Sabine Funke


Sabine Funke is a German painter who lives and works since 1987 in Karlsruhe.

Biography

Funke studied art history in Bochum, Germany free graphics at the University of Essen Folkwang University and painting as well as art theory at Academy of Fine Arts Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. She graduated as a Master student under the painter. In 1985, she received a scholarship from the Arts Foundation of Baden-Württemberg. In 1995, she won the prize for painting of the and a grant from the Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo in Olevano Romano. In 2001, she received a scholarship from the :de:Stiftung Kulturfonds der neuen Bundesländer|Foundation Cultural Fund Berlin, Ahrenshoop and in 2005 she was awarded with the :de:Hanna-Nagel-Preis|Hanna Nagel Prize.
Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions among others at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Mannheim, in the Orangerie at the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, the shown in Bottrop, the, and at the .
The artist is concerned with the interaction of colour and can be situated in the tradition of colour field painting. She paints using highly diluted acrylic paints on wooden panels and since 2018 on canvas. Since 1999, she also creates large format colour field compositions directly on interior walls. Her mural paintings focus in particular on the spatial effect of the colours thereby the colour fields create a deep dialogue with the architecture and de-materialise the space.

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Solo exhibitions