ABOUT THE WORK

European Projections

London, Paris, Rome, Berlin – Sabine Wild toured Europe’s major cities armed with a camera, ready to transform monuments and skylines in her very special way. Her architectural images are works of art composed of structures and light. Wild captures the world in lines. Her typical vertical and horizontal hatching creates a flickering structure. A fascinating picture in which only hints of the underlying reality remain.

Thanks to Sabine Wild, the Römer in Frankfurt seems like a gothic convention of lights. At the same time, it is not a picture that gives off a feeling of medieval confinement; bright and fresh colours dominate. In the Sachenshäuser Ufer, the artist brings a natural element into her normally very abstract visual language. Arising from the “real” cityscape, the wintry boughs are naturally formed shapes that do not want to assimilate into the horizontal lines of the river or the verticals lines of the Frankfurt skyline. In this way, Wild’s art creates an exciting contrast between art and reality, between alienation and naturalness.

New York Projections and Asian Projections

In New York Projections and Asian Projections, Sabine Wild discovers the beauty of the night, which experiences a special appeal in cities full of artificial lights. The lit-up buildings, streetlights, and headlights serve as creative material for the artist’s urban compositions. Luminous batches of colour break through the graphical austerity that Wild otherwise consistently sticks to. The famous skylines of New York, Hong Kong, and Shanghai appear as if painted: Action Painting 2.0.

Sabine Wild has further developed her vertical-line visual language and discovered the digital means for creating her work. In post-processing, she designs her thrilling compositions – dark horizontal and vertical lines stand by powerful colours, painterly passages by graphical areas. As in painting, the energetic way the colour is applied determines the effect the image has. Sabine Wild reveals a new, impressive look at the world and its architecture.

Woods

In her Woods series, Sabine Wild takes her painterly means of expression into the abstract. While her architectural images give an impression of reality, here, she dissolves it into shapes and lines. The longer one’s gaze rests on the picture, the more the lines transform back into trees.

It is not sorcery but the unique art of Sabine Wild. The composition quotes her architectural work. Lakefronts and bogs lie peacefully in the horizontal lines. Tall trees rise into strong vertical lines. In between, their boughs refine the surrounding space. Sometimes Wild leaves the subtleties of tree bark plainly recognisable, and sometimes she obscures them with superimposed lines.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Sabine Wild subtly brings diverse structures and our big cities’ hidden dynamics to light. She elegantly and uniquely deconstructs urban architecture. Through the digital blurring, her photographic work takes on emphatic aspects of painting. This new art form, which Wild unquestionably created, is most clearly recognisable in her Woods series, in which she masterfully employs gestural painting and artistic photography. Born in Italy in 1962, the artist now lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

TECHNIQUE

Dissolving fixed visual structures

In her work, Sabine Wild captures landscapes and architecture in patterns of lines, shapes, and colours. She translates the swift movements and fast pace of the cities into pictures that can be read in a second. Her photographs settle into the realm somewhere between mirage and reality.

Atmospheric images

The forest compositions almost seem like an alternative draft of the urban works. In different levels of abstraction, she captures the moods of the seasons: the stillness of a winter day between the thin trunks, or the spring green, next to which those out for a stroll appear like dabs of colour. That which Sabine Wild develops through formal resolutions and impressionistic dissolutions is emotional and intoxicating.

1962	Born in Padua, Italy
1985-1990	Studied Germanic Studies, Linguistics, and Spanish in Bielefeld, Münster, Cologne, and Berlin
1990	MA from the Technical University of Berlin
2005-Present	Member of the New Society for Visual Arts (NGBK)
2006	Co-founder of Galerie en passant in Berlin
2007-Present	Visual Arts Advisor for the Gemeinschaft der Künstlerinnen und Kunstförderinnen e.V. (Association of Artists and Art Patrons) (GEDOK)
2008	Member of neunplus, a photographers’ collective for the advancement of auteur photography
2008	Founded the Kulturrundgang Südwestpassage with Susanne Wehr in Berlin
2009	Founded the Scharli Balllon artist’s group with Christina Marotzke and Andrea-Katharina Schraepler
	Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Персональные выставки (избранное)

2015	Architektour, GASAG Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany
2014	Megacities – Fotografien von Sabine Wild, Haus der Architekten, Düsseldorf, Germany
2012	Ausstellungszyklus Dresden: Contemporary. Landscapes, Art Corporates, Galerie Coselpalais, Dresden, Germany
2011	Urban Structures, Galerie Meisterschüler, Berlin, Germany
	Rasante Städte, Art Society of Tauberbischhofsheim, Germany
2010	Rauschen, Galerie Dengler und Dengler, Stuttgart, Germany
	Stuttgart, Galerie Dengler und Dengler, Stuttgart, Germany
2008	Sightseeing, Galerie Dengler und Dengler, Stuttgart, Germany
	Aufriss, Galerie en passant, Berlin, Germany
	Vertikale, ARD-Hauptstadtstudio, Berlin, Germany
	Freizeitarchitektur in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Haus der Architekten, Düsseldorf, Germany
2007	Fragile Welten, Galerie en passant, Berlin, Germany
2006	Suppenküche, Fenster 61, Berlin, Germany
2005	Rostige Aussichten, Federal Chamber of Architects, Berlin, Germany

Групповые выставки (избранное)

2015	Linienstrasse, Galerie en passant in der MILA-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
	Resonance, Mr. Big International Art Center, Chengdu, China
	Let Art Talk II, Mr. Big International Art Center, Chengdu, China
	Photoweekend Düsseldorf 2015, Galerie Petra Nostheyde-Eycke, Düsseldorf, Germany
2014	Let Art Talk I, Mr. Big International Art Center, Chengdu, China
	Art Shoes – Shoes in Contemporary Art, Galerie Petra Nostheide-Eycke, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013	Konstantin Schneider – In Kunstkontakter We Trust, RAR Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2012	Kaffee Konstantin – Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Kapital, Michaela Helfrich Galerie, Berlin, Germany
	X-City, Matthias Hagemann und Sabine Wild, EMG-Art Guangzhou, China
	Nature! The Mirror of Human Existence, Fotofestival Seoul, South Korea
	Fremdsehen, Galerie en passant, Berlin, Germany
	Those were the days, EMG-Art, Beijing, China
	Schwarz, Galerie Dengler und Dengler, Stuttgart, Germany
2011	Menschenskinder - Wunder bei Walz, Galerie Fasanen37, Berlin, Germany
	Shadows of the Bright, Berlin Art Projects, Germany
	Kälte, Galerie Dengler und Dengler, Stuttgart, Germany
	Naked, Galerie en passant, Berlin, Germany
2010	European Month of Photography, Galerie en passant, Berlin, Germany
	50 Jahre GEDOK Berlin 1960-2010, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2009	Zwölf 2009, Galerie en passant, Berlin, Germany
	Action Painting Today, Galerie Dengler und Dengler, Stuttgart, Germany
	Kunst im ARD-Hauptstadtstudio 2003-2009, Berlin, Germany
2008	3rd European Month of Photography, Berlin, Germany
	Salz + 16 Lösungen, Villa Kobe, Halle, Germany
2007	Kleine Heimat - Kleine Fluchten, Verborgenes Museum, Berlin, Germany
	Große Kunstausstellung, Halle, Germany
	8. Klasse Meisterschueler: Paare, Galerie Meisterschüler, Berlin, Germany
2006	A 100, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Germany
	Dialog Analog Digital - Synopse 06, Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin, Germany

www.kunstwild.de
www.galerie-enpassant.de
www.denglerunddengler.de

Книги/Каталоги (избранное)

Creative Germany. Bettina Schmiegelt, Cologne London New York, 2009.