Petra Klos: "Embrace" contemporary painting | acrylic

The artist Petra Klos

Consequently, the artist Petra Klos counts herself among the contemporary representatives of abstract art. Effectively she proves in her works which talent she has. She succeeds seemingly playfully in projecting powerful impulses with frenetic enthusiasm into her motifs, which are unmistakable for her characteristic style of art. Often, interrelationships of organic forms can be found, which critically illustrate her artistic work. Stylistically, Petra Klos' painting can be classified as Informel.

In her pictorial compositions, Petra Klos succeeds in constantly reprocessing her present emotions, fantasies and moods. Power, assertiveness, energy, as well as the artist's immediate feeling for color are consistently reflected in her abstractions.  She brings together disparate things, loves to experiment with materials, and has a keen sense of exemplary arrangement of color and texture. Using stylish and symptomatic painting techniques, the artist manages to express these qualities in color and form with pronounced passion and enthusiasm. A style that inspires reflection, to one's own interpretations. The Berlin-born artist says about herself: "For me, the picture surface is "a field open on all sides", so that many of my works - in spite of their limitations imposed by the format - appear as a section of a larger whole. In all of this, I prefer simplicity in form and consistently aim for the effect of coloration and texture in the surface, with the color red playing an important role alongside earth tones."

In the meantime, the purely emotional, non-representational works are repeatedly supplemented by abstract landscapes. The impressions Petra Klos gets on her travels, the artist tries to give back through her own interpretation. Thus one finds in the listing of her works beside the completely non-representational, often monochrome and color-reduced works, abstract, quite colorful landscape and coastal pictures. She deliberately abandons the real depiction of what she has seen and allows her impressions to flow into the colour compositions.

First successes - 2002 Klos received the Plaidter art price - brought the artist some peace and security. From then on she began to work more spontaneously, more directly, incorporating more emotionality and freedom. The artist follows her own appointed path independently of any trends. 

Short vita

Born 1956 in Berlin, lives and works in the Allgäu
2001 European Art Academy Trier, intensive studies in painting, drawing, object and printmaking, Bad Reichenhall Academy
Since 1994 freelance artist, Lecturer e.g. Art Academy Allgäu, Member Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) Swabia South

Solo exhibitions (excerpt)

2019     Waxmühle, Petingen (Luxembourg)
2018     Gallery Oberstdorf in Trettachhäusle
2017     Deutsche Postbank Zentrale, Bonn / Exhibition at Siemens in Cologne
2016     Gallery Augenblick, Tannheim (Austria) / Schloss Ummendorf / Burg Rode, Herzogenrath
2015     Gallery and Studio Raum und Raum, Oberstaufen / Gallery Seidenlicht, Bad Grönenbach / Gallery AndO, Oberstdorf
2014     City Hall Bad Hindelang
2013     Fiskina Fischen
2012     City Hall Haldenwang
2010     Altes Rentamt Mindelheim, Feldkirch/A, Stuttgart
2009     Augsburg, Immenstadt, Irsee, Stuttgart
1994 - 2008 Trier, Koblenz, Düsseldorf, New Haven USA, Munich, Brussels, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Mayen, Augsburg, Vaihingen, Esslingen

Exhibition participation (excerpt)

2019     Art in the Museum: "The Large Format", Memmingen, Füssen
             31st Art Exhibition of Swabian Artists, Irsee
             Art with Vision, Oberstdorf

2018     Art in dialogue with graphics of the 20th century, Oberstdorf / Literaturhaus Immenstadt
             BBK exhibitions in the museum Füssen and town hall Pfronten

2017     39. Ostallgäuer Kunstausstellung, Marktoberdorf
2016     Galeria Guschelbauer, Mörlenbach
2015     Kunstverein OFFArt, Günzburg / BBK im Literaturhaus Immenstadt / Kunst im GZI, Immenstadt
2014     Literaturhaus Immenstadt / Kunstverein Bad Wörishofen
2012     Die Südliche in Immenstadt and Oberstdorf
2011     Festwochenausstellung Kempten / Kunst im GZI Immenstadt / Ostallgäuer Kunstausstellung, Marktoberdorf
2010     Kunstwoche Bad Hindelang, "Die Südliche", Sonthofen
2009     Kunsthalle Kempten

Awards
2002 Plaidter Kunstpreis / Galerie Lampa, 2006 Galerie im Uhrturm, Dierdorf

Works in public space
Gleiss Lutz Stuttgart, City Hall Koblenz and Polch, Neue Pinakothek Munich

Artfairs 
ART Innsbruck/Karlsruhe/Bodensee, Salzburg, Art fair Waldbronn

Public purchases
ART Town Hall Polch, Koblenz, Pfronten, New Pinakothek Munich