Angelika Summa

1952 born in Bayreuth, lives and works in Würzburg since 1986 freelancer

until 1991 studies of art history, archeology and German language and literature (M.A.)

1995 cultural promotion award of the city of Würzburg

1998/99 studio support program of the Freistaat Bayern

since 2008 Lecturer for Body Sculpture, Art Education University Würzburg

2009 Sculpture Symposium Kaiserslautern, Art Association Sculptures Rhineland-Palatinate

2010 Paul Ernst Wilke Scholarship Bremerhaven Skulptura, Sculpture Symposium Beckingen, Saarland

2014 PEMA Culture Award of the KV Bayreuth

2014 Culture Award of the City of Würzburg

2015 Art award of the city of Ansbach (2nd prize)

Angelika Summa's artistic concept aims neither at outlining nor at exposing volumes. Her interest is in three-dimensional structures that spread out in simple forms. These loose spatial meshes of collected, industrially prefabricated wires, tubes, ribbons, or ropes of metal rhythmize a space whose boundaries remain indistinctly overgrown. The structure of these growths is the core theme of the sculptor. Her sculptures fascinate by the symbiosis of the industrial uniformity of the material with an organic seeming order. Natural movements, such as proliferation, flowing, pulsating, circling, growing, decaying, meandering and the like, are always echoed in them. In Angelika Summa's artistic language, relics of our time are uniquely given a timeless meaning and a spiritual dimension in a new compound.