Pola Brändle (born April 7, 1980, in

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

, Germany) is a German

collage Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...

/ decollage artist who lives and works in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

Kreuzberg Kreuzberg () is a district of Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough located south of Mitte. During the Cold War era, it was one of the poorest areas of West Berlin, but since German reunification in 1990 it ha ...

, Germany.

Life

Brändle grew up in

, and, after graduating from high school, she joined the

Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht Institute of Arts, formerly known as the Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht (Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design) and the Stadsacademie voor Toegepaste Kunsten (City Academy of Applied Arts), is a cluster of visual arts educat ...

, where she earned her

Bachelor of Design A Bachelor of Design (B.Des. or B.Design) degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree in the field of design awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. It is the undergraduate equivalent of the Master of Design, ...

in 2003. Brändle's final work at the

was supported by the "TENT Academy Award" (Rotterdam) together with nine other nominationsExhibition TENT Academy Award, Contemporary Art and Spirits(CAS), Osaka, Japa

/ref> as best final works in the Netherlands. During her studies Brändle developed her artistic photographic potentials and discovered the fascination of posters and their artistic opportunities for further editing. After living in

Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most dens ...

and

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

, Brändle moved to the Mediterranean island of

Mallorca Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bal ...

. In 2012 Bränlde returned to Berlin

, where she now lives and works.

Work

Brändle follows in the footsteps of the affichistes working with posters from her immediate environment but also collecting material on her travels which provide the bases of her time- and culture-specific artworks. Her work involves both small fragments and large-scale pieces ranging between pop art and abstraction.

Exhibitions (selection)

This is a table of exhibitions of Pola Brändle * 2018: Kunststation Kleinsassen, Kleinsassen, Germany * 2017: Alte Feuerwache - project room, Berlin, Germany * 2016: Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany * 2016: Hotel de Rome (

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), Berlin, Germany * 2015/16: Sunnubraut, Island Biennial, Gardur, Island * 2015: RDKM, Yalova Biennial, Istanbul & Yalova, Turkey * 2014: Kunstetage K55, Heilbronn, Germany * 2014: MMG Gallery, Budapest, Hungary * 2013: City Museum, Yalova, Turkey * 2010: CoCA - Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, US

Literature

* Brändle, Pola: „Plakatief – A World in Layers“; Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld;

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