ANDREA DAMP
-Call of the Void-
April 30. – June 28. 2025
opening reception: April 29. 5-8pm
Gallery Weekend Berlin open: April 30th 12 – 7pm, May 1st 12 – 8pm, May 2nd 11 – 8pm, May 3rd 11 – 7pm, May 4th 12 – 6pm
Andrea Damp, born in 1977 on the island of Rügen, expresses the complexity of her origins and education in her art. Her home village, founded in the early 19th century, lies in a region full of historical significance that has already inspired artists such as Caspar David Friedrich. Damp’s talent for painting was already evident in her childhood, encouraged by her village school teacher and later by an artist at the Berlin Weißensee Art Academy.
Her artistic development took her to the Berlin University of the Arts, where she studied under Prof. Hans-Jürgen Diehl, a representative of critical realism who later pursued abstract, non-narrative painting. These two influences – the narrative imprint of her childhood and the abstract perspective of her student days – remain the pillars of her work to this day and give her painting a unique aesthetic appeal.
Andrea Damp’s works are created in a slow, time-consuming process in which she applies aqueous solutions of acrylic paint to the canvas step by step and layer by layer. Different consistencies of the paint interact with each other, and the result is checked after each drying step. There is a constant dialogue with art history, with composition and color theory playing an important role. The influences range from Jackson Pollock’s gestural feats of strength to the works of the CoBrA artists’ association. But while at first glance Damps has little in common with the heroic works of the “post-war” era, they develop their own abstract quality in the process of creation.
Andrea Damp’s works are created in a slow, time-consuming process in which she applies aqueous solutions of acrylic paint to the canvas step by step and layer by layer. Different consistencies of the paint interact with each other, and the result is checked after each drying step. There is a constant dialogue with art history, with composition and color theory playing an important role. The influences range from Jackson Pollock’s gestural feats of strength to the works of the CoBrA artists’ association. But while at first glance Damps has little in common with the heroic works of the “post-war” era, they develop their own abstract quality in the process of creation.