Beatrice Richter (*1989, Recklinghausen) lives and works in Düsseldorf . She studied fine arts with Professor Martin Gostner and Professor Herbert Brandl at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf graduating in 2018.
Her work were shown in various solo and group shows e.g. at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2019), Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (2019), Märkisches Museum, Witten (2020), Kunstverein Junge Kunst, Trier (2023) and Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (2024).
Before her residency in Viersen she received DEW21 promotion prize (Museums Ostwall, Dortmund, 2018), Koschatzky Art Award (Mumok, Vienna, 2019) and the first Peters-Messer scholarship (Viersen, 2024).
o.T. (A5)-22-104, ink & binder on paper 21 x 14,8 cm | 25,5 x 19,5 x 1,5 cm (framed) ©Jana Buch
„kill your-darlings (62/42)-24-01, 2024, ink & binder on paper, 62 x 42 cm ©Jana Buch
„kill your-darlings (A3) - 23-03, 2023, ink & binder on paper, 42 x 29,7 cm | 47,2 x 34,9 x 1,7 cm (framed) ©Jana Buch
Discipline
painting, drawing, collage
Installationshot „Precise Placements“, Kunstverein Trier Junge Kunst, Trier, 2023 (Solo show) ©Lukas Huneke
"(...) Single, strongly concentrated drops or glazing smudges. Brushstrokes that end in nothingness or even outside the picture ground. Organic forms that are in fact abstract pictorial elements. A richness equal to the principle of nature itself runs into strict reduction in the overall composition, within one work. Loose, painterly gesture shares the picture ground with precise placements. Gravity and weightlessness engage in a tug-of-war within the composition, in which no one gains the upper hand. One could continue these only apparent contradictions, but the principle becomes clear even so: the process character of her works is important to Beatrice Richter; the artistic challenge is to preserve this in the picture without destroying it at the same time.(…).“ Julia Ritterskamp, Düsseldorf, 2022
Installationshot „Kunstgenerator“, Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen, 2022/23 ©Jana Buch