Since studying sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts at Karlsruhe, Patricia Waller has consistently been working at her crocheted objects with underlying meanings. Whether they are human organs or limbs preserved in glass containers, small and pathetic monsters connected with cables on skewers, aliens, meals on plates, settees, systems to collect urine, artificial limbs of all kinds, edelweiss embroidered industrial robots or knitted walls of monitors with videogames and interference on pictures – always highly explosive issues are disguised as homely and superficial seeming tranquil harmlessness. Our traditional ways of seeing are being outwitted by virtue of the sheer disproportionality of material and object. The subtle message will only be perceived at second sight: for the time being, through loving handicraft work, the edge is taken away. However, it comes back at the latest when the viewer takes on the issues raised in the work.
Patricia Waller was born 1962 in Santiago/Chile – she came to Germany in 1968. From 1983 until 1985 she studied at the Freie Kunstschule in Nürtingen. 1985 she began her studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and finished them in 1990 with a degree as a Master student. This was followed by scholarships in Gent, Chicago and Paris as well as teaching at Pforzheim and Cologne. Patricia Waller lives and works as an artist in Karlsruhe.
Solo Exhibitions (Selections)
2007 Crossing Wonderland Gallery Deschler, Berlin
2005 nightmares Gallery Deschler, Berlin
–žKunst-Genuss–œ Gallery Pro Arte, Freiburg (with Horst Sobotta)
Art Delights, Ego-Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2004 ZOOM Gallery Haus Schneider, Ettlingen (with Susanne Ackermann)
Seemannsgarn Gallery Tobias Schrade, Ulm
Atelier 340 / Muzeum, Bruxelles, Belgium
2003 Needleworks Kunstforum Rheinhessen, Essenheimer Kunstverein, Essenheim
Seemannsgarn Gallery Marcus Schmitz, Cologne
2002 handmade Galeria Metropolitana, Barcelona, Spain
Tatort Museum Gallery Deschler, Berlin
Mahlzeit Burgmuseum der Stadt Horn-Bad Meinberg
skin Kabinett im Stadtmuseum, Jena
handmade EnBW Energie AG, Sonycenter, Berlin
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2006 Auf leisen Pfoten – Die Katze in der Kunst Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe (K)
Spiel mit Technik Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (K)
Winter Setting Gallery Deschler, Berlin
Reiz und Risiko Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf/Switzerland (K)
art Karlsruhe
fine art Cologne
THIS BALL IS SQUARE – Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Fußball Gallery Deschler, Berlin
2005 10 Jahre – Künstler der Galerie Gallery Deschler, Berlin
Maus-Haus, Tokyo, Japan, im Rahmen des deutschen Jahres
Roboter Opelvillen Rüsselsheim
Petits fours, Comme çi, comme ça,II, Cologne
Reflexionen Art Center Berlin
219 km Berlin – Rostock Kunsthalle Rostock
art Cologne
art Karlsruhe
curious Gallery Deschler, Berlin
2004 Natur ganz Kunst Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (K)
All About... Skulptur, Whitebox in der Kultfabrik, Munich
Idylle Galerie Tobias Schrade, Ulm
Grenzüberschreitung Kunstverein Ellwangen (K)
Kunst-Genuss Akademie of the Diözese Rottenburg - Stuttgart, Weingarten
Gute Fahrt! Kunst auf vier Rädern 8. Rischart-Projekt, Munich (K)
5x5 Skulptur am Pfefferberg Haus 2, Berlin
An der Nadel Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Erst kommt das Fressen und dann kommt die Moral Gallery of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
2003 Retour de Paris EnBW , Centre Culturel Franco-Allemand, Karlsruhe (K)
Boxenstop Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Südstudio
Heroes Gallery Reiner Wehr, Stuttgart
Beziehungsweisen E-Werk, Hallen für Kunst, Freiburg (K)
curious Gallery Deschler, Berlin
Imbissbuden – Essen ohne Grenzen Freilichtmuseum Domäne Dahlem, Berlin
Left hand, right hand 798 Space, Peking, China (K)
5 x 5 Skulptur in Berlin Pfefferberg Haus 2, Berlin
2002 Karlsruhe-Leipzig 1:1 Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig
Smullen von Kunst Gemeentemuseum, Helmond, NL
kleinskulptur Gallery Rhenus, Köln
Schwarzwaldhochstrasse Contemporary art in Baden-Württemberg,
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (K)
Kunstfreitag Art in the underground carpark, Friedrichshafen
Experimentelle 12 Castle Randegg
Mit vollem Munde spricht man nicht Municipal Gallery Kiel
Kunsthappen Gallery at the Kunsthaus, Erfurt
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