Portraits, subjects, collages
The former editor and painter Annelie Kaduk presents portraits, subjects and collages that deal with the light and dark sides of a woman's life. Her mostly large-format paintings in intense colors are multi-layered. It is precisely their ambiguity that captivates the viewer, making them profound and mysterious. The faces in particular are full of vibrancy and harbor many an irritation.
It is not easy to get a picture of these images. Annelie Kaduk portrays women that we encounter in everyday life: successful in their careers and in art, sometimes plagued by worries and suffering, annoyed and rebellious, and yet at the same time appealingly beautiful, mysterious, motherly. Women whom we meet as muse, Barbie or mother, or as someone who steps out of the darkness into the light and out of the frame. The portraits of three authors with whom she worked as an editor receive special attention: Valerie Radtke, Charlotte Worgitzky and Maxie Wander.
And in view of the increasing threat of war and environmental destruction, Annelie Kaduk poses the question in her end-time images and her triptych as to what will happen if our species continues so obliviously. DE TEMPORUM FINE COMOEDIA? (The game of the end of times?)
Annelie Kaduk
born 1947 | studied German language and literature/art education at the HU Berlin | 20 years as a publishing editor, part-time editor and editor of Valerie Radtke's novels, reviews for "Sonntag", among others for "Sonntag" | after reunification, cultural management at the Berliner KulturBrauerei | lecturer until 2003| after serious illness, moved to the Feldberger Seenlandschaft | opened her own gallery in 2009 | exhibitions with various artists until 2018 | member of the Feldberger Kulturverein, organization of exhibitions, readings and lectures | member of GEDOK since 2019
Solo exhibition in the foyer of the Berliner Zeitung (2003), gallery of the Feldberger Kulturverein (2009, 2012, 2017, 2021), in Neustrelitz (2022), Templin (2024), Hofgalerie Lebbin (2024)
