Tomma Abts

Tomma Abts (born 1967 in Kiel ) is a German painter and winner of the prestigious Turner Prizes 2006. Since the late 1990s, the London-based artist paints small-scale, abstract acrylic and oil paintings is predominantly geometric forms.

Life and work

Tomma Abts studied from 1989 to 1995 at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. She lives and works since 1995 in London.

In 2004 she received The Paul Hamlyn Foundation of the Award for the Visual Arts. The prize is awarded annually since 1998 to five artists in the UK and Ireland. 2006 Tomma Abts was awarded the Britain's most important prize for fine arts the Turner Prize. In the justification for the award their solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Basel and in the gallery called greengrassi ( London).

The abstract acrylic and oil paintings of Tomma Abts are often created in a lengthy process of painting. The strict, geometric compositions of the works do not refer to the seen, but evolve from the logic of superimposed, multiple layers of paint.

Each of her paintings is in this prolonged process of painting painted in different layers, in some plants, the initial situation is still visible, in others it has almost completely disappeared. In each step, it changes the structure and composition and adds a new layer of paint. This process of formation and revision requires time, which the is characterized by repetitive principle in questioning and rethinking. Each image is a picturesque research, in which each phase of the image and any subjective decision is important. She composes images that seem complex and spatially, and may change depending on the point in their perception.

The title of her abstract oil and acrylic paintings, such as " Feye ", " Ehme ", the ( 38 × 48 cm) are executed always a uniform size, it passes from one directory name German ago.

With effect from summer term 2010 Abbot was appointed full professor of painting at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf.

Exhibitions

The description is limited to the solo exhibitions of Tomma Abts

Awards

  • 2004: "The Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts "
  • 2006: " Turner Prize 2006"
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