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I am an aspiring freelance artist specializing in painting, drawing, mixed media, and photography. My work is often a hybrid of representational and abstract art.

I studied at the University of Arts in Social Context, Ottersberg, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Art, Art Therapy and Art Education).

ARTIST STATEMENT

COLOR IS MY MATERIAL/EXPRESSION

Color is my material. It is an integral part of most of my work, whether it be oil, acrylic, pastel, or colored pencil. This is complemented by photography, drawing, working with different surfaces, structures, reflections, or movements, and actively intervening in space through transitions into the corporeal and sculptural, or as object art.

Often it is the fragmentary and abstract color elements that fascinate me. I am interested in playing with the unexpected and zooming in and enlarging individual image sections or objects. Therefore, my works are not always immediately legible, and the boundaries between realism and abstraction often blur.

In addition, dealing with one's own feelings, one's own identity and social issues such as belonging or inner feelings of being torn apart also plays a role.

Emily Duckwitz, 2026

ABOUT ME

EDUCATION

2020-2024   Bachelor's degree in Art , Art Therapy and Art Education in the class for Painting, Drawing, Objects, Photography, Art in Public Space and Participation with Cony Theis and in the class for Drawing, Conceptual and Installation Art and Participatory Strategies

(formerly class for painting and drawing) with Christoph Schäfer, University of Arts in Social Context Ottersberg

since 2025   aspiring freelance artist

EXHIBITIONS

GROUPS (G), SINGLES (E)

2024 Graduation Exhibition Bachelor of Arts, University of Arts in Social Context Ottersberg. (G)

2022 - 2023 Youth for Art Kunsthalle Bremen, based on the special exhibition “Sunset. A toast to the setting sun” (G)

SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS/ RESIDENCES

2022 Participation in the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg in the class of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

2017 Participation in the 20th Bremen Summer Academy of the Kubo Art House and the Güterbahnhof Artists' House in the class of Sabine Wewer

 

PUBLICATIONS/OTHER

 

2026    Further training in self-marketing, visibility and reach for creatives with Roberta Bergmann, Academy of Cultural Education of the Federal Government and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

2025 Further training: Fundamentals of cultural mediation with Mag. Andrea Zsutty & Mag. Renate Aichinger, Institute for Cultural Concepts Vienna

2024 Occupation, kek Children's Museum for Bremen eV

2021 Conception and organization of the Art Summer 2021 children's course, University of Arts in Social Context Ottersberg

2018-2019 Occupation, Kunsthalle Bremen

 

 

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