ASTRID KLEIN
Astrid Klein
*1951 Cologne – lives in Cologne
The complete works of Astrid Klein, created over four decades, include various media: drawings, collages, photographs, text, paintings, installations, sculptures. Very soon she was considered a pioneer of experimental photography and photographic collage. She ignored the limits of a chosen medium, experimented, decontextualised, and added new value. Klein studied at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences between 1973 and 1977. From 1993 to 2017, she lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, and in 1986 she was a guest lecturer at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg.
Selected works
Exhibitions

4. June – 18. July 2015
Astrid Klein
Collages, Mirrors and White Paintings
Pictorial material sensuality on the one hand and intellectual engagement in the form of text on the other, these are essential characteristics of Astrid Klein’s work. In her various works (painting/collage), writing and image enter into a unity that is just as fascinating as writing and light: through illumination, the contents appear borne by the immateriality of the corresponding counterpart; through over-illumination, their messages approach abstraction.
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