Visual Artist | Germany
"I do not try to disclose what is hidden. The secret should be preserved, just like beauty, which perhaps lies especially within the denseness, and encryption, within the mystery." Since 2001, Skadi Engeln’s paintings and prints have dealt with landscape as a symbol of the world. Since 2011, her works of art have been “disturbed” or “interwoven” by traces of human perception and intervention. By means of lines and stripes, mostly vertical, man has integrated himself in her landscapes, both as observer and actor. Skadi’s landscapes have thus been inscribed with rhythm and conflict. Landscape as a synonym for the world reflects underlying realities and truths, encrypts them, makes them show through and discloses them only as approximations. The horizon, often the central focus of Skadi’s artistic work, separates and connects what is above and what is underneath, what is obvious and hidden. It is not her aim to decode what is above and what is underneath. The secret should be kept – and the beauty which perhaps lies in the encrypted, in the mysterious. Since 2016, Skadi includes man in her work and artistically examines a possible synthesis of landscape and figure, of the world and human beings. The land now has a soul, and the meaning of landscape has been redesignated: Now it is not only a synonym of the world, an object of observation and intervention by human beings: In Skadi’s art, landscape now turns into an actual backdrop for human life and work.
Skadi's works can be found in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Bonn, Hamburg, Munich, Paris, Graz, New York, Molde, and in the homes of other international collectors.
Cultural Award Lower Austria 2009
Skadi Engeln studied at the FH Otterberg, sculpture with Robert van de Laar painting with Michael Kohr and Hermanus Westendorp and lives and works in Berlin and France.
Solo Exhibitions
2018 "Landscape and Figure", MCZ Templin; "... Landscapes" Galerie Flierl, Berlin
2016 «Dressed Nudes and New Landscapes», Serigraffeur Gallery , Berlin; «Bordered landscape», Zionskirche, Berlin
2016 Le Paradis - Chateaumeillant, Office de tourisme Chateaumeillant
2015 Atelier Marc-Michel Gabali, Les Archers - Le Chatelet, «interlaced landscape»,Main street of the Park Clinic-Weißensee
2014 «Berlin Berry», rencontres des arts,
2014 Mers sur Indre, France; «Landscape view»,
2014 Blue Hour Gallery, Berlin
2013 Skadi Angels - Walter Karberg, Atelier Ina Klopfer, Wagenitz-Haveland; "Les paysages polychromes de skadi angels", premiere fête de l'estampe, Paris
2012 «Störbilder», exhibition space. Steinerhaus, Hamburg,
2012 Galerie Blaues Atelier, Graz, Austria
2011 Rencontres des Arts, Mers-sur-Indre, France
2010 "Meereseslandschaften" Gallery GAD, Berlin
2010 "only sea", Gallery Artschwimmer , Berlin
2010 "paysages", Mairie St. Jeanvrin, France
2010 "Lichten" Galerie Frehnhofer, Berlin
2009 "Landscapes", Versiko, Berlin
2008 "Early and current works", Galerie Sondermann, Essen
2008 "Landscapes", Tausendschön, Berlin
2007 White & Case 2, Berlin
2006 "New Landscapes", Costabel, Berlin
2005 Thyssenkrupp, Krefeld
2005 "Land and bellies", Troy, Berlin-Mitte
2005 "Flight tests", Artchair, Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg
2004 D2 Dusseldorf 4, Dusseldorf "Water Pictures ", Wasserkontor, Berlin "Landscape and Body", Art Veritti, Berlin
2002 Borgwardt design presents, Berlin
2001 Dance Center Rose, Bonn
1997 Author Gallery, Munich "Imagery", Atelier 13b, Bochum Kulturforum Essen
1995 Gallery Station Ottersberg
Group Exhibitions
2019 "Landscape - Painting" Gallery Z22, Berlin
2018 "Drawings and Prints - A Pictorial Journey from the 20th to the 21st Century", Galerie am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin; Kunstsalon am Weissen See: 4. "Himmel und Erde", 5. "Frauenzimmer", 6. "Prints from the Bethanien"; "Heimat" Gallery Z 22-Berlin; "Summer Accrochage" GKAG - Berlin;
2017 Galerie Maerz Contemporary, Molde , Kunstsalon am Weissensee: 1. "Land and Ornament", 2. "Light, Green and Man - Landscape and Figure", 3. "Printing and Painting"; "Landscape and Face - paysage et visage", Sepp Mayer's 2Raumwohnung, Berlin; "Inland", Galerie Brötzinger Artt, Pforzheim, Gallery Kunstwerk Fellbach
2016 «Frauenzimmer», reinraum / Galerie Ephemer Berlin-Wuppertal, Dusseldorf; "Menagerie", Toolbox-Berlin; "ARTWORK WORK ART", Schloß Reinbek, Reinbek
2014 «Horizonte», municipal gallery in the historic cellar, Berlin-Spandau
2013 "Bilderzeit", Gallery Wetterney, Berlin; Looking through landscapes ", Prima Center Berlin
2013 " estampe narrative ", Gallery of the AAB, Paris
2013 Journée de l'Estampe Contemporaine, Paris
2013 Long Night ... in color, Gallery Wetterney, Berlin
2013 " estampe narrative ", Gallery of the AAB, Paris
2012 Berlin-Belleville, gallery of the AAB, Paris
2012 Zwonulldreisehn, Galerie Wetterney, Berlin
2012 "The space-three positions", Galerie Mai, Dusseldorf
2012 Atelier-Werkschau, Carlos Lopez - Skadi Engeln, Berlin
2012 "portes ouvertes des ateliers de Belleville", Paris
2011 Gallery May Düsseldorf
2011 "Shared rooms, Zionskirche Berlin
2010 HF Contemporary Art, London-Berlin
2010 "small formats", Galerie Frenhofer, Berlin
2010 Berliner Liste, Galerie Frenhofer
2010 "Ah! La vache!" Au Cadran, Chateaumeillant, France
2010 Gallery Exchange - Frenhofer and Eigenheim, Weimar
2009 "Wunderblumen", Galerie Frenhofer, Berlin
2009 "In the name of color - Skadi Engeln - Teresa Casanueva, Galerie Konvex, Berlin
2009 Kunstsalon, Berlin, represented by Galerie Frenhofer
2007 Art / Gardens, Bad Freienwalde
2007 "Weissenseher", Gruppe Q, Berlin
2007 Historical Gewälbegalerie, Berlin Spandau
2006 "Quintessence", group Q, Berlin
2005 "Faces", "Quotations", "13", Group Q, Berlin
2005 "objekts of comfort", Across the bridge + Werketage, Berlin
2005 "What's cooking?", Across the bridge + Werkage, Gallery Galou, NY - Brooklyn
2004 Formart, 12th International Art Exhibition, Kunstverein Glinde eV
2004 "Heads and Portraits", Gallery Nering + Stern, Berlin
2004 "over there, beyond ..., Pictures about Death", Galerie Ephemer, Berlin
2003-2004 Gallery Picture Worlds, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
2000-2001 "Flying", forum for young art berlin
1997 Author Gallery, Munich