I was born in 1948 in Wiedenbrück, Gemany.
Since 1969  I'm married with the graphic designer Karl-Ludwig Kuhlmann.
We live and work in Verl, Germany.

After leaving school in 1967 with a secondary degree I concluded a professional education as a photographer and graphic designer.
At first I was an employee of Bertelsmann publishing house and worked some years in the publicity department of the Nobilia factory, a furniture and kitchens producer. Since 1976 I have been working as a freelancer for several publicity agencies and advertising departments and shaped every kind of publicity resources, like prospects, mailings, advertisements and product designs. As an example I cared for a club-journal for Radio Télé Luxemburg (RTL) for several years.

In 1994 I discovered the computer - which had been that far only a working tool, as my personal artistic medium. I gained the necessary knowledge for it in a self taught manner. Between 1994 and 2002 I extended my activities on three fields:

1. The graphic work with own photos
Digitally edited photo-collages of  flowers and landscapes, frequently completed with paintings, expressing the connection between the perceptible picture and imagination. Most of them have been awarded 196/97 in the Corel World Design Contest.

2. The work with 3D-programs
3D-illustrations and landscapes in a surrealistic manner also digitally edited and supplemented with paintings.

3. Experimental and abstract works
Since beginning to use the computer as a personal artistic tool in 1994 I tended more and more towards abstraction. Especially the game with geometric forms and the research into the visual and emotional possibilities of several graphic methods are of great interest for me. i.g. to work with fractals which are always the visualized solution of a complex mathematical problem - but viewed in isolation of mathematical questions and contents they are graphic patterns as a snapshot of the infinity. Drawing by algorithmus depends widely on coincidence. However generating and selecting of dynamic forms, their editing and coloring, is based on what psychologists may call "subjective perception". Mathematical art is - although it seems to be a contradiction in terms - a very intuitive and individual kind of work.

My subjects are human relations as well as personal and social conditions.

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Solo-Exhibitions:

April 10 - May 31, 2002
Wiedenhoefer & Kuch
Dr.-Rudolf-Schieber-Str.2
73 463 Westhausen
GERMANY

June 5 - 28, 2002
DLZ-Dieter Weiss
Eitswiesen Str.8
73 092 Heiningen
GERMANY

Group Exhibitions

October 8th, 1996
Corel-Center
Ottawa, Canada

August 31rst - 6th, 2001
Museo de Arte del INBA
Juárez, México
FacingFaces-Project

December 7th - 16th, 2001
Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
3. Biennale dell’Arte Contemporanea

January 4th - 25th, 2002
East Hawai’i Cultural Center
Hilo, Hawaii, USA
2002 International Cyberart Exhibition

 

February 1rst - 20th 2003

East Hawai'i Cultural Center

Hilo, Hawaii, USA

2003 International Cyberart Exhibition

 

March 2003

Academy Gallery University

of Tasmania Launceston, Australia

IDAA Exhibition

 

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