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About me:

“My name is Alexandra Czierpka. I was born in Poland under communist leadership. In this phase of life I was very fascinated by the colorful, intimate green zones of the houses, gardens and parks in-between the rather colorless and gray surroundings. My imagination and fascination about color and some kind of disgust about the careless, unfair treatment of nature played an important role in this childhood/teenage time and still have a strong influence on „my“ imaginative landscapes of today. In my daily walks through the formerly planned summer residence for the family of the Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck, a fairytale-like castle with a spacious, botanical park, a nun run orphanage and also a large State Farm (PGR) in my first life town Naklo Slaskie I developed a fascination about such “splendors” and such a „neglect“.
In the communist time the castle was converted to a school, what brought even more ambivalence into the scenery.

These feelings, still persisting in my memory, find themselves repeatedly in my paintings: The discrepancy between admiration, fascination, outrage and powerlessness.

In 1983 my family immigrated to Southern Germany, Here I first graduated from the high school. I obtained my professional qualification and a degree at the legendary Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. During my studies, I mainly worked on interdisciplinary visual art projects and gained my first exhibition experiences. During my two years at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg I realized two group exhibitions for the Hamburg Senate and one solo exhibition curated and held by DGB (German Workers Union).

In 2001 I finished my studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar with a degree.

I have been working as a professional artist since 2015, initially in Berlin in the shared studio with a collective gallery together with other artists and creatives. Currently I’m working in my own small studio in Barcelona. I am mainly working in acrylic technique on canvas or paper, but not in a puristic manner: Pencil traces, oil pastel pencils and other media consciously appear in the works.“

Member
 of:

GEDOK Berlin (Society of artists and art sponsors since 1926 with own gallery)
, Bereich: Bildende Kunst
 (field: visual arts)

Suarezstrasse 57, 14057 Berlin


https://www.gedokberlin.de

Education in Germany:

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar


Fachbereich Kunst und Gestaltung

(Faculty: Visual Art and Design
)

Hochschulabschluss (University degree): 2001


Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HfbK)