Artworks from Petra Klos

Gestural-dynamic painting style with considerable expressiveness

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

Working method

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 sense of colour 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 colour and texture. Using stylish and symptomatic painting techniques, the artist manages to express these qualities in colour and form with pronounced passion and enthusiasm. A style that stimulates reflection, 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 appear - despite their limitations imposed by the format - as a section of a larger whole. In all this, I prefer simplicity in form and consistently aim for the effect of colouration and structure in the surface, with the colour red playing an important role alongside earth tones."

In the meantime, the purely emotional, non-representational works are repeatedly complemented by abstract landscapes. The artist tries to reflect the impressions Petra Klos gets on her travels through her own interpretation. Thus, in the list of her works, one finds abstract, thoroughly colourful landscape and coastal pictures alongside the completely non-representational, often monochrome and colour-reduced works. She deliberately abandons the real depiction of what she sees and allows her impressions to flow into the colour compositions.

Initial successes - in 2002 Klos received the Plaidter Kunstpreis - brought the artist national recognition and greater reach. In addition to significant solo exhibitions in major European cities and public purchases, for example by the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the artist Petra Klos has also made an international name for herself in the USA.

Short vita

Born 1956 in Berlin, lives and works in Allgäu
2001 European Art Academy Trier, intensive studies in painting, drawing, object and printmaking, Bad Reichenhaller Academy
Since 1994 freelance artist, lecturer at the Allgäu Art Academy and other institutions, member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) Schwaben South

Solo exhibitions (excerpt)

2020 Gallery Abstract Moments (Dresden)
2019 Waxmühle, Petingen (Luxembourg)
2018 Gallery Oberstdorf in the Trettachhäusle
2017 Deutsche Postbank Head Office, Bonn / Exhibition at Siemens in Cologne
2016 Gallery Augenblick, Tannheim (Austria) / Castle Ummendorf / Castle Rode, Herzogenrath
2015 Gallery and Studio Raum und Raum, Oberstaufen / Gallery Seidenlicht, Bad Grönenbach / Gallery AndO, Oberstdorf
2014 Town Hall Bad Hindelang
2013 Fiskina Fischen
2012 Town Hall Haldenwang
2010 Old Rent Office 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

Exhibitions (excerpt)

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

2018 Art in dialogue with 20th century graphics, Oberstdorf / Literature House Immenstadt
             BBK exhibitions in the Museum Füssen and Town Hall Pfronten

2017 39th Ostallgäu Art Exhibition, Marktoberdorf
2016 Galeria Guschelbauer, Mörlenbach
2015 Kunstverein OFFArt, Günzburg / BBK at Literaturhaus Immenstadt / Kunst im GZI, Immenstadt
2014 Literature House Immenstadt / Art Association Bad Wörishofen
2012 The Southern in Immenstadt and Oberstdorf
2011 Festival exhibition Kempten / Art in the GZI Immenstadt / Ostallgäu art exhibition, Marktoberdorf
2010 Art week Bad Hindelang, "Die Südliche", Sonthofen
2009 Art Gallery Kempten

Awards

2002 Plaidter Art Prize / Lampa Gallery, 2006 Gallery in the Clock Tower, Dierdorf

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

Art fairs

ART Innsbruck / ART Karlsruhe / Lake Constance, Salzburg, Waldbronn Art Fair