Delia Jürgens

Untitled (forest bathing #5-2)

2020-21, Deconstructed still of digital painting Untitled (forest bathing) woven in cotton on stretcher bar | 2 parts, 190 x 145 cm. Part of the Fragmented Landscapes The Future is but a second away - WALD (2018-2021). Photo: Gernot Seeliger.

Installation view REFLECTIONS Galerie Georg Nothelfer. Photo: Gernot Seeliger

Untitled (Petrified #1)

2019, Deconstructed stock image of fossil rhizomes interlaced with recorded and live streamed studio moments and traces of brush strokes interrupted by saving error woven in cotton on MDF, 252 x 180 cm. Part of the Fragmented Landscapes The Future is but a second away - WALD (2018-2021). Photo: Simon Vogel

is it me or you #2

Installation view at parking lot, Messe Deutz, Cologne, 2016-2017. Photo: Alwin Lay

A Morning full of Dust-FACADES_13 — is it me or you #2,
Installation view at parking lot, Messe Deutz, Cologne, 2016-2017. Photo: Alwin Lay

is it me or you #2

2016-2017, Digital painting (uploaded mp4) streamed from Instagram, smartphone, size variable. Part of the Fragmented Landscape A morning full of Dust, you’re half inside and half Way out - Facades. Photo: Alwin Lay

A Morning full of Dust-FACADES_14 — is it me or you #2,
2016-2017, Digital painting (uploaded mp4) streamed from Instagram, smartphone, size variable. Part of the Fragmented Landscape A morning full of Dust, you’re half inside and half Way out - Facades. Photo: Alwin Lay

is it me or you #1

2016-2017, Video still, size variable. Part of the Fragmented Landscape A morning full of Dust, you’re half inside and half Way out - Facades. Photo: Björn Reschabek

A Morning full of Dust-FACADES_1 — is it me or you #1,
2016-2017, Video still, size variable. Part of the Fragmented Landscape A morning full of Dust, you’re half inside and half Way out - Facades. Photo: Björn Reschabek

Untitled (Im Staub der Sonne und der Sterne) #1

2019/2021, Projection of google earth recording of worldwide deserts on paint on pigmented Inkjetprint of still of google earth cast of desert overcast with resin on MDF, 50 x 70 cm. Part of the Fragmented Landscape Coming from Reality - LOCKDOWN PAINTINGS (SUMER)

Coming from reality_Lockdown paintings_sumer_2 — Untitled (Im Staub der Sonne und der Sterne) #1,
2019/2021, Projection of google earth recording of worldwide deserts on paint on pigmented Inkjetprint of still of google earth cast of desert overcast with resin on MDF, 50 x 70 cm. Part of the Fragmented Landscape *Coming from Reality - LOCKDOWN PAINTINGS (SUMER)*

Untitled (that could only happen in memory) #1

2019/2021, Digital painting made of google earth recordings of
worldwide deserts (jpeg), size variable. Part of the Fragmented Landscape Coming from Reality - LOCKDOWN PAINTINGS (SUMER). Photo: Björn Reschabek

Coming from reality_Lockdown paintings_sumer_1 — Untitled (that could only happen in memory) #1,
2019/2021, Digital painting made of google earth recordings of
worldwide deserts (jpeg), size variable. Part of the Fragmented Landscape *Coming from Reality - LOCKDOWN PAINTINGS (SUMER).* Photo: Björn Reschabek

Untitled (Im Staub der Sonne und der Sterne) #1

Coming from reality_Lockdown paintings_sumer_4 — Untitled (Im Staub der Sonne und der Sterne) #1,
2019/2021, Projection of google earth recording of worldwide deserts on paint on pigmented Inkjetprint of still of google earth cast of desert overcast with resin on MDF, 50 x 70 cm. Part of the Fragmented Landscape *Coming from Reality - LOCKDOWN PAINTINGS (SUMER)*

Installation view THE FUTURE IS BUT A SECOND AWAY, Sprengel Museum Hanover, 2018. Photo: Herling / Werner

Reflections_Wald_1 — Installation view *THE FUTURE IS BUT A SECOND AWAY,* Sprengel Museum Hanover, 2018. Photo: Herling / Werner

Installation view THE FUTURE IS BUT A SECOND AWAY, Sprengel Museum Hanover, 2018. Photo: Herling / Werner

Reflections_Wald_4 — Installation view *THE FUTURE IS BUT A SECOND AWAY*, Sprengel Museum Hanover, 2018. Photo: Herling / Werner

Cloud Storage

Installation view CLOUD STORAGE, Sprengel Museum Hanover, 2018. Photo: Herling / Werner

Biography

1986 born in Hanover

2011 Bachelor of Arts, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover, Scenographics with Prof. Colin Walker

2014 Master of Arts, University of Arts Braunschweig, Fine Arts Department with Prof. Frances Scholz

2015 Artist-in-Residence Künstlerhaus Meinersen

2016 Working grant of the Ministry of Science and Culture, Lower Saxony

2018 Sprengel Prize of the Sprengel Museum and the Sparkassenstiftung Niedersachsen

2019 Working grant of the Stiftung Kunstfonds

2017 Solo exhibition in response to, 34°12'52.6''N 116°27'18.0''W, Joshua Tree (CA), United States

2018/19 Solo exhibition The Future is but a Second away, Sprengel Museum. Hanover, Germany, curated by Carina Plath

2023 Solo exhibition Reflections, Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
Lives and works between Hanover (GER) and Los Angeles (USA).

Delia Jürgens work deals with the ambiguity of life in today’s world shaped by global economics and digital networks. She reflects on how economic and cultural values are created and how they affect the individual and collective consciousness or body. The results of her multilayered works are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted while creating a new way of painting. Rather than presenting a factual reality, she shows an illusion fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination in a dense imagery that can be both - spatial and fictional - existing in the gap between and the dependence of one another.

Delia Jürgens

Biography

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