short biography
Anna Huxel (geb. 1968 in Worms/Deutschland) schloss 2014 ihr Studium an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart mit Diplom ab. 2016 erreichte sie den Abschluss als Meisterschülerin im Weißenhof - Programm der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. 2015 war sie Gastdozentin an der Freien Akademie Mannheim.
email:
Huxel@yahoo.com
websites:
- Hold On, Gruppenausstellung Q-Galerie Schorndorf
- Alles Bio / HOLD ON / Anna Huxel
- Anna Huxel, Soloausstellung Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden
instagram:
@annahuxel
collection/s
2020
2018 / 2019
2016 / 2017
Statement
For me, the language of painting takes place on several levels: At the basis is a thought, which I transform into a picture composition and determine the colour concept. On the canvas, a basic framework is thus created, which is necessary for the composition of the picture in a format of two by two meters. In this setup, I work with different painting styles. To avoid illustrating the idea, I work without a template and look for my cyphers, which move between the representational and the abstract. This leads to the development of a new pictorial language, which has increasingly detached itself from the original idea. It continues in a new world of images (series). During reflection, texts are developed for the pictures, showing a concept. Through this approach, I explore the medium of painting. The artwork carries the concept within itself. It is revealed through the aesthetic experience of painting. I consciously deal with these processes and analyse my paintings accordingly. Because of the self-reflection, it is no longer necessary to paint informally. Unconscious parts may be integrated consciously into the picture.
The chalk writing on the slate serves as a metaphor for the word in the composition of the picture. Thus I was able to connect painting with writing on the canvas. However, the typeface does not define the content level. I place the content of my paintings in a biblical context. The question, "How does the word become flesh", from John 1:14 accompanies me in my artistic work. I aim to transfer the psychological level in connection with the spiritual level into an organic transformation. These two aspects, which are condensed in the painting, through the conscious and unconscious level, allow the spiritual and thus a reshaping emerges.
Anna Huxel
Exposé
Theoretical Background and Painting
The foundation of my thinking is the biblical understanding that man is separated into
mind, body and soul, creating a whole human being as these parts interact with each other.
The mind is always in connection to God, an objectivity infusing the real world. The soul
on the other hand corresponds with our reality, as it is shaped by what happened in our
past. Rudolf Dreikurs says in his book “Grundbegriffe der Individualpsychologie nach Alfred
Adler” that a child jumps to conclusions itself and thereby chooses a certain lifestyle
guaranteeing him or her a safe spot in society. These decisions that are made subconsciously
thereby have a certain motivation. If this subconsciously created finality emerges
in the consciousness, it becomes irreversible. This makes it possible to set new goals
which are oriented on an equal way of belonging in society. These new found convictions
then influence our internal perception and thereby cause a new and different interpretation
of reality. The body then is a physical substance that is concrete and changes. It visualises
the other two immaterial aspects. In this context, Sanders4 questions: How realistic was
Paulus’ belief in a transformation in the present? These questions are highly demanding
because they try to analyse someone’s way of thinking that is from another time period.
Nowadays, we strongly separate the body from anything spiritual. This border is almost
understood as a natural order. It is either the body that changes, which we can see with
our own eyes, or our way of thinking, our goals in life, change. Change is thereby either
psychological or physiological.
The question now would be in how far this affects my work and how I translate them into
art.
My paintings implicate a juxtaposition of my inner reality with an objective reality on the
outside. In this process, I engage with texts from the Bible, which then create an image
that I as an artist am trying to express in my own way of painting. The different aspects
thereby come together, and a new layer is created that separates itself from the biblical
starting point. My interior reality blends with the biblical elements, and the paintings become
autonomous. As a good example, look at the painting “Webmeister” painted in 2016.
I started my process with the incarnation of the godly word into flesh, which is expressed in
the painting by adding fluorescent pigments to the fleshy colours. A book functions as the
background as a symbol for words and language. This book is then “overcoloured” by the
aforementioned fluorescent-flesh-colours. During the process of painting the content, I was
expressing changed: The outside represented in the digital world incarnates into the flesh
and the biblical motive thereby makes a connection to our present. As this process shows,
I am not creating paintings showing biblical scenes, but they are part of the process of
creating my painting.
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4 Paulus, Eine Einführung, E.P.Sanders, Reclam S.93
The central question of my work is: “How does word turn into flesh?” In John 1,14 it says:
“And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--
such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.“
This scene describes the incarnation of Jesus. In John 17,22 Jesus prays for his disciples:
“And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one
even as we are one.” How does this incarnation work? I want to find out what happens
during this process.
This “unification” is impossible to grasp in a theoretical discourse, which is why I am aiming
for an examination in the form of painting. While painting, an organic transformation
takes place, which arises from the juxtaposition of the psychological and a divine reality.
By visualising the subconscious in the context of painting, mercy can be incarnated into
the soul, resulting in the formation of an identity, coming into unison with the original identity, which is now not solely coined by a psychological-interior reality. This transformation
then has to happen on the level of painting.
I would like to argue that my art tries to look for proof of the existence of God, but this is
where belief has its limits because belief withdraws itself from our reason. Paul’s letters
offer a solution that I would like to come close to by secondary literature. Paulus discourse
in Romans 7,15 about the discussion of mind and body comes to the following conclusion:
“And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do
not, but what I have hate for, that I do.” This gap shows that the “unification” does not solely
derive from reason. Through painting, this cognitive process shall be abstracted and
thereby reveal this given relation.
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17. Oct 15. NovCordula Güdemann & 22 Studenten*innen aus 25 Jahren Akademie Galerie Schloss Mochental, Ehingen
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02. Oct 14. NovAnna Huxel “The Broken Key” Galerie Oberlichtsaal, Sindelfingen
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23. Sep 29. OctPlugIn Vertretung des Landes Baden-Württemberg beim Bund, Berlin
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28. Jun 28. Augwas meinen Sie, Frau Hoffmann? Galerie ABTart, Stuttgart
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19. Jun 13. SepDie unsichtbare Frau BBK Schwaben-Nord und Augsburg
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01. Dec 19. Apr 2020Netzwerkerinnen der Moderne – 100 Jahre Frauenkunststudium Städtische Galerie Böblingen
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08. Nov 17. Jan 2020ODYSSEE. 28. Mainzer Kunstpreis Eisenturm 2019 Kunstverein Eisenturm Mainz
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25. Aug 22. SepKönnte aber doch Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
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08. Jun 03. AugAnna Huxel, Malerei und Uli Gsell, Steinskulpturen Galerie Peregrinus, Scheidegg
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08. Mar 10. MarKünstlermesse im Haus der Wirtschaft 2019 BBK Württemberg, Stuttgart
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30. Nov 28. DecKunstmarkt '18 Kunsthalle Ravensburg
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23. Nov 25. Nov14. Kunstwochenende in der Popup-Galerie Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart
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15. Oct 26. Feb 2019Fluchtpunkt. Anna Huxel Kunsthaus Brandner, Weil der Stadt
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21. Jan 25. FebINTERZELLULÄR. Nina Joanna Bergold, Anna Huxel Hohenwart Forum, Pforzheim
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26. Aug 24. SepPräsenz, Kritik, Utopie Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
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04. Nov 13. NovPRACTICE PROCESS PROGRESS Villa Merkel + Bahnwärterhaus | Galerien der Stadt Esslingen
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07. Jun 02. AugDie Welt kommt nach Hause - Klasse Cordula Güdemann Hohenloher Kunstverein, Langenburg
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17. Apr 20. Mayuntier - Studenten der Klasse Cordula Güdemann Galerie Peter Tedden, Düsseldorf
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17. Sep 06. Jan 2013Heimatrand - Klasse Cordula Güdemann Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart