For the painter Cornelia Bier, painting is the tool – her personal alphabet – to describe life. She sees her art as a homage to nature. Time and again, she succeeds in reducing the experience of nature to simple forms, colors, surfaces and structures that give the viewer the feeling of experiencing the pure energy of what is depicted. That’s right: “experiencing” and not just seeing. Cornelia Bier’s works have a special quality. They are not images, but pure content. It seems as if her pictures reveal what she sees, the original state, the original information about herself. She has an extraordinary talent for transforming the moment into the pure state of energy inherent in things. In doing so, she creates dense and airy compositions in seemingly inexhaustible combinations of brushstrokes, applications of paint, transparency or opacity.
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transformations - the thing with energy
Artist Cornelia Bier
- Internationally successful
- Traded internationally
Publications transformation 163 ONE SIX THREE | art in print Verlag
Cornelia Bier at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolbermoor; 2022 © Cornelia Bier
content is painting, is energy
The artist finds her inspiration above all in nature.
You can literally smell the earth, the plants, the water.
And in contrast to her room compositions, whose choice of motifs is based on the same subjects but is lighter, more buoyant and fleeting, the strong connection to the earth is clear here.
Large areas of color in strong, opaque colors dominate the pictures.
The seemingly pleasantly moist warmth creeps out of the motifs and, despite their strong abstraction, spaces and landscapes emerge before the inner eye that fascinate.
The artist in the exhibition “Wilde Mischung” at ArtSpace in Munich, 2022 © Cornelia Bier
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Of course in a figurative sense, namely in the sense that it must mean “her works make rooms”.
And in two ways.
On the one hand, the pictures themselves create an astonishing spatial effect, but above all they give rooms, or even better the room in which they appear, a completely new dimension.
They are like “raumanzuege” in the sense of the original proverb.
Admittedly, this is a daring thought experiment – but sometimes thought experiments are an effective way of approaching reality.
There are plenty of role models for this, from Plato to Einstein.
Placing Cornelia Bier’s works in a random spatial context – a retouched installation world – reveals the power and immense potential of her works.
The artist in the exhibition “Wilde Mischung” at ArtSpace in Munich; 2022 © Cornelia Bier
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When you look at Cornelia Bier’s new works, the saying “Clothes make the man” inevitably comes to mind.
Of course in a figurative sense, namely in the sense that it must mean “her works make rooms”.
And in two ways.
On the one hand, the pictures themselves create an astonishing spatial effect, but above all they give rooms, or even better the room in which they appear, a completely new dimension.
They are like “raumanzuege” in the sense of the original proverb.
Admittedly, this is a daring thought experiment – but sometimes thought experiments are an effective way of approaching reality.
There are plenty of role models for this, from Plato to Einstein.
Placing Cornelia Bier’s works in a random spatial context – a retouched installation world – reveals the power and immense potential of her works.
Works on paper by Cornelia Bier; 2023 © Cornelia Bier
“kraftschichten” in the studio – the works carry something orderly and a power of their own, which is transferred to the viewer; 2022 © Cornelia Bier
Insights into the studio
2023
That’s it, 155 x 115 cm, acrylic on canvas © konsum163
"The whole variety is only visible in art. Light, shadow and spaces in between.
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Thats’ it (excerpt), © konsum163
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Rosarium, 155 x 110 cm, acrylic on canvas; 2021 © konsum163
the thing with the energy
2022
exhibitions and vita
Since 1997 various solo and group exhibitions: Apt/Provence Homburg/Saar St. Wendel Saarbrücken Recklinghausen
Born in 1956 in Baden-Württemberg, the artist Cornelia Bier studied psychology for several semesters after graduating from high school, then decided to train as an art therapist, graduating with a diploma.
She worked as a freelance art therapist for many years.
Her personal interest has always been in free painting.
The desire for her own creative work gained the upper hand.
At the same time as creating her own works of art, Cornelia Bier continued her education, attending various workshops and courses.
- Sculpting and stone carving with Helga Mayer, student of Professor Leo Kornbrust
- Painting workshops with Gabriele Musebrink
- Painting workshops with Mila Plaickner
- Guest student in the master class of Professor Qi Yang
- Cornelia Bier has been a member of Professor Markus Lüpertz’s master class at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Kolbermoor since 2019
