Andrea Baumann
Andrea Baumann lives and works in Tyrol, in the mountains ovelooking Innsbruck, an almost paradisiacal place.
She completed her apprenticeship as a ceramist in Landshut, opened her first studio in Freiburg, studied fine art ceramics with Johannes Gebhardt and experimental painting with Renate Anger in Kiel. Later, during a one-year study trip to Reykjavik, she developed her first artistic interventions, videos and photos with great success.
She studied visual design and therapy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Since 2003 she has been running her studio again working in porcelain.
She colours porcelain from Limoges in France, white, light, translucent, and, with her hands, creates a variety of shapes ranging from cylinders, spheres and hemispheres to plates, cups, bowls and platters, even teapots. Her tools are her hands, her sensory organs, which realize ideas of form, which with their organic presence are often reminiscent of delicate, fragile flowers.
For Baumann, building her vessels seems to be an activity with external and internal movement. Marks of her work process define the grace of the vessels, stable and fragile, and the interplay of material aesthetics, liveliness, lightness, light and colour elevates them to an energy-charged overall picture.
(Christoph Hasenberg)