Cornelia Schleime - Artist Info

About Cornelia Schleime

  • Biography

    Cornelia Schleime has developed a recognizable, autonomous vocabulary with which she depicts the universe according to her own insights and standards. In 1984, five years before the fall of the Berlin wall, Cornelia Schleime came to the West. This move meant, however, that she had to leave all her work behind in East Germany.

    During her first year in West Berlin she did not follow the international trends, such as performance or video, but did series of water colors, intuitive drawings and paintings – initially only for herself. Later came small installations with over painted photos or postcards and monumental canvases.

    Cornelia Schleime has a preference for manipulating forms and playing with formats. At the end of th...

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