Sieglinde Bottesch. Ursprung/Origin

The exhibition "Sieglinde Bottesch. Ursprung/Origin"
Brukenthal National Museum, Brukenthal Palace, Large Square, Sibiu
Curator: Alexandru Constantin Chituță
Opening: Friday, August 2nd, 2024, 5 p.m
Event included in the International Meeting of the Saxons Sibiu 2024 and organized with the support of the Democratic Forum of Germans from Transylvania, the Association of Transylvanian Saxons from Germany.
The catalogue of the exhibition printed under the auspices of Brukenthal National Museum Publishing House and Honterus Publishing House will also be presented during the opening.

 

Born in Sibiu in 1938, the artist Sieglinde Bottesch graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bucharest, later moving to Germany, in Ingolstadt. With a fruitful career, with personal and group exhibitions around the world, today several cultural institutions can be proud of having in their collection a number of works signed by Sieglinde Bottesch: the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the Bavarian State Library in Munich, the Brukenthal Museum National, the Transylvanian Museum in Gundelsheim, the City Museum Collection in Heilbronn, etc.

“Sieglinde Bottesch opens an exceptional exhibition at the Brukenthal National Museum. Closely linked to the old town and to Transylvania, both through her personal life and through her work and vision, the artist returns to Sibiu. She is known as an artist who distinguished herself through her works in which tradition enters into a natural dialogue with contemporary forms. The multitude of adopted techniques highlight a complex artist who searches for sources and materials through which to communicate with the viewer. Ms. Bottesch investigates the archetypal forms and Transylvanian cultural traditions realizing, through the characteristic of our times, a process of novelty and regeneration of one's freedom. In her works, memories, conceptions, intentions and feelings that are erased before they begin or continue with new achievements as in a ball of life are materialized. The artist cultivates the harmony between old and new, between formal heritage and modern creation, with the aim of obtaining an expression of contemporary culture and civilization in which the dynamics of the present preserve the core from which they were born", said Alexandru Constantin Chituță, Manager of the Brukenthal National Museum and the curator of the exhibition.