Artist Spotlight - Pilbri — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

I am Pilbri - Britta Neumärker, a German artist who was already featured in an interview in Contemporary Art Curator Magazine. My artistic work includes painting and photography.
In this spotlight you can see. some of my photographic works.

I have started my artistic career with painting.
Since an accident in 2003 I had permanent double images and this has influenced my artistic style up to now.

Biography

The first works of art in my many years of artistic work were expressionistic and impressionistic, based on my role models Monet, Macke, Münter, Kandinsky and the entire Blue Rider group.
2005 first own studio
2006/2007 the name Pilbri, the signature of my works of art, was registered as a trademark with the German Patent and Trademark Office.

Series: Floating Objects 2013 Nr. 1 digital photography 200x 65 cm

2004-2007 various exhibitions, including themed exhibitions with an artist group.
2007 /2008 Pilbri Art in Modules
This series is actually about the time when I had to admit to myself that no doctor could help me with the double images.

Series: Floating Objects 2013 Nr. 2 digital photography 200 x 65 cm

I was interested in the order that I was missing in my vision and I created the series Art in Modules with aluminum Dibond panels, fiberboard and acrylic glass panels as individual parts that I combined freely. This allowed me to create small and large objects. By connecting the individual parts, my order was restored. This was my orientation and control in my dream world with the double images.

Series: Floating Objects 2013 Nr. 3 digital photography

In 2008 I held a solo exhibition of my double images.
I worked several years for this exhibition to show humans what I see.
Shortly afterwards, in 2008, I began artistic photography. Under the theme of rediscovering the familiar, I designed the series “City Views” with the city highlights of New York, Venice, Lisbon and Paris, as well as the series “Stonehenge”.

Series: Floating Objects 2013 Nr. 4 digital photography

A gallery owner said at my exhibition of some New York pictures: These are pictures as if born from dreams. Day and night dissolve.
In 2010 I began working with glass and made my own glass jewelry.
The glass also inspired me to make a photo series with glass, such as the series: the universe.

In 2013/2014 I completed a two-year master class with Beuys student Hannelore E. Busch, with a final exhibition and certificate. After the free master class, my art became more and more abstract. The painting series Brain Art and my current series: Art with a smile were created. As part of the photo art, the series Floating objects inspired by polymer clay was created after the master class.

Series: Deep Sea 2012 Nr. 2 digital photography

In all my work, I always look behind the scenes. Since my vision has changed a lot due to my double images, I focused more on the meaning of the content and on seeing as a metaphor in all its facets and everything that has to do with the brain. In doing so, I discovered the brain's ability to visualize and hope as a driving force for people to have a good future.

Series: Deep Sea 2012 Nr. 3 digital photography

Artist Statement

"You can only see well with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye." from the book "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the leitmotif for my life and for 20 years also for my art.
For 20 years of my professional artistic work, my art has always been about seeing behind things, breaking down facades and highlighting what is unique.

Series: Deep Sea 2012 Nr. 4 digital photography

My art makes visible what is hidden in our consciousness and our behavior, the longings, needs and fears of our human existence. Art is a way of making the invisible visible. Art thus offers the opportunity to strengthen and change people's collective consciousness. This makes it possible to change the world for the better in the medium and long term.

I would like to make a small contribution to this with my art and focus people on this path with the spirit of hope and smiles. I want the human beings to be open for new technologies, but with using our brains to use them with responsibility.

Spring cleaning in the brain 2014 digital photography

I have received several awards in the course of my artistic career. Most recently, I was awarded the Future of Art Global Masterpiece Award by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine in 2024. In January 2025, I will be named Artist of the Year 2025 at the Palazzo Pucci in Florence.

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