Short Biography:

 

Born & raised in Berlin, Germany

Tinka Bechert lives and works in the West of Ireland & Berlin.

 

Masters in Visual Arts Practice,

Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art,

Design & Technology, Dublin, Ireland

 

Collections:

 

Tinka Bechert’s work is represented in many private and public collections in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Austria, Ireland and the UK. Selected Collections include the Office of Public Works, Ireland, the Central Art Archives/ National Library, Berlin, Germany, the Victoria & Albert Museum (National Art Library, London) and Tate Britain, London.

 

Solo- Exhibitions :

 

2018/ 19: Solo Exhibition: Neue Malerei: Die Verwandlung/

Metamorphosis, Galerie Gerken, Berlin

2017: Solo Exhibition: Shadow of Ourselves

Priors PLM/ Arts Office & Leitrim County Council, Ireland

2016: Tinka Bechert & Nils Kasiske, Gallery Gerken, Berlin, Germany

2014: Synaesthesia: 25 subjects, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg,

Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst, Germany

2013: Solo Exhibition/ Retrospective and Cataloque Launch (see publications): Tinka Bechert: Of Painting and Other Adventures, 2003 – 2013, Kunsthalle Brennabor, Brandenburg/ Havel, Germany

2012: Stadt-Museum Naumburg: Von Naumburg zum blauen Nil, Triangulations, Naumburg

2011/ 2012: Solo Exhibition: Triangulations, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Academy of Scienes Humanities (BBAW

2009: Solo Exhibition: Malerei/ Paintings, Galerie 21, Braunschweig, Germany

2008: Solo Exhibition: Exploration, Malerei von Tinka Bechert, Galerie Ardizon, Bregenz, Austria

2008: The Banff Series, Malerei, Summit Fine Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada

2007: Paintings: Open Studio, Leighton Artists’ Colony, Banff Centre

for the Arts, Canada

2007: Drawings: Return Trip, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for

the Arts, Canada

2005: Lineage, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Ireland

2004: New Work, Custom House Studios,Westport, County Mayo, Ireland

2004: Lineage, Sligo Art Gallery, Ireland

 

Awards:

 

2018: Shortlisted for BEEP Painting Prize, Swansea UK

2018: Creative Ireland Research Grant

2017: Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland

2017: Residency Award, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland

2017: Spark Residency Programme, Priors PLM in

association with Arts Office ,Leitrim County Council &

Enterprise Board, Ireland

2016: Shortlisted for Derwent Art Prize, London, UK

2016: Shortlisted for Jacksons Art Prize, London, UK

2014: Routine and Change: Experiments on Neuroplasticity,

10 week- Fellowship/ Residency at the Hanse-

Wissenschaftskolleg,

Institute for Advanced StudyDelmenhorst, Germany

2011: Artist in Residence, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin, Germany

2011: Artist in Residence, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany.

2010: Artist in Resiidence, Arts Residency Egypt , Giza/Harem, Egypt, collaborative residency with artists Anne Devine and Sarah Badran for TRIANGULATIONS: The Giza Plateau + Nile River, Egypt

2010: Irish Arts Council Travel & Training Award Triangulations : London | Cairo, Egypt

2009: Sligo County Council Arts Bursary

2007: Artist in Residence. Leighton Studios, Banff Centre Banff,

Alberta, Canada.

Solo artist residency, realised August-October 2007

2006: Granted by the Irish Arts Council : Banff Centre, Leighton Studios, self-directed artist residency

2005: Artists’ Book, Mariannenpresse Berlin, (limited edition of 100 copies, containing lithographs)

2005: Solo Exhibition (Award) South Tipperary Arts Centre, Ireland

2004: Solo Exhibition (Award), Sligo Art Gallery, Ireland

 

Bibliography:

 

2017: Fight or Flight, Exhibition Catalogue,

The Painting Centre, NY, USA

2017: VAN Newsletter, Article/ March/April Issue:

Tinka Bechert: Shadowgraph, Measuring the Invisible,

Dublin, Ireland

2016: Art in Progress/ Science meets fiction, publication by

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, HWK, Institute of

Advanced Study,

Delmenhorst, Germany

2016: Yeats 200, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Catalogue

2016: Fresh Paint Magazine, Issue 12, United States & UK

2016: Editor on W/K- Art & Science Blog, Dusseldorf,

Germany

2014: Publication with Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademy of sciences and Humanities, Berlin: Artefakte: Kunst ist Wissen – Wissen ist Kunst

2013: Publication/ Monograph: Tinka Bechert: Of Painting and Other Adventures, 2003-2013/ 158-Page Monograph/ Cataloque, [Hardback/Linen, Deutsch & English] Publisher ARTinFlow, Authors: Ulrike Oppelt (Herausgeber, Autor), Dorothée Bauerle-Willert (Autor), Ingelore Hafemann (Autor), Björn Kuhligk (Autor), Anne Mueller von der Haegen (Autor), Eckhardt Momber (Autor), Karlheinz Pichler (Autor), Tinka Bechert (Künstler, Fotograf, Autor, Konzeption)

2012: Publication/ Book with NEUES MUSEUM & BBAW: Karl Richard Lepsius, der Begründer deutschen Ägyptologie, Herausg. Verena Lepper, Ingelore Hafemann, Kadmos Kulturverlag, Berlin.

2011: Eine Spur im Strom, Artists’ Book, Lim, Ed. of 50,

Die Quetsche Verlag.Witzwort

2009: Abridged Zero Seventeen, Modern Day,

Art & Poetry Magazin, Northern Ireland

2007: Boyle Arts Festival/ Invited Artists Exhibition/ King House/ Catalogue, Ireland

2005: Collaboration with writer & poet Eckhardt Momber in design & creation of artist’s book ‘Chinamesser’: Artists’ Book, Mariannenpresse Berlin, (limited edition of 100 copies, containing lithographs)

2004: Tinka Bechert: New Paintings, Solo-Catalogue, published alongside Custom House Studio Show, Ireland