Michaela Kölmel Explained

Michaela Kölmel
Birth Date:1956
Birth Place:Karlsruhe, West Germany
Death Date:2007 (aged 51)
Death Place:Karlsruhe, Germany
Resting Place:Karlsruhe, Germany
Nationality:West German; German
Education:Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe

Michaela Kölmel (1956 - 2007) was a German artist and university professor from Karlsruhe.[1] Her artistic work included drawings, sculptures, site-specific installations, and interventions in public spaces.

Life and work

From 1980 to 1986, she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Prof. Hiromi Akiyama and Prof. David Lauer. She was awarded the Graduate Scholarship of the State of Baden-Württemberg and further scholarships took her to the Cité des Arts in Paris (1992). She also received a lectureship at the University of Pforzheim (1995/99) and Ahrenshoop (2000), funded by the Kunstfonds Berlin. In 2002, Kölmel became a professor at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, where she taught courses including Interior Design, Sculpture, Drawing, and Art History until her death in 2007.

Ministry of Science and Art of Baden-Württemberg style

Working in the tradition of minimalism prominent in the 1960s, Kölmel explored the complexity found in the simple and elemental. Her work examined the contrast between forms with a straightforward and unspectacular exterior and those with a mysterious, luminous interior, using such materials as highly polished copper tubes, stainless steel sheets, and mirror glass. Concept, process, and material determined her work.

Kölmel used these materials for wall- and floor-related works. She also used them in site-specific productions to connect spaces and generate unusual fields of perception (Installation MultiMediale 2 and ZKM 1992, Installation Orgelhalle 1994, Installation Galerie Rottloff, 2006). Using materials that reflect light, Kölmel created complex sensorial spaces of high intensity with simple means; she contained dense formal language that opened up difficult dialogues between the work, the viewer, and the room.

In her drawings, Kölmel preferred foil, graphite powder, and a cutting knife to conventional paper and pencil. She created arrangements of lines through cuts on the graphite surface, giving them a relief-like appearance.

Kölmel's work is part of various public collections, including the Ministry of Science and Art of Baden-Württemberg, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and the [de]. They are also in numerous private collections, such as the Museum für aktuelle Kunst - Sammlung Hurrle [de] and the collection of Reinhold Würth.

Selected exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: May 2019 . Collection & Archives/ People/ Michaela Kölmel . ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
  2. Web site: LichtSchatten Vernissage Flyer . https://web.archive.org/web/20190910230136/https://www.lukasgemeinde-karlsruhe.de/Grafiken/KNM_LichtSchatten_1905_Flyer_v4.pdf . September 10, 2019 . November 27, 2019.
  3. Web site: 2012 . gestern - heute - morgen: Ausstellung und Kolloquium des Künstlerbundes Baden-Württemberg zum 60-jährigen Jubiläum des Landes Baden-Württemberg . gestern - heute - morgen: Exhibition and colloquium of the artist association Baden-Württemberg on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the state of Baden-Württemberg . https://web.archive.org/web/20191030012037/https://www.kuenstlerbund-bawue.de/ausstellungen/gestern-heute-morgen.html . October 30, 2019 . November 27, 2019 . Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg [Baden-Württemberg Artists' Association].
  4. Web site: 2011 . Spektral - Diametral in der Städtischen Galerie Karlsruhe . https://web.archive.org/web/20190910230137/https://www.kunstportal-bw.de/stgaka2011spektralinfo3.html . September 10, 2019 . November 27, 2019 . Kunstportal Baden-Württemberg [Art Portal Baden-Württemberg].
  5. Web site: 1995 . Ohne Titel - Michaela Kölmel . Untitled - Michaela Kölmel . November 27, 2019 . Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
  6. Web site: Künstlerinnen 1994 - 2010 . Artists 1994-2010 . November 27, 2019 . Gabrielle Münter Preis [Gabriele Münter Prize].
  7. Web site: 1999 . Ohne Titel (Welle-Japan) - Michaela Kölmel (1999) . Untitled (Wave-Japan) . November 27, 2019 . Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
  8. Web site: Michaela Kölmel . November 27, 2019 . Galerie Rottloff, Karlsruhe - Zeitgenössische Kunst [Rottloff Gallery, Karlsruhe - Contemporary Art].
  9. Web site: 1997 . ohne Titel - Kupferrohr, Spanplatte . untitled - copper pipe, chipboard . November 27, 2019 . förderverein aktuelle kunst münster e.v. [Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art Münster e.V.].
  10. [:de:Badischer Kunstverein|Badischer Kunstverein]
  11. Web site: Sculptura Ulm ´93 / Sculptura Ulm ´94 . November 27, 2019 . pro arte ulmer kunststiftung.
  12. Web site: Michaela Kölmel | ZKM . November 27, 2019 . zkm.de.

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