Corinne Wasmuht


Corinne Wasmuht is a German visual artist. She is currently based in Berlin.

Early life and education

Wasmuht was born in 1964 in Dortmund, Germany. From 1983-1992 she studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Career

Wasmuht's work deals with issues such as globalization, economic crisis, the proliferation of technology, and modern warfare. She makes paintings in oil paint on wooden boards, using many coats of varnish to add to the brightness of the colours. Her images consist of layered fictional environments that reference abstract painting. Wasmuht paints all elements of her complexly layered and graphic paintings entirely by hand.
Of her Bibliotheque/CDG-BSL, Peter Plagens said: "As is often the case, a single work can represent the thrust of a show. Here it’s Corinne Wasmuht’s enormous triptych... It’s a daunting painting... Its wildly varying scale and institutional glare are supposed to say something, one assumes, about the socially, politically and culturally overwhelmed and unmoored state in which we currently exist."

Select exhibitions

1999
2001
2003
2004
2005
2008
2010
2011
2014
2015
2016
2017