Acrylic Paint and More
I work on gessoed canvas and wood, incorporating unique elements, like sand, granite dust, wood powder, champagne chalk, marble flour, and even coffee to add texture and depth.
Following my intuition, I apply acrylic paint, pastels, pigments, ink and more with a variety of tools. Each painting evolves naturally, without a predefined plan, each layer diving deep into layers of consciousness. I paint to get my questions answered - and at the same time the paintings ask questions to me. Where do I want to go, what do I want to feel, what makes my heart sing.
With each layer, I cover up what doesn't feel right and emphasise what fascinates me. What wants to be expressed becomes gradually clearer, with each painting I come a little closer. Once I get stuck, I stop and do something completely different, I allow everything to sink in and only start again when the painting raises the next question.
Oil on Canvas
Oil paint is amazing! Even just a tiny drop can create a whole range of gorgeous hues, depending on how thin or thick it is applied. Oil paints really glow! It seems that the light reflected by the binding oil adds an extra portion of brilliance.
Light in the dark
You will notice how different this collection is from my other pieces. The works emerged during a dark phase in which, despite all the darkness, I found treasures shimmering in delicate light. After all, it was during this time that I got a first impression of the network that connects us all.
The Big Ones
All originals of this collection are at least 90 x 190 cm in size, oil on canvas. Each original is also available as a full size print on stretched canvas.
Into The Light 2024
Come and see my exhibition of almost 200 paintings from November 8th 2024 until 28th December 2024 at the National Gallery Of Seychelles, Rue de la possession, Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles
Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sunday and Public Holidays closed
"The show charts a personal journey undertaken mostly in Germany during the last two years. During this period the artist supported her husband during a time of critical illness. Her paintings record the journey made from a period when her husband was given a terminal diagnosis, through intensive treatment, and finally to a point of full recovery, which is thankfully the present position. If we could present these works sequentially and at high speed in the order in which they were created we would experience a kind of awakening of technicolour and an acceleration of illumination, as if we were in a dark corridor and suddenly opened a door into a brightly lit room. Collectively the paintings express the movement from fear to recovery.
The exhibition title reflects upon this process, with the colours and compositions of the (almost 200) paintings recording the initial anguish and later joy as the couple moved from darkness ‘into the light’."
Martin Kennedy
iNSiNUS 2020
"In Sinus 2020 Step Into The World Of The German Artist - Birgitt Lübkemann - Her Solo Exhibition "In Sinus" Opens At The Eden Art Space Gallery On 18 January. Come Visit And Share The 'Healthy Rhythms' That Ebb And Flow Over The Canvases. The Exhibition Comprises Of 83 Canvases Which Have Been Created Over The Last Two Years On The Idyllic Island Of La Digue. The German Artist Frequently Visited The Island From 1996 Until Making It Her Home Permanently In 2011.This Is The First Time These Canvases Will Hang Together In An Exhibition, The Largest Work Consists Of 33 Individual Paintings, Along With Interactive Pieces That Allow Visitors To Create Their Very Own Wall Of Images. It Is A Full Emersion Exhibition With Light, Video And Sound That Work Together To Provide A Very Special Experience. Special Edition Postcards Of The Event Will Also Be Available."
Eden Art Space, 2020
Vibrations in a microcosmos
"In the beginning, I don't know what is hidden there. It is also a journey to myself - after all, I can only uncover the forms that my body senses. I am feeling my way towards the forms that appeal to me, that correspond to me. That may correspond to me. And maybe not just to me."
Birgitt Lübkemann's oil paintings truly are impressions of paradise, images of lovingly recognised details of a microcosm that is also inherent to us all. Foreign and yet so close. Small but also large. Inside and outside become one. Shapes and colours flow into one another and create a new world in which they resonate.
Some pictures are initially reminiscent of shells, leaves and flower pistils. Others are reminiscent of fire, water and stone. But there is much more to see - as if viewers were looking through a microscope into a cosmos of their own and ultimately immersing themselves in an entire universe. Large caves, openings and muscles are revealed. Organic forms from nature become heart and soul, light and breath. It is the amazement at the miracle of life itself that speaks from Birgitt Lübkemann's pictures and jumps out at the viewer powerfully and confidently. You can almost smell and taste them, the turquoise blue sea and the ancient granite, the vibrant combination of orange papaya and purple flowers, the golden yellow mangoes and the brown curry, the pink hibiscus and the green bananas. Colours that have fascinated and inspired the artist for years, the colours of La Digue, an island in the Seychelles.
T. Laux, 2015