child’s head or mother and child and which are rendered in a differentiated manner from the deliberately pale and faded portraits of the aged. Here, pastel blue and pink tones are used to sensitively describe the thin and limp yet not unappealing elder people’s bodies…"
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 06.10.1995

…Both reflection and humour can be found in this artist’ highly personal visual expression..."
Münchner Merkur, 07.03.1996

Directly on YouTube

"Christine Rieck-Sonntag - Portrait of a Painter"
by filmmaker Marco Susic (in German and English).
Music: Graham Waterhouse
Exhibition "Bilder von Drüben" (pictures from over there)
recording of the vernissage at "ben zi bena" in Merseburg, 2012
Painting course "Aktzeichnen" (nude drawing)
held at the KOENIGmuseum in Landshut

Richard Köll and Stefan Amannsberger play their compositions to pictures from Christine Rieck-Sonntag.

"Sonntag, der 6."
excerpt from the picture cycle "Ein Schluck Wasser" ("a sip of water")
"Das grün-rote Weiß"
excerpt from the picture cycle "Pura Vida"
"The Everywhere Calypso"
also an excerpt from the picture cycle "Pura Vida"
"Penthesilea - ein Liebesspiel" (Trailer)
interdisciplinary art project bringing together painting, literature and music

on "Lower Bavarian TV Landshut" media library

"Künstlerleben – Ein Einblick in den Alltag von Christine Rieck-Sonntag"
(Bohemian Life – Insight into Everyday Life of Christine Rieck-Sonntag)