Petra Lottje

A quirky beep while swiping the card through an ageing machine and we enter it: a microcosm full of stories, personal destinies, interpersonal relationships and emotions - a department store. With her latest works, Petra Lottje presents us an artistically condensed personal view of a place steeped in tradition that symbolizes the changes in our society. With dynamic strokes, she creates individual portraits, group constellations and atmospherically charged places of action, which as key moments can shed light on our everyday coexistence, our working and living realities. By pausing to look at what is visible on the outside, Petra Lottje visualizes individual inner worlds and possible states of our community on the basis of the smallest social units.

PETRA LOTTJE was born in 1973 in Rheda-Wiedenbrück (NRW) and lives in Berlin. After completing her intermediate diploma in social work, she began studying fine art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig - with interim stays in Canada and the USA. After graduating in 2005, Petra Lottje was a master student of Professor J. Armleder. For her video works, one-line drawings and large-format paper collages, the artist has not only received countless scholarships and international attention, but also prizes, nominations and other awards. Her works are part of public and private collections and are regularly presented in exhibitions, most recently at the Centre for Contemporary Art (ZAK) at the Zitadelle Spandau, the Horst Janssen Museum in Oldenburg, the Kunsthaus Potsdam (solo) and the Kunstverein Allgemeiner Konsumverein Braunschweig (solo).

ARTIST TALK: Wednesday, September 4, 2024 from 6:30 pm