The group 'IZZI' consists of four artists from Berlin and the surrounding area, who have known each other for many years from their time studying together at the Berlin Weissensee School of Art. Since 2018, the group has been meeting regularly every week on Thursdays to work together and to develop and exhibit artistic projects. Although all members work in different media, painting has emerged as the focus of their joint work.
The aspiration of the group is to create works of art together and to combine the personal handwriting of the individual members with that of all the members. In this way, all the group members always work on a painting, either simultaneously or one after the other. Thus, not only a new artistic handwriting is created, but also the communication between the members of the group is depicted on the medium. Their first series of paintings consists of large formats up to 10m x 3m. Since 2022, they have also been painting on smaller formats.
A characteristic of their work is that they do not have a fixed studio and therefore paint in different locations. In the past, these have included bridges and streets in urban spaces, a corridor in a warehouse, a bower, an old paper factory and multiple flats.
In the course of their joint work, essential principles have developed:
Continuity, openness and voluntariness. These are the three pillars that have proven sustainable in their collaboration. Their personal ideas of professionalism and their personal standards are constantly put to the test and in this way 'social painting' is created.
Exhibitions and Projects
2022
Painting week, portraiture and intuitive painting, bower Kirchmöser, appartment Badstraße Berlin, Panke basin Berlin Wedding
2021
Painting Moves, May to September, performative, collaborative pleinair painting, 10 collective walks with one canvas each
Gemischte Platte, painting performance, Atelierhaus Prenzlauer Promenade, Berlin
2020
Weekly work in the Uferhallen on communal paintings (2020-2021), Berlin Wedding
Under the Brigde, design of a large-scale painting in urban space, Berlin Moabit
Draft design Synagogue Saarbrücken, art in public space, Saarbrücken
Design interpretation Ernst Thälmann monument, art in public space, Berlin Prenzlauer Berg
2019
Design Nöldnerplatz, art in public space, closed competition, Berlin Lichtenberg
Gemischte Platte, meeting, performance Donnerstagsclub, gatehouse of the studio house Prenzlauer Promenade, Berlin Weissensee
Ausstellung, Künstlergruppe, curated by Joel Mu, KuLe, Berlin Mitte
Summer residence Alte Papierfabrik Spechthausen, Eberswalde
2018
Design Luther & Melanchthon Monument in Leizpig, Art in Public Space, Leipzig
Malwoche, Oktober 2022
DONNERSTAGSCLUB
Malerei Bewegt | Performative Pleinairmalerei
mit Christl Mudrak, Ute Ringel, Andreas Sell und Gästen
Diese kollaborative Malerei für vier Künstler*innen und die Öffentlichkeit im Stadtraum wird im Bezirk Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf an zwölf Tagen auf jeweils verschiedenen Routen stattfinden.
Eine große grundierte Leinwand wird auf einer geplanten Route durch den Stadtbezirk getragen. Gleichzeitig malen die Künstler*innen der Arbeitsgruppe gemeinsam an der sich weiter bewegenden Leinwand und halten die sich ständig verändernde Umgebung in ihrer gemeinschaftlichen Malerei auf der Leinwand fest. Alles was sie für diese Pleinairmalerei brauchen, haben sie bei sich am Körper und tragen es mit. Es entsteht eine gemeinsame Stadtnotation, deren Entstehungsprozess von den Menschen auf der Straße beobachtet und mitgestaltet werden kann. Das gemeinsame Gehen generiert einen Rhythmus mit Tanzcharackter. Auf den Leinwänden wird neben der dargestellten Umgebung das Performative der Entstehung, die Dynamik der Handlung und die Geschwindigkeit der Entscheidungsprozesse dokumentiert. Anders als beim Malen im Atelier, ändert sich ständig etwas in der Umgebung und schon geht es einen Schritt weiter in dieser Synchronität. Die Malenden und das Bild wandern immer zusammen weiter. Die Geschwindigkeit der Bewegung wird die Präzision der Pinselstriche und die Qualität der Malerei beeinflussen.
#stadtfindetkunst
Weekly work in the Uferhallen on communal paintings (2020-2021), Berlin Wedding
Waschbild, 2019,
acrylic on cotton, (h) 250 (w) 711
Losungen, 2019,
acrylic on textile, (h) 280 (w) 510
Dinosaurier, 2020
acrylic on cotton, (h) 300 (w) 474
Fehler im System, 2020
acrylic on cotton, (h) 300 (w) 373
Floss Medusa, 2020
acrylic on cotton, (h) 300 (w) 377
Los Angeles, 2020
acrylic on cotton, (h) 300 (w) 375
Leinwandstücke, 2021
acrylic on cotton, (h) 305 (w) 175
Cant del la Sybilla, 2020 acrylic on cotton, (h) 300 (w) 373
Maindros, 2020
acrylic on cotton, (h) 300 (w) 175
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Japanese Maindros Copy
2020, acrylic on cotton, (h) 300 (w) 175
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Circle pink, 2021,
cotton sheet, (h) 220 (w) 240
The other bed sheet, 2021
cotton sheet, (h) 240 (w) 220
Curtain, 2021, acrylic on textile, (h) (w)
Dog of Barba Rosa, acrylic on terry cloth sheet, (h) 200 (w) 290
Isaac Julien, 2020, acrylic on canvas, (h) (w)
Kartoffel auf Orange, 2021
Kosmetikerinbild, 2020
acrylic on canvas, (h) (w)
Studie zu Handlungsfraktalen
2015 - 2016
Banküberfall
Regie, Kamera, Schnitt:
Michael Otto, Ute Ringel, Andreas Sell
2018
Wenn du die Spanplatte spüren möchtest,
die ich für dich hingelegt habe,
musst du das Aufrechte Fingerkraut runterdrücken.
Regie, Kamera, Schnitt:
Michael Otto, Ute Ringel, Andreas Sell
Querflöte: Andreas Hoffschildt
HD, stereo, 2:32 min
2018
If you want to feel the chipboard,
that I layed out for you,
you´ll have to push down the sulphur cinquefoil.
The shortfilm was filmed and edited in and around Berlin and Eberswalde from 2015 to 2016 and is one of several outcomes of a long term collaborative project between Micha Otto, Ute Ringel and Andreas Sell, who work together as the collective Kunstgruppe. Since 2015 Kunstgruppe has been trying through varied forms and media in episodic attempts to solve the very problems of collectivity: how to make and resolve works as an ensemble? Kunstgruppe, is a durational collaborative project, navigating the problems of togetherness. The group switches from collective painting, to performance, to film, to Group therapy and open plenum, continuously navigating the problem of how to be and make together.
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