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2 3 / / Past Present 2015 (165 x 280 cm / 65” x 110.25”)
2003
• Vertraute Fremde, G.B. Kunst Trier e.V., Germany. /S
• Outdoor-In", Kunsthalle Koblenz, Germany /S
• Ort & Schatten, Kunsthalle Koblenz, Germany /S
• Paisajes Tropicales", Fabien Fryns Gallery, Marbella, Spain (Catalogues) /E
1999
Andrea C. Hoffer is represented by Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie. and has exhibited extensively in Germany and Europe participating in both solo and group exhibitions since 1994. This is Hoffer’s second solo exhibition in Trinidad.
• La Joie de Vivre", Galerie Beck & Eggeling, L'Ambassade, St. Tropez, France /G
• Landschaften", Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Rottach-Egern, Germany /S
2012
• Surroundings, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany (Catalogues) /S
2001
• At noon, Solinger Kunstverein S
• An den Rändern des Raumes, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany /S
• Accrochage", Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany /G
2000
• Düsseldorfer Kunstmarkt, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Düsseldorf, Germany /G
• Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany /S
Artist's BiogrAPhy
• Welten, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany /S
• Landscape" Kunsthalle Koblenz, Germany /S
• In Every Dreamhome A Heartbreak - (Ir) realle Raumwelten in der Malerei" Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany /G
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• Traveller, Kunstverein Siegene.V. - Galerie S, Germany /S
• Art Fair-Kunstrai, Amsterdam, Netherlands /S
• West Indies", Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Düsseldorf, Germany (Catalogues) /S
• HEPP 8", Galerie Patricia Ferdinand-Ude, Gelsenkirchen, Germany (Catalogues) /G
• Raum, Kunstverein Würzburg, Germany . /S 2010
Andrea C. Hoffer has been living and working between Tobago and Germany since 1998. German born Hoffer studied Art at the Academy of Art Dusseldorf as a student of A.R Penk and graduated with her masters in painting.
• Die Landschaft in der Kunst vom Impressionismus bis zur Gegenwart" Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., EssenDeutsche Bank, Gelsenkirchen, Germany /G
1998
2009
2013
Komponenten der Wirklichkeit, Galerie Kiki Maier-Hahn Düsseldorf, Germany /S
foreign spaces + familiar places, galerie carla reul bonn e
2007
Parish Artists in Residence Program, Pointe a Pierre, Trinidad, W.I. /G
• Col-Iectiva", Andreas Grimm, Agencia de Arte y Galeria, Palma de Mallorca, Spain /G
• Moving spaces, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany /S
Andreas Grimm, Agencia de Arte y Galeria, Palma de Mallorca, Spain /S Gallery 1.2.3.4, Port of Spain, Trinidad, W. I. /E
2011
2014
• West Indies II", Kunsthalle Koblenz, Germany (Catalogues) /S
• 10x10x10 - Bilder und Objekte", Kunstverein Siegen e.V., Germany /G
• Scenery, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany /S 2002
• onextwo, National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. /G
2006
2005
• Gleiche Augenhöhe, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany /G
Shifting Nature, cundus AG Duisburg, in cooperation with Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany /S
(n’ßija)The Hebrew word for journey contains the word for miracle (neß) and the verb (leßija) in its designation
for helping, supporting, easing. If we now conjugate the female form of the word in the preterit for the third-person singular (ßijah) the image of the miraculous appears, which generally has religious correlations. A journey may facilitate or aid a miracle. The concept of pilgrimage almost cries out to be heard here. As we know, numerous artists have travelled in order to discover new image motifs and solutions. Paul Gauguin, Max Slevogt and Paul Klee journeyed to the South Seas and Africa to make these types of discoveries. To what extent do artists find reality in their own pictorial realities?
All forms of familiar legality seem to have been revoked in an instant. To be in a state of pending, of the in-between, because one is travelling also provides a great deal of unfettered leeway. In the 19th century it was photo exposure time that prevented us from seeing the movements of the human body in architectural photography, because the human body moved through the photo detail. How can the passage of time, the simultaneity, be depicted in painting? But simultaneity also signifies the portrayal of events overlapping one another in a temporal or spatial setting. Departure and arrival are such events. Other synonyms include parting and beginning, omission and birth. In the Hebrew language the words for hall (‘olAm) and world (‘ulAm) form a rhyming couplet. The artistic style of Andrea C. Hoffer, created by her journeys between Europe and the Caribbean, seems to epitomise this meaning: Each picture is space and time, world and hall, in the spirit of the wall-less room that is time.
Frank Schablewski, Dusseldorf, April ANDrEA C. HOFFEr
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PICTurES OF A JOurNEy
The French word for journey “voyage” provides the basis for the homophone thought and wordplay “vois – age”, i.e. “age” or time. What happens when the journey (L. Iter) is repeated (L. Itero)? What happens in artistic terms when the passage of time is expressed in colour gradients... when the solidity of a place, a position, only becomes permeable, transparent by leaving that place in order to reach it again at another time? Is this an artistic motivation to avoid any opaque images?
This situation involves never staying in one place forever or even for a longer period, repeatedly interrupting any form of residency, always avoiding permanence, stability and structures. It means giving the memory time to fade by not visiting a place or by leaving it, not in order to elevate that place, but rather because the journey itself is more important. Nothing brings the familiar and the foreign into more abrupt contact than a journey to foreign lands, a foreign continent with a foreign language.
8 9 / / Dawn 2015 (40 x 35 cm / 15.75” x 13.75”) shifting Nature 1 (20.9x14.7cm / 8.2”x5.7” )tropen 1V 2012 Acrylic on paper (24 x17cm / 9.4”x6.7”) Zuhause 2015 (18cmx24cm / 7”x9.4”)Zweisamkeit 2015 (28 x 23 cm / 11” x 9”)
10 11 / / At Noon ii 2015 (28 x 22 cm / 11” x 8.6”) Winchester trace ii 2015 (39 x 30 cm / 15.4”x 12 “) Winchester trace i 2015 (45 x 35 cm / 17.75”x 13.75”) Journey 2015 (45 x 45 cm / 17.75”x 17.75”) Endlose Weite iV (36cm x 45cm / 14x17.5)
12 13 / / Boy at Buccoo (36cm x 45cm / 14”x17.5”) tropen V 2012 Acrylic on paper (24 x17cm / 9.4”x6.7”) tropen 11 2012 Acrylic on paper (24 x17cm / 9.4”x6.7”) Verttaute Fremde 2015 (24 x17cm / 9.4”x6.7”) At Noon i 2015 (25 x 19 cm / 9.75”x 7”172) shifting Nature (20.9x14.7cm / 8.2”x5.8” )
Weite 2015 (43 x 60 cm / 17” x 23.75”)
Moriah
2015 (140 x 115 cm / 55” x 45.25”)
Endlose
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traveller shop 2009 (175
16 17 / /
2009 (200
the x 165 cm / 69” x 65”)
space saver x 165 cm / 78.75” x 65”)
18 19 / / sweet home 2015 (120 x 85 cm / 47.25”x 33”) Queens hall 2009 (175 x 190 cm / 69” x 74.75”)
20 21 / / Welten 2011 (115 x 95 cm / 45.25 x 37.38”) Between time 2015 (140 x 170 cm / 55“ x 67 “)
22 23 / / inside-out 2015 (75 x 85 cm / 29.5”x 33”172) ornate iii 2006 (120 x 85 cm / 47.25”x 33.5”)
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