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Christiane Bergelt

Christiane Bergelt

Chorin/ Germany

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Painting • Born in Marienberg • Studied at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, London/ AdBK Nürnberg

Published  08/01/2018   |   Updated  03/07/2023

tracksuit pioneer

In her exhibition, Christiane Bergelt explores a personal connection to Bernau: In 1972, her father was stationed in Bernau as a construction pioneer of the National People‘s Army (NVA) of the GDR.

From their time in service, many former NVA soldiers - including Christiane Bergelt‘s father - remember the famous „sausage cans“ from Weinböhla. The tins were the main dish of field food, because the military emergency rations...

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In her exhibition, Christiane Bergelt explores a personal connection to Bernau: In 1972, her father was stationed in Bernau as a construction pioneer of the National People‘s Army (NVA) of the GDR.

From their time in service, many former NVA soldiers - including Christiane Bergelt‘s father - remember the famous „sausage cans“ from Weinböhla. The tins were the main dish of field food, because the military emergency rations included a meal of tinned meat, tinned bread and tinned biscuits. Canned meat was also available to the general population in a variety of flavours: Jagdwurst, Landleberwurst, Rotwurst, Kammfleischwurst, Schmalzfleisch, chicken in its own juice and even hare‘s back with bone.

Then as now, the contents of such preserves smell intense and spicy, and the pre-cooked, heavily processed meat
shimmers in the can, often surrounded by fat and jelly, juicy or pale in various shades of brown and red. Although the factory in Weinböhla has closed down in the meantime, industrially prepared meat and sausage products are still widespread and can be found on every supermarket shelf.

In general, eating meat is an important social issue at the moment. Christiane Bergelt examines it poetically, sensitively and humorously: she has cut fresh cold cuts from the refrigerated counter geometrically and placed them between two panes of glass like a microscopic specimen. The resulting objects can now be seen in the gallery, where they
sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly start to grow mouldy.

The artist‘s paintings also depict industrially produced meat and sausage products. An oversized mortadella with
pistachios looks like a portrait of cold cuts between the glass panes. In other, smaller pictures, the structures of the organic masses appear in abstract colours, so that it is no longer recognisable what the motif actually is. Here the realistic is lost and the blurred gains the upper hand over the canvas in the form of patterns, swathes and scribbles.

In so many ways, Christiane Bergelt‘s works at Galerie Bernau also bear witness to the fact that the attempt to remember correctly or to reliably reproduce a memory must end in diffusion, because no one is ever able to reproduce absolute truth.

Marie Egger


Christiane Bergelt (*1982 in Marienberg) lebt in Chorin und arbeitet in Angermünde.
Sie erhielt ihren M.A. in Freier Kunst und Malerei am Chelsea College of Art in London, gefördert durch ein Stipendium der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Davor studierte sie Freie Malerei an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg.

Mit Stipendien des DAAD und des Landes Brandenburg nahm Bergelt Arbeitsaufenthalte in Island und auf Schloss Wiepersdorf wahr. 2017 wurde ihr der Nachwuchsförderpreis für Bildende Kunst und 2020 das Arbeitsstipendium des Landes Brandenburg verliehen.



Fotos: Alena Schmick

Christiane Bergelt
Kidney Spiegelung

Kidney Spiegelung

tracksuit, frattaglie, 2023, Oil on cotton, 250 x 200 cm

tracksuit, frattaglie, 2023, Oil on cotton, 250 x 200 cm

schauen, 2023, Oil on cotton, 35 x 50 cm

schauen, 2023, Oil on cotton, 35 x 50 cm

Wursplatte Spiegelung

Wursplatte Spiegelung

aufwärts neu, blau,blau und aufwärts, rot weiß, 2023, Oil on cotton, je 55 x 45 cm

aufwärts neu, blau,blau und aufwärts, rot weiß, 2023, Oil on cotton, je 55 x 45 cm

brät und sky, 2023, Oil on cotton, 55 x 45 cm u. 30 x 25 cm

brät und sky, 2023, Oil on cotton, 55 x 45 cm u. 30 x 25 cm

Fleischtriangel und filet, 2023, Oil on cotton, 50 x 35 cm u. 55 x 45 cm

Fleischtriangel und filet, 2023, Oil on cotton, 50 x 35 cm u. 55 x 45 cm

Mortadella grande, 2023, 30 x 40 cm, Detail

Mortadella grande, 2023, 30 x 40 cm, Detail

Wurstplatte - Mortadella, Landschinken, Salami, Bresaola, Blutwurst

Wurstplatte - Mortadella, Landschinken, Salami, Bresaola, Blutwurst

pioneer, mimetizzazione quadrupla, 2023, Oil on cotton, 250 x 200 cm

pioneer, mimetizzazione quadrupla, 2023, Oil on cotton, 250 x 200 cm

flotarn, 2023, Oil on cotton, 150 x 145 cm

flotarn, 2023, Oil on cotton, 150 x 145 cm

Exhibiton view

Exhibiton view

see something, see nothing

see something, see nothing


EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

2023

tracksuit pioneer, Galerie Bernau

2020

the hands delight to trace, Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz

share a mess, BLMK, Packhof, Frankfurt/ Oder

GROUP

2021

Das ist der Regen. Der Regen regnet., A&O Kunsthalle, Leipzig,

2019

Drei Maler in Berlin, BERGELT FLIERL KUTZNER, Galerie Parterre, Berlin

2018

As I took her arm she stared through my face at the dark branches of the trees over my head...., curated by Michael Lawton, Yellow, Varese, Italy

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PUBLICATIONS

AWARDS

2022 Neustart Kultur Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds

2020 Arbeitstipendium Land Brandenburg

2017 Nachwuchsförderpreis Bildende Kunst, Land Brandenburg

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EDUCATION (detailed)

2003-2009 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg

2006 Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari

2009-2010 Chelsea College of Arts and Design, London

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triangolo rosa | Christiane Bergelt | available artwork

Christiane Bergelt

triangolo rosa, 2014

40,0 x 55,0 x 4,0 cm | 15,7 x 21,7 x 1,6 inch

3.000,00 € excl. VAT

fast nichts zu sehen #4 | Christiane Bergelt | available artwork

Christiane Bergelt

fast nichts zu sehen #4, 2013

39,5 x 34,0 cm | 15,6 x 13,4 inch

1.900,00 € excl. VAT

fast nichts zu sehen #3 | Christiane Bergelt | available artwork

Christiane Bergelt

fast nichts zu sehen #3, 2021

48,0 x 41,5 cm | 18,9 x 16,3 inch

1.900,00 € excl. VAT

dover lover | Christiane Bergelt | available artwork

Christiane Bergelt

dover lover, 2018

50,0 x 45,0 x 4,0 cm | 19,7 x 17,7 x 1,6 inch

2.800,00 € excl. VAT

ultra mere 5 | Christiane Bergelt | available artwork

Christiane Bergelt

ultra mere 5, 2017

30,0 x 35,0 x 2,0 cm | 11,8 x 13,8 x 0,8 inch

1.500,00 € excl. VAT

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