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“Des Nuits en Couleur”
150 x 105 cm, 2020
wax print textile collage on canvas (sold)

Artist statement
I am a thread waving into the texture of the universe.
My thread is light - source ~ light - wave channelling energy ~ vibrating with other
energetic waves. Creating resonance.

Biography
Magdalena Maatkare, a German artist based in Berlin, passed her Bachelor at the
Sorbonne in Paris and her Master degree at the ENS LYON (École Normale
Supérieure). She has been raised up and lives now in several cultures: Germany –
France – and West Africa (Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.)
Inspired of the multifaceted and cultural meaningful wax-print-textile-motives
of West-African cultures (Senegal, Ivory Coast a.m.) where the artist spent more than
two years of her life, she creates in every of her works with innumerable
textile particles new cultural textile units. Textiles are for the artist symbols of culture
- mostly visible in clothes. Waxprint-textiles are not only a cultural narrative through
the cultural transfer from Indonesia to Africa to Europe and back to Africa but also
through their meaningful patterns. Today they are understood from West African
people as a part of their identity. Very important for the artist is the connection of
cultures in our days: through her artwork she contributes to this in form of an active
European - African connection: she receives the textiles from tailors knowing from
her time in West-Africa and gives them a part of the art sale in return.
Maatkare’s works are collages combining in a very special way painting and textile
art, and each artwork reveals an energetic strong explosion of colour. Maatkare
works with vigorous colours because each colour has the power to transmit energy
through the vibration of the light wave - producing a healing effect on the onlooker.
Her works can be received as creatures lightening up transcendental experiences.
After exhibitions in the international art scene (Dakar, Paris, Berlin, Venice, Madrid,
Monaco etc.) she is becoming an established artist with her very own technique of
textile collages with waxprint fabric. Besides her oeuvres, she creates installations
and performances shown during her exhibitions and other events. Some video
recordings are available for viewing on her website (www.magdalenamaatkare.com).

M. Maatkare
Born 1988 in Langenargen, lives and works in Berlin and Paris
VITA
2019 Artist in Residence (Dakar)
2016 Artist in Residence (Dakar, Conakry, Abidjan)
2015 Master-Graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon
and University of Fribourg im Breisgau
2012 Bachelor-Graduate of the Sorbonne Paris
SOLOEXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2020 "Der Stoff aus dem Träume sind", Kunsthaus Caserne, Friedrichshafen
2019 "ME-TISSAGES", Galerie Petra Lange, Berlin, Germany
2019 „NEW WORKS“, Schygulla Salon, Berlin, Germany
2018 „Die Auferstehung des Phönix“, Gallery Voodoo, Berlin, Germany
2017 „Kulturelle Szenen aus Waxprint“, Afrika-Haus, Berlin, Germany
2017 „Scènes culturelles en pagne africain“, Raconte-moi la Terre, Lyon, France
2017 „Scènes culturelles en pagne africain“, Goethe-Institut, Dakar, Senegal
2016 „Eine Reise durch West-Afrika“, Corosol Café-Gallery, Freiburg, Germany
GROUP – EXHIBITIONS (2020)
2020 – „Im Atelier entdeckt“, Galerie Petra Lange, Berlin
2020 – Venice International Art Fair, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice
2020 – „Summer Tracks“ – Programa Taide, Madrid
2020 – „Die Poesie der Horizonte“, Galerie Petra Lange, Berlin
2020 – Art3F Salon, Monte Carlo, Monaco
2020 – Van Gogh Art Gallery, Madrid

“Ascension”
120 x 120 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas

“Baies Roses“
77 x 57 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Diamond“
100 x 100 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas

“Leuchtturm“
62,5 x 42,5 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Goldsträhne“
76,5 x 57,5 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Coriolis“
120 x 120 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas

“Invision”
180 x 130 cm, 2020
wax print textile collage on canvas, framed

“Crystal“
63,5 x 39,5 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Turn II“
47 x 57 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Turn I“
43 x 53 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Inextasis“
150 x 105 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Heimathafen“
150 x 105 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Enfants du paradis”
150 x 110 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Oculus”
90 x 40 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas

“Ver-Zwei-Samung”
151 x 111 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas. framed

“Turn III“
60 x 40 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Turn In“
54 x 54 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Inunion“
73 x 78 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on carton, framed

“Watching You“
73 x 78 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Inmatrix”
120 x 160 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas

“Metissages““
100 x 100 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed (sold)

“Galaxis“
54 x 54 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Crystal O(a)ses”
54 x 54 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Ent-Wicklung“
70 x 100 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed (sold)

“Crownprocess”
70 x 10 cm, 2020
waxprint textile collage on canvas

“Sirqdesoleil“
40 x 30 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on carton, framed

“Himmelruf“
40 x 30 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed (sold)

“Lotus“
40 x 30 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Peacock“
40 x 30 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Hochhinaus“
100 x 70 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed (sold)

“Schwindelfrei“
150 x 105 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed (sold)

“Afrohyper“
150 x 105 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Indaffa“
150 x 105 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas, framed

“Vogelhochzeit“
145 x 100 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas (sold)

“Vulva“
145 x 100 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas (sold)

“Glückshaut“
145 x 100 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on canvas (sold)

“Maskerade“
145 x 100 cm, 2018
waxprint textile collage on carton (sold)

“Neue Geburt“
75 x 55 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on carton (sold)

“Crowndancer“
45 x 20 cm, 2019
waxprint textile collage on carton, framed (sold)

“Phönix“
100 x 70 cm, 2017
waxprint textile collage on carton, framed

“Dies- und Jenseits“
90 x 124 cm, 2018
waxprint textile collage on carton, framed

“Harlekin“
84 x 62 cm, 2018
waxprint textile collage on carton, framed

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