Natja Jander

Artist Statement:

I live and work as a freelance artist in the beautiful german city Bonn on the Rhine river. After studying architecture, I worked for years as an architect in Cologne and Frankfurt/Main. Later I also completed a degree in painting and graphics in the master class of Dr. Piotr Sonnewend at the Institute for Fine Arts and Art Therapy (IbKK) in Bochum. Since then I have been working as a freelance artist. I am a member of the Association of Visual Artists BBK Bonn, Rhein-Sieg e.V.

In my painting, the focus of my artistic work is on the young people of Generation Z (born 1995 - 2012, the 1st post-digital generation), who grew up with digitalization. This is what I aesthetically implement this internalization of the digital world as a snapshot in my realistic oil paintings. Due to the reduced, broken color palette and the resulting soft color tone, the poetic effect of my pictures and graphics is intensified.
My works are regularly shown in selected solo and group exhibitions and have already been awarded the "art'pu:l Windeck Art Prize 2014" and the "Art Prize Painting 2012" by the Uhrturm-Galerie Dierdorf.

Education:

1990-1994 study of architecture in Cologne, graduated with a diploma
since 1994 working as an architect 
2008-2010 study of painting and graphics at the IbKK in Bochum 
2010-2013 master class of Dr Piotr Solvend
2013 graduated with a diploma in painting and graphics (IbKK)
freelance artist since 2013
2018 Foundation of the painting school KUNSTKELLER BONN
Memberships: Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) Bonn, Rhein-Sieg eV; VG Bild-Kunst (BG I)

Awards & Distinctions:

2014 "art'pu:l Windeck Art Award 2014" for work and presentation
2013 "Partizipia Art Prize II" in d-52. raum for contemporary art in Düsseldorf,
2012 "Art Award Painting 2012" of the Uhrturm-Galerie Dierdorf, 1st prize

Exhibitions:

2021
ARTMUC art fair, Munich
ARTBOX.PROJECT World 1.0, Zug, Switzerland
2020
Sinzig Print Art Festival, BBK Bonn, Rhein-Sieg in the Alte Druckerei Sinzig
ARTLOKAL, Kulturhalle kabelmetal, Windeck
"APRILAPRIL" Producer gallery Article 5, Aachen
32nd KunstTage Rhein-Erft, Brauweiler Abbey - digital version with artist portrait video
2019
"Simultaneous -Zeitzeichen "the BBK Federal Association in the Remagen Artists' Forum
45 years of BBK Bonn, Rhein-Sieg, Pumpwerk-Art Association Rhein-Sieg-Kreis eV
2018
"Ceremony 50 years of the Semikolon artist group "in the Bonn-Hardtberg cultural center
ART KAMEN 2018 international art fair
"The half point"Anniversary exhibition of the artist group Semikolon in the Artists' Forum Bonn
2017
"SO or SO "Natja Jander + Detlef Schlaak in the MASH gallery, Remagen
"Fresh fragrance and alpine air" with the group Fünfbettzimmer GmbK in the electoral gardener's house, Bonn
2016
ART KAMEN 2016 internal art fair
"Parallel" exchange exhibition of the BBK Bonn / Rhein-Sieg e. V. with the BBK Düsseldorf eV in the BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf
"Occupy Space" with the artist group Semikolon in the house on the Redoute, Bonn-Bad Godesberg
"Work & Women-Pioneers and Milestones of the Women's Work Super Women" in the Women's Museum Bonn
2015
"AugenBlick" in the town hall Wesseling
art fair. 25 in the women's museum Bonn
"60 to 60th" Young forum art Siegburg eV in cooperation with antiform eV
"NEUE 2015" of the BBK Bonn, Rhein-Sieg eV in the artist forum Remagen
2014
art´pu: l Windeck - fair for contemporary art
2013
"Partizipia-Kunstpreis II" in d-52. room for contemporary art in Düsseldorf
"Free painting" in the art and gallery house Bochum
2012
"Art Prize Painting 2012" of the clock tower gallery in Dierdorf

Professional/Teaching Experience:

I am the owner and teacher of the painting school "KUNSTKELLER BONN"

Artistic Influences:

Light and Shadow by Rembrandt van Rijn; the German artists Gerhard Richter, Neo Rauch and Jonas Burgert; the figurative works of Jenny Saville