Biography
“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky
Short Biography
The love of art and the need to express myself through colours and compositions have always accompanied me. Photographs, nature drawings, nude and portrait painting developed while training as a textile and design engineer have helped me develop a handwriting that is as precise artistically as it is sound on an artisanal level. Like many artists of the 20th and 21st century, I have turned from figurative painting first to collage and then to abstraction.
I reduce to the essential: shapes and the substance of colours. My means of expression are surface structures and textures, strong contrasts, at times expressive colour choices and play with colour surfaces that partly conceal, partly reveal what lies beneath. In order for the complexity and optical depth of the paintings to become perceptible, parts of the canvas remain open. To apply layers, I use paintbrushes and palette knives, oil crayons, pencil and pigments.
Travelling is my source of inspiration: I am guided by memories of a place’s colours, its nature, particular patterns of light and shadow. My artistic practice is a painted response to the disrespect of the environment and the fast pace of the increasingly digitalized world; an expression of my desire that we develop respect for the surrounding world and that we recognize the urgency of a sustainable protection of nature. The paintings’ titles refer to those sources of inspiration, subject areas and concerns. More importantly, though, my colour worlds are meant to invite viewers to go on a sensuous journey of discovery and to inspire thoughts and ideas of their own.
Sonja Kalb, 2021
Current & Upcoming
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Kunstverein Duisburg
27 September - 27 October 2024
Die Natur, die Luft und die Zeit
Sonja Kalb - Martina Justus
Opening on Friday, 27 September 2024 at 7 pm
Welcome by Ralf Buchholz
Introduction by Elfi Zimmerling M.A. Art historian, State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
on the following Sundays at 4 pm
29.09. Exhibition tour with Sonja Kalb and Martina Justus
05.10. Exhibition tour with Sonja Kalb
06.10. Signing session Sonja Kalb
13.10. Artist Talk Martina Justus
27.10. Artist Talk Sonja Kalb
Finissage 27.10. at 3 pm
Friday 17:00 to 19:00
Saturday 15:00 to 18:00
Sunday 15:00 to 18:00
Kunstverein Duisburg e.V.
Weidenweg 10
47059 Duisburg
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OpenArtCode Geneva
October 9 – October 19, 2024
Thursday, Opening October 9, 2024
Eva Beumer, David Harry, James Hayman, Sumio Inoue, Sonja Kalb,
Sara Palleria, Marco Aurelio Rey, Edward Rilke, Rachel Ruff, Wayne Stoner,
Enzo Trapani, Max Werner
Artrium Galerie
Rue de l’Hôtel de Ville
1204 Genf
CH
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Kunstpunkt 102
September 14, 2024 - Saterday 14-20:00
September 15, 2024 - Sunday 12-18:00
Kunstpunkt 102_Sonja Kalb
Wielandstr. 54
40211 Düsseldorf
DE
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Opening August 3, 2024 at 6pm - 9pm
August 3 – August 18, 2024
Opening Hours 6pm – 11pm
The 8th edition of the Chianciano Biennale presents 150 artists contemporary art in one of the most dynamic contemporary art competitions and celebrations in the world.
Museo d'Arte di Chianciano
Viale della Libertà, 280
53042 Chianciano Terme SI,
Italy
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Magic of Flowers
Sonja Kalb
Juni 15 – August 2024
Opening Juni 15, 2024
ARTE GLOBALE is thrilled to present the first solo show with the gallery of contemporary artist Sonja Kalb, Magic of Flowers. Contemporary paintings.
"Colour is a power which directly influences the soul." Wassily Kandinsky
Sonja’s paintings are a magical poem of colours, in the serene emotional beauty of a balmy garden at sunset and more. A musical orchestra of feelings where notes are shades of light and the hue of flowers.
"The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble." Wassily Kandinsky
ARTE GLOBALE LIMITED
71-75 Shelton Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9JQ
United Kingdom
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Focus Art Fair
May 9th-12th, 2024
Arte Globale Gallery
Stand 218
Focus Art Fair
Chelsea Industrial
W 28th Street 535-551
10001 New York City
US
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OpenArtCode Barcelona
May 9 – May 23, 2024
Thursday, Opening May 9
Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona
Carrer dels Arcs 5
08002 Barcelona
ES
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Beyond Landscape
Xianwei Zhu, Christoph Pöggeler, Sonja Kalb
7 March – 6 April 2024
Opening on 8 March 2024, 18:00
Galerie Kellermann
Heinrich-Heine-Allee 12
40212 Düsseldorf
DE
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LA Art Show
14 – 18 Februar 2024
Arte Globale Gallery
Booth 817
LA Convention Center, West Hall
1201 S Figueroa St
Los Angeles, CA 90015
US
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Boundless Beauty
14–22 January 2024
Opening on Saturday, 13 January 2024, 17:30
Due uno Due Spazio Espositivo
Via Galliera, 2
40121 Bologna BO
IT