Desirée Eppele
The spacious works by Desirée Eppele draw viewers in, with their dynamic shapes and colourful variety. The multifaceted works of the Karlsruhe-based artist reveal finely accentuated, elaborated elements in the midst of wild and impetuous works. These almost hidden, and richly detailed elements can show themselves to the viewer as creature-like figures, amorphous body approaches or landscape-like structures, depending on their interpretation.
In her works, Eppele plays with the viewing habits, questioning them and working with the communication between artists, viewers and the artworks. Through these approaches, Desirée Eppele enables the viewer to explore different directions in the stories that the she tells in her works. Social issues, everyday happenings and events that have been experienced in the past are uncovered and addressed in a ways that are humorous, punky, very direct but also honest and liberating.
Desirée Eppele was born in Bühl in 1990 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 2012 to 2017, where she completed her studies in 2018 as Meisterschülerin (master student) of Prof. Franz Ackermann.
Artworks
Vita
Podcast production "Wack aber geil" | at letscast.fm | audio engineering, content production and merchandise design
"The Fumers" | band PR and social media content design, merchandise design
Television report about me as an artist | SWR "Kunscht" and RP "Landesart" (GER)
Leading an art workshop | Gartenschule Ettlingen (GER) with young students with cognitive and motor disabilities
Creative school support in an inclusion class | WLRS Ettlingen (GER)
Master student of Prof. Franz Ackermann
Studied Fine Arts (painting/graphics) at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (GER)
Bühl, Baden-Württemberg (GER)
lives and works in Karlsruhe
Scholarships
Scholarship NEUSTART KULTUR | Stiftung Kunstfonds
Studio scholarship | Einraumhaus c/o barac | studio, living and laboratory on ex U.S.-military area | Mannheim (GER)
Residency scholarship | Herrenhaus Edenkoben | Rhineland-Palatinate (GER)
Exhibitions (selection)
WERKstattPALAST | Art and science festival by ato | Rheinhafen Karlsruhe (GER) (Group show)
Shame of Thrones | Kunstverein Worms (GER) (Solo show)
Project F: Peeling Skin | Installation on the market square in Karlsruhe | in cooperation with the Ökomenische Citykirchenarbeit Karlsruhe (GER)
Scarlet Fever has broken the Spring | Herrenhaus | Edenkoben (GER) (Solo show)
Karlsruhe | Badisch Brauhaus | Karlsruhe (GER) (Group show)
hArt MUC | Galerie_u_108 | Munich (GER) (Group show)
Storyboard of an Artist's Persona | Luis Leu | Karlsruhe (GER) (Group show)
Portals | ARTWORKROOM | Hainfeld (GER) (Solo show)
hART Karlsruhe | Gellertstraße 14 | Karlsruhe (GER) (Group show)
A Red Light District in a Green Hole | Artspace Letschebach | Durlach (GER) (Solo show)
Projekt Barraum aktiv 3: Whole Rotten World | as part of the exhibition "Kathy Acker: GET RID OF MEANING" | Badischer Kunstverein | Karlsruhe (GER)
TOP_0018 Meisterschüler Ausstellung | Kunstverein Heidelberg (GER)
Projekt Barraum aktiv 1 | 200 Jahre Badischer Kunstverein // Festakt | Badischer Kunstverein | Karlsruhe (GER)
Outside the Box | Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst e.V. | Kunstverein Baden-Baden (GER)
SWAP MEET- The Shipping Show | Regis Center for Art | Minneapolis (USA)
Muestra Final | Galeria Central del Centro Nacional de las Artes | México City (MEX)