Christiane Grimm
（Germany, b. 1957)

Christiane Grimm has created colour and light spaces ever since the mid-1980s. A major focus of her researches is on colour itself, which she investigates in terms of its luminosity, its wide range of nuances, the ways they can be combined, and also their effect on the viewer.

  • Würth, Künzelsau Collection, Germany
  • Das kleine Museum, Weißenstadt, Germany
  • Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Waldenbuch, Germany

A trained architect and self-taught artist, she works with a wide range of colour materials, from oils and acrylics to pastels, and generally creates visual objects, architectural light sculptures, and boxes from Perspex, antique glass, and ribbed glass. The sensual effect conveyed by her works results from the varying interactions between the colours, the composition, the space, the material, and the lighting.

La vie secrète des couleurs｜2020｜Acrylic glass, paper and fan

Heidelberg, 2005

Heidelberg, 2005

Giessen, 2011

Christiane Grimm explores the phenomenon whereby a colour value is never absolute but may appear different in combination with other colours, and how colour perception is strongly influenced by the actual lighting situation and the material used as the colour medium. In her works, the milky ribbed glass refracts the incoming and reflected light, so that a large variety of hues light up. Through these refractions, the contours of the coloured forms seem to dissolve: the colour fields flow optically into one another and mingle, while the mirrors – in interaction with the surrounding space and the viewing angle – heighten not only the wealth of colours but also the kinetic effect.

Apart from the differing impressions of space created by the individual colours, the pictorial elements themselves appear through their arrangement to have distorted perspectives and a plastic form. The box has in fact a depth of just ten centimetres, but seems much deeper. Only once it has entered into a dialogue with a viewer in motion does it reveal the protean nature and beauty of its differentiated colour space. The work resists any unequivocal reception and opens up a magically enticing world of colour that invites us to linger and make new discoveries.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022  Gradient, Bluerider ART, Taipei
2021  Galerie liinde hollinger, Germany
2020 red transformation (S), Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart
2020 Melanges en couleurs – geheimnisvolle Lichträume (S), Galerie Corona Unger, Bremen
2020 Bildmaschinen,Galerie Klaus ,Braun,Stuttgart, Germany
2020 La Vie Secrète Des Couleurs,Galerie Linde Hollinger,Ladenburg,Ladenburg Germany
2019 Wort Form Licht, Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg, Germany
2019 Galerientage im Mannheimer Kunstverein, Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg, Germany
2019 Christiane Grimm – one artist show, Galerie Mariette Haas, Ingoldstadt, Germany
2018 Transformation, Bluerider ART, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Light Fusion, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München, Germany
2018 Werke aus dem Bestand der Galerie, Sonderausstellung Christiane Grimm, Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg, Germany
2017 Wandobjecten Expositie, Galerie Broft, Leerdam, The Netherlands
2016 Galerie Latzer, Kreuzlingen, Germany
2015 Wandobjekte im kleinen Format, Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
2015 Raum Konkret, Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg, Germany
2013 Geheimnisse der Wirklichkeit, Kunstverein Frankenthal, Frankenthal, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 COLOR … MOTION, mit Rosa M. Hessling und Barbara Rosengarth
2021 kuratiert von Veronika Rodenberg, Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld
2021 New Luxe,Bluerider ART,Shanghai,China
2021 Mental Space,Bluerider ART,Taipei,Taiwan
2021 Schwingung des LichtsHeitsch,GalleryMunich,Germany
2021 Made in Germany,Bluerider ART,Taipei,Taiwan
2020 Switch ON,Bluerider Art Gallery,Taipei,Taiwan
2019 Hue, Bluerider ART, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Uitnodiging Zomerexpositie, Broft Galleries, the Netherlands
2019 Hong Kong Spring, Bluerider ART, Hong Kong
2019 Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Linde Hollinger, Galerie Obrist, Karlsruhe, Germany
2019 5.internationaler andré evard preis
2019 kunsthalle messmer, Riegel, Germany
2019 HIGHLIGHTS, Galerie Heitsch, München, Germany
2018 weiss, Galerie Mariette Hass, Ingoldstadt, Germany
2018 Kunst in Tüten, Galerie Obrist, Essen, Germany
2018 Geometric and Kinetic, Nicholsen Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Deltabeben Regionale 2018, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2018 Autumn Hong Kong, Bluerider ART, Hong Kong
2018 Art Bodensee, Galerie Obrist, Essen, Germany
2018 Sommerlicht, Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg, Germany
2017 Frohes Neues, Galerie Mariette Haas, Ingoldstadt, Germany
2017 positions 2 invited by Dirk Salz, Thomas Deyle, Christiane Grimm, Pieter Obels, Oster & Koelze, Katja Pfeiffer, Alexander Voss, Galerie Obrist, Essen, Germany
2017 ROT KOMMT VOR ROT, Sammlungspräsentation der Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, MUSEUM RITTER, Waldenbuch, Germany
2016 Sonne – Konkrete Kunst in sonnigen Farben mit Arbeiten von Hellmut Bruch, Thomas Deyle, Rupprecht Geiger, Christiane Grimm und Giesela Hoffmann,
Galerie Mariette Haas, Ingolstadt, Germany
2016 Masters of Light, Jörg Heitsch Galerie, München, Germany
2016 4. Andre Evard Preis, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel, Germany
2015 Accrochage, Galerie P13, Heidelberg, Germany
2015 Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
2014 Weiss inspiriert, Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg, Germany
2014 Licht und Energie, Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg, Germany
2013 Art shoppen, Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg, Germany
2013 3. Andre Evard Preis, Messmer Foundation, Riegel, Germany
2011 Materials, Galerie P13, Heidelberg, Germany
2011 Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg, Germany

Collections

Das kleine Museum, Kultur auf der Peunt, Weißenstadt, Germany
Herbert-Weisenburger- Stiftung, Rastatt, Germany
Kirchengemeinde, Lützelsachsen / Weinheim, Germany
Kunstkommission Dossenheim, Dossenheim, Germany
Landratsamt Böblingen und Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Adrian Latzer Collection, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
Agathe and Maximilian Weishaupt Collection, München, Germany
Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Waldenbuch, Germany
Siegfried Grauwinkel Collection, Berlin, Germany
Würth, Künzelsau Collection, Germany
Stadt Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Christiane Grimm -geworfen, 2016

Cornelia Buder

geworfen, 2016
Mixed media, ribbed acrylic glass
100 x 100 x 10 cm

The Heidelberg-based artist Christiane Grimm has created colour and light spaces ever since the mid-1980s. A major focus of her researches is on colour itself, which she investigates in terms of its luminosity, its wide range of nuances, the ways they can be combined, and also their effect on the viewer.

A trained architect and self-taught artist, she works with a wide range of colour materials, from oils and acrylics to pastels, and generally creates visual objects, architectural light sculptures, and boxes from Perspex, antique glass, and ribbed gloss. The sensual effect conveyed by her works results from the varying interactions between the colours, the composition, the space, the material, and the lighting.

The box titled geworfen [thrown] contains coloured rectangles that appear to be floating in a diffuse, dark red space. Various shades of at times fluorescent orange and violet can be seen alternating with white and reflecting elements. Christiane Grimm explores the phenomenon whereby a colour value is never absolute but may appear different in combination with other colours, and how colour perception is strongly influenced by the actual lighting situation and the material used as the colour medium. In geworfen, the milky ribbed glass refrocts the incoming and reflected light, so that a large variety of hues light up. Through these refractions, the contours of the coloured forms seem to dissolve: the colour fields flow optically into one another and mingle, while the mirrors – in interaction with the surrounding space and the viewing angle – heighten not only the wealth of colours but also the kinetic effect.

Apart from the differing impressions of space created by the individual colours, the pictorial elements themselves appear through their arrangement to have distorted perspectives and a plastic form. The box has in fact a depth of just ten centimetres, but seems much deeper. Only once it has entered into a dialogue with a viewer in motion does it reveal the protean nature and beauty of its differentiated colour space. The work resists any unequivocal reception and opens up a magically enticing world of colour that invites us tothat linger and make new discoveries.

Translation: Malcolm Green

Colours are the joy of life

E. L. Kirchner

Christiane Grimm’s work as an artist is defined by colours and their reciprocal effects. Her pictorial concepts rupture the formal severity of geometric abstract art, which she completely bursts open and freely arranges in her most recent works. In spite of the diversity of their forms, she highlights the sensual aspect of colour in these compositions. When she aims at the dynamism of colour, this is directed towards a visual process. In her pictorial objects, she employs colour and form in such a way that their interpenetration generates a calculated and simultaneously vibrant pictorial world. They are poetic formations made up of light, floating planes, which are also achromatic on very rare occasions. By employing ribbed acrylic glass, Grimm achieves optical effects that run counter to an unambiguous perception of space. The colours’ refraction in the fine lines of the ribbed glass, which is positioned with intervening spaces, imbues her works with an emphatically painterly character, and they seem less like an assemblage of different materials. The artist composes the colours as converging or diverging simultaneous contrasts. Depending on the selection and positioning of colours, their relationship to one another is either complementary or non-complementary. The intuitively established chromatic ‘chords’ manifest themselves to viewers as consonant or dissonant. This simultaneous interplay of colours remains in motion and its aim is the viewer’s attentive and active gaze. Another reason why Grimm’s works cannot be taken in at a glance is the fact that light and the directing of light is an essential element of her pictorial objects. She assembles extremely diverse materials, such as sheets of paper dyed by the artist herself and mirror surfaces, in order to incorporate ambient light into her pictorial concept and composition. It is particularly fascinating to experience her box objects in different lighting contexts. Depending on the lighting, surfaces which had previously remained unremarked emerge, or areas which previously lay in darkness light up. Specific hues are often intensified to such a degree that they appear to glow. Vantage point plays a key role in viewing the works: one step forward or back, to the left or right can evoke entirely different or new kinds of visual impressions.

Using carefully calculated artistic means, Grimm succeeds in investing the static structure of her chromatic compositions with an enormous real as well as virtual dynamism on various levels. Light transforms the state of both the work and our perception from the one to the other. Christiane

Grimm’s subtle chromatic and achromatic pictorial objects often elicit astonishment through the interplay and reciprocal effects of their colours, and this stirs our curiosity to acquaint ourselves more closely and intensively with the individual artwork in all its manifestations and the artist’s entire body of work with all its diverse facets.

HTC X Bluerider ART Genesis Special Project

HTC X Bluerider ART Genesis Special Project

Breeze ╳ Bluerider ART Special Project

Breeze ╳ Bluerider ART Special Project

【Taipei·DunRen】 'Gradient' Christiane Grimm Solo show 2022.05.07- 2022.06.26

【Taipei·DunRen】 'Gradient' Christiane Grimm Solo show 2022.05.07- 2022.06.26

「翻牆 Scale The Wall」- Bluerider ART 2019 年度實驗特展

「翻牆 Scale The Wall」- Bluerider ART 2019 年度實驗特展

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