Tina Oelker

Von Hasen und Göttern / 20 Years of Hares and Gods

Das tierisch Göttliche / English below*

Der Bildband von Tina Oelker behandelt die von ihr kreierten Kunstwerke der letzten 20 Jahre, die sich den Thematiken Feldhase, der griechischer Mythologie und unserer heutigen Gesellschaft widmen. Wie sie auf den Hasen kam und welche Verbindung zwischen dem Tier und den Göttern besteht, wird in diesem Projekt zum Vorschein kommen. 2001 taucht das Motiv des Feldhasen in Oelkers Arbeit zum ersten Mal auf und wird im Laufe der Zeit zu einem Gesamtkunstwerk. In diesem spannenden 320 Seiten langem Bildband stellt Tina Oelker Ihnen ihren Kunstkosmos vor: Hasenmanufaktur, Schützenfest, Jagd, Lyrik, Zeichnungen, Fotos, Collagen, Abbildungen ihrer Malerei und vieles anderes kann vom Leser betrachtet, hinterfragt, gejagt und entdeckt werden. Der Hase bleibt dabei „der springende Punkt“ und ist nicht ohne Grund ein Symbol für Freiheit, Fruchtbarkeit und im besonderen den Wandel. Er ist beispielsweise das Attribut der Aphrodite und als dreifaches Hasenbild Symbol des Hermaphroditos, dem Sohn der Liebesgöttin und dem Götterboten Hermes. In der östlichen Kultur erzählt man sich, wie er sich selbst dem Mond opfert, um dort mit einem Mörser das Elixier der Unsterblichkeit zu mixen.

Tina Oelker, geb. in Hamm-Westf am 7. Dezember 1973, lebt und arbeitet seit 1995 in Hamburg.

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The animal divine

The book by Hamburg based artist Tina Oelker deals with the works of art she has created over the last 20 years, which are dedicated to the themes of hares, Greeke mythology and our contemporary society. How she came upon the hare and the connection between the animal and the gods will be revealed in this project. In 2001 the motif of the brown hare appeared for the first time in Oelker´s work and has manifested itself over the years as a total work of art. In this exciting 320 pages art book Tina introduces you to her artistic cosmos: Hare-manufacture, hunting, poetry, drawings, collages, illustrations of her paintings and much more can be viewed, questioned, hunted, discovered and received by the reader. The hare remains „the crux of the matter“ and is not without reason a symbol of freedom, fertility and in particular of change. For example, it is the attribute of Aphrodite and, as a triple hare image, the symbol of Hermaphroditos, the son of the goddess of love, and Hermes, the messenger of the gods. Eastern culture tells how he sacrificed himself to the moon to mix the elixir of immortality with a mortar.

Tina Oelker, born in Hamm-Wesphalia, Dec. 7th, 1973, lives and works in Hamburg since 1995.
In 1989 Tina takes lessons in modern painting in her hometown of Hamm-Westphalia and shortly thereafter works with an Italian avant-gardist in Portofino. She then studied illustration, painting and design in New York and Hamburg. During her studies she opens her first producer gallery "Durchgang" Milchstrasse 21 A in Hamburg and graduates in 2004 with the motif of the brown hare. The hare becomes her oeuvre in 2007 and publicly accessible in 2010 - 2015 in the Hasenmanufaktur Hamburg at the port of Hamburg. Hafentor7 is her second producer gallery, which celebrates with the Schützenfest-Reloaded shortly before the demolition of the house the crowning conclusion. Tina Oelker then devotes herself to poetry and abstraction and publishes Das Leporello in 2016. Since the end of 2017, Oelker has regularly invited visitors to the studio for social evenings, where the visitors themselves get into action with the art and become part of the game. In 2018, the first Magazineforthearts follows, in that she bundles and further explores content both pictorially and verbally. In 2019, the second Magazineforthearts N° 01,235 and the abstract series 25 Colours Stockholm will be published. In 2020, Tina Oelker pulls the hare out of the hat again and combines it with her overall work of the last 20 years in the form of an art picture book Of Hares and Gods.

What is it about your studio space that inspires you?

Organized in the center of St. Pauli

What sounds, scents and sights do you encounter while in your studio?

The smell of fresh oil color with hints of turpentine and fresh espresso

What is your favourite material to work with? How has your use of it evolved throughout your practice?

Oilcolour

What themes do you pursue?

The natural interplay between male and female / The hare as motive and symbol for this very union

What advice has had the biggest impact on your career?

be yourself

If you could install your art absolutely anywhere, where would that be?

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

If you could only have one piece of art in your life, what would it be?

Lass mal den Affen, der geht!

If you weren´t an artist, what would you be doing?

Psychology

What are your favourite places besides your studio?

Wherever I can ride my racing bike

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