About

The feminine identity is primarily reflected through me as a female painter. I always choose to come back paint, draw and reflect girls and young women are living in and raised nowadays. The latter shows in my paintings, although may not always be visible. The strong, powerful female energy goes ties with the situation we as women find ourselves in today. The female figure is embedded in ‘nature’, the outdoors. Experiencing climate change and a pandemic, I feel so much more part of the natural environment as it dictates my perceptions and actions in an inevitable way. To see and feel the connectedness and beauty in this is a constant drive in my paintings. When I think of the viewer looking at my paintings, I’m hoping for a bit of unfamiliarity compared to ones own experience and the lust to discover something outside ones own body and mind. I love to paint and construct different worlds and discover something new.

The series ‚To hold one’s own world‘, finished in 2024, deals with the current situation we are living in and how I as a painter deal with the current situation we are living in and how I as a painter deal with this.

Seeking the rest, recharging, from the feeling of being overwhelmed with the ‚today‘. Holding oneself together in absence of the news, the ongoing photos, also the horrors of the nowadays.

Figure (female), tree, house are the basic ingredients I’m always coming back to in my painting process. They are holding this body of work together. And the color.

Claudia Rega

CV

	Lives and works in Münster, Germany
	EDUCATION
2012 – 2015	Study Fine Arts Painting Department, Studium Malerei, Freie Akademie der bildenden Künste, Essen, DE Klasse Bernard Lokai, Prof. Stephan Schneider – Studying Abschluß als Meisterschülerin, Akademie Stipendium Graduated as Meisterschülerin, Akademie Stipendium
1994	Degree in Psychology (Diploma), WWU Münster
	EXHIBITIONS
2025	‚Eternal Echoes‘, MINT München/ Showroom Coming Home, Solo, DE Thom Oosterhof Projects, Suspended in time, G, virtual Thom Oosterhof Projects, Limits of language, Le Mont Art Space, G, TWN (to come) ‚Murmel im digitalen Nebel‘, Die Brachiale, Lübeck, G, DE
2024	‚Other days‘, Reisig and Taylor Contemporary, Los Angeles; G, USA ‚Bunt und Blutig‘ Projekt Reinigung reinigung art room, G, Essen, DE
2023	‚Selfscape‘, G.ART.EN Gallery, Como, IT, 2Person Stav Art Gallery, New York, USA Pouch Cove Artist Residency, curated, Newfoundland, CAN
2022	‚Da hinten ist das wo wir hingehen‘, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin, DE, solo ‚Schau‘, Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald, DE ‚Da hinten ist das wo wir hinwollen‘, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin, DE, solo ‚Schau‘, Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald, DE, G ‚Inventory3‘, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin, DE, G Volta Basel, Messe mit Karl Oskar Gallery, Basel, CH
2021	‚Mediated Landscape‘, Harvard, USA ‚Mediated Landscape‘, Harvard, USA, G ‚Changing Landscape‘, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin, DE, virtual, G ‚Inventory2‘, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin, DE, G ‚Open Call‘, Shrine Gallery, New York, USA, virtuel
2020	‚Shin Haus‘, Shin Gallery, New York, USA, 2Personen Kunstspur Essen, Offene Ateliers ‚Station sechs‘, Galerienhaus Palmer, Stuttgart, DE ‚Spring Show‘, Silson Contemporary, Harrogate, GB
2019	‚Welten umspannen‘, Galerie Clowns und Pferde, Essen, DE, 2Person Kunstspur Essen, Offenes Atelier, Essen, DE Parkansichten, Gruga Park, Essen, DE, solo
2017	Kunstspur Essen, Offene Ateliers, DE
2016	‚Visits‘, Institut des Beaux-Arts, Tétouan, MAR ‚Farbe. Und Grau‘, Kunstraum Leverkusen, DE, 2Personen Kunstspur Essen. Offene Ateliers, DE
2015	„Essener Förderpreis 2015“ Nominierung und Ausstellung, Essen, DE