Andrea Wilmsen is a Berlin based visual artist, currently frequently moving between Germany and Spain.. She worked for several years in the field of communications. before she dedicates herself completely to photography since 2008. In 2017 she gained a scholarship from the University of Fine Arts in Salzburg. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and was featured in art and architecture magazines. Andrea is a member of the photographers collective aff gallery and studies currently at Neue Schule für Fotografie in Berlin. A selection of her work can be found amongst other at the catalogue of Catalan photography, initiated by the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC).
Andrea works mainly with the medium photography. Her work has an abstract approach. Her images seem to move between painting and photography, She often works with appearances of the everyday, visualizing the poetry of the simple and overlooked, creating moments of changing abstracted spatiality.
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Monat der Fotografie OFF, Curated Photo Festival, Fragile Realities, Berlin
2018 Espronceda, Center for Arts and Culture, "Kreatur", Barcelona
2017/18 ICAA, Internationaler Club im Auswärtigen Amt, Berlin, "Berlin meets Los Angeles", Berlin
2017 MB Abram Galleries, New Works, 7th Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles
2016 Espronceda, Center for Arts and Culture, "Borderlands", Barcelona
2016 WTArtspace, "Haikus or Poems of Broken Things", Barcelona
2015 MB Abram Galleries, Selected Photographs, 7th Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles
2013 Villa Aurora, "Berlin meets L.A.", Pacific Palisades, California
2013 MB Abram Galleries, Selected Photographs, 7th Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles
2012 H&R Gallery, „Otium Negotium", Hollywood, California
2010 CCA, „The Womb“, Berlin
2009 WW28, „Chairs“, Berlin
2008 Regular, Artspace, „The room within the room“, Brooklyn, NYC
Group Exhibitions
2019 Keep your Eyes peeled, group show, aff Galerie, Berlin Gallery Weekend
2018 Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, group exhibition curated by Freundeskreises des Hauses der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2018 48 Stunden Neukölln, The Rod, curated Art-Festival Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln, Berlin
2018 Arte Vicenza, M. A. Patrizio Gallery, Vicenza, Italy
2018 A Ilha, group show with workshop results of "strategies against the map" with Federico Clavarino and Andrea Grützener, Lisbon
2017 YIA Art Fair, Stadtklima, curated by Kunsthalle Kleinbasel, Paris
2017 48 Stunden Neukölln, Art-Festival Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln, "Shades of White" Berlin
2017 YIA Art Fair, Four chapters of a colored tale, curated by Kunsthalle Kleinbasel, Basel
2016 Municipal Gallery, curated group exhibition, "What remains", Berlin
2015 Centro Cultural La Farina, „Quien? Donde?“, Barcelona
2012 Goethe Institute, "Berlin meets L.A". in cooperation with Corina Gamma, Los Angeles
Scholarships and Awards
2019 Granted Artist-in-Residency Program, Arteles Creative Center, Finland
2018 Editor´s Pick, "This very moment", LensCulture Emerging Talent Award
2017 Scholarship at Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg
2017 Editor´s Pick, 3pm, LensCulture Portrait Award
2017 Editor´s Pick, 3pm, LensCulture Street Photography Award
Publications
2018 Brennpunkt, Magazin für Fotografie, Edition 4/2018, "Fragile Realities"
2018 Der Tagesspiegel, Checkpoint, "Berlin meets Los Angeles", Berlin
2017 Brennpunkt, Magazin für Fotografie, Edition 4/2017, "Berlin meets LosAngeles"
2013 DOMUS, Magazine for Art and Architecture, Review of "Berlin meets Los Angeles",