Jorinde Voigt - Studies with Christiane Möbus and Katharina Sieverding
Jorinde Voigt was born in Frankfurt am Main on 19th January 1977. During her school years, she took cello lessons at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt and with Peter Wolf in Frankfurt, but soon found the music lessons to be strict and restrictive, and so ultimately decided not to make music her main profession. After Jorinde Voigt passed her A-levels in Darmstadt in 1996, she went to Göttingen to study philosophy and modern German literature at the university, followed wo years later by the move to Berlin, where she studied sociology and literature. In 1999, she turned to art for the first time by studying multimedia with Christiane Möbus at the Berlin University of the Arts, whilst the European Union's Erasmus programme enabled Voigt to study further at the Royal College of Art in London in 2001. On her return to Berlin, she moved to Katharina Sieverding's class, where she studied fine art and photography and eventually advanced to master student. In addition to her studies in England, the artist travelled to North America and Indonesia, where she began to draw immediate impressions of her surroundings.
Complex drawing systems in black and white and colour
In her early experiments with photography, Jorinde Voigt quickly realised that it did not offer her the desired opportunities to express her thoughts and feelings adequately. Her first series were created in a small format. The artist was not interested in depicting her surroundings, but in analysing them comprehensively; she translated the frequencies of the situations and events she experienced and observed into her own personal system of numbers, lines and symbols. This was soon followed by paintings in large format with ink and paper, but still strictly in black and white. It was not until 2009 that Voigt began to incorporate colour into her art. Based on her own perception of colour, which she honed primarily during long walks through the botanical gardens of Berlin, Voigt created a code of colour fields, which she had applied to aluminium rods for the installation Botanic Code. For her Superdestinations series, she created sketch-like drawings with coloured pencils.
Art as code: Deciphering reality and perception
Jorinde Voigt develops her sophisticated algorithms anew for each of her extensively treated themes, leaving nothing to chance and relying instead on a fascinating mixture of logical structure and creative inspiration. Since 2011, the artist has also been working increasingly with collages, for which she layers delicate networks of lines and abstract areas of colour. In recent years, literature and philosophy have found their way into Voigt's work; she approaches the writings of the great philosophers and writers with effective inlays of appropriately precious materials such as gold leaf and other precious metals. This unique visual language, with which the artist successively decodes the interweaving of reality and perception, has earned Jorinde Voigt's work a place in numerous private and public collections and culminated in her appointment as Professor of Painting and Conceptual Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 2014.
Jorinde Voigt lives and works in Berlin where she owns a spacious studio bungalow in the Treptow-Köpenich district.
Jorinde Voigt - Works that have already been sold at Kunsthaus Lempertz:
