Claudia Rega

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Current and Recent Exhibitions:

July 11 - July 14, 2024.

Hamptons Fine Art Fair

Good Grounds, Drowned Meadows.

Claudia Rega, Xiao He, objet A.D, Chris Reisig and Leeza Taylor

Political-Economy Project.

Available Works:

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March 2 - April 6, 2024.

Other Days

Claudia Rega, Frantz Jean-baptiste, Grant Falardeau, Xiao He, Daniela Soberman, Rudik Ovsepyan, Sinclair Vicisitud.

Group Exhibition.

Documentation:

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Release:

+ File; Curate LA

Press:

+ This Week’s Must-See Art (Curate LA: February 29-March 6, 2024)

+ LA Art Openings & Spotlight (ArtRabbit: February 28, 2024).

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Bio

Claudia Rega is a contemporary German artist living and working in Münster, Germany. With richly textured yet smoothly flowing surfaces, she works primarily through painting and drawing with oil, acrylic, and oil-stick. Combining landscape perspectives and drifting figural populations, her practice traces aesthetic and historical relations between natural scenes and the power of the young girl. By simultaneously working-through traditions of landscape-paintings and the art historical obsession with the feminine figure, her works locate a vulnerable power between nature—or, more specifically, a changing but precious environment—and femininity. Her expressive practice does not necessarily distinguish between abstraction and figuration: a body and the world that reaches out from (or towards) it occur at the same time, in a continuous painterly sequence. Time, memory, femininity, and (dis)appearing space are recurring horizons of her work.

Some of her most recent (2023) exhibitions and excursions include: G.ART.EN, Como, Selfscape; Stav Art Gallery, New York, USA; Pouch Cove Foundation, Residency, Canada; Inventory, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin, D, G; and Volta Basel, Karl Oskar Gallery, Basel, CH.

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“The feminine identity is primarily reflected through me as a female painter. I always choose to come back to paint, draw and reflect how girls and young women are living and raised nowadays. The latter shows in my paintings, although it may not always be visible. The strong powerful female energy ties into the situation we as women find ourselves in today. The female figure is embedded in ‘nature’, the outdoors. Experiencing climate change and a pandemic I feel so much more part of the natural environment as it dictates my perceptions and actions in an inevitable way. To see and feel the connectedness and beauty in this is a constant drive in my paintings. When I think of the viewer looking at my paintings, I’m hoping for a bit of unfamiliarity compared to ones own experience and the lust to discover something outside ones own body and mind. I love to paint and construct different worlds and discover something new.”

{Statement Courtesy of the Artist.}

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