Maja BEHRMANN
Germany
Maja BEHRMANN was born 1994 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She studied Book Design and Graphic Design at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. She then studied Painting and Print- Making at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig in the class of Christoph Ruckhäberle. In 2020, she spent a year abroad at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon.
BEHRMANN’s oeuvres consist of a growing collection of shapes through which she takes up the challenge of putting together a repertoire of forms that she expands through their relationship with each other. She combines them, cuts into them, or dyes them. Behrmann avoids restricting herself to one medium, using sculptures, textiles, and prints in equal measure.
These seemingly simple basic forms are becoming complex figurations that invoke relationship patterns. What goes together how, and where lie previously invisible lines of relationship that become visible through overlappings and omissions?
Maja BEHRMANN held her solo exhibition at Galerie EIGEN+ART Leipzig, Germany in 2023, and was invited to exhibit at Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts, Germany in 2022. She is also a scholar of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung since 2017 and in 2018, she was awarded the Birknerpreis of the Birkner-Stiftung for her publication „Fundus und Flexion“. Moreover, in 2019, she received the study award of the Friends of the HGB and Sparkasse Leipzig for “Auszüge aus Katalog der Vielen“.