{"id":39628,"date":"2024-11-05T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/?page_id=39628"},"modified":"2025-03-13T00:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:47:50","slug":"information-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/en\/exhibitions\/archive\/helma\/information-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Galerie Poll has played a part in HELMA\u2019s artistic journey since the 1970s. To celebrate her eighty-fifth birthday in May 2025, the Berlin artist is presenting paintings spanning multiple decades in our Schaulager under the title \u201cDreamworlds\u201d. Following this initial solo exhibition, the gallery will showcase HELMA\u2019s work through the <em>re:discover<\/em> program at art karlsruhe 2025 (February&nbsp;20th\u201323th).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HELMA\u2019s paintings are deeply connected to surrealism, art brut, and magical realism. They tell of dreams, fairy tales, and visions, evoking a sense of the boundless and the profound. Their beholders encounter snakes coiling around stark branches, or crosses and flaming wreaths amidst tree roots and ladders stretching skyward. Bounteous blossoms, tangled vines, and thorns, along with hearts, are recurring motifs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often rendered in vibrant reds and blues, her scenes are executed with obsessive precision in oil. Her paintings blur the line between inner and outer worlds, dreams and reality, creating a poetic beauty where a hint of menace seems to loom. Inspired by Thomas Bernhard\u2019s poetry and Franz Kafka\u2019s narratives, some of HELMA\u2019s works also contain autobiographical reflections. They defy straightforward interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HELMA\u2019s paintings are profoundly immersive: \u201cOne gazes at them and is involuntarily drawn in \u2013 like Alice falling into the rabbit hole, which ultimately reveals itself as the gateway to Wonderland. A Wonderland likewise un<a><\/a>folds in HELMA\u2019s works, filled with snakes, trees, cats, roots, mushrooms, flames, ladders, and wreaths. With their striking colours and meticulous detail, these elements create a magnetic pull and an unmistakable signature.\u201d (Matthias Ehlert in <em>art karlsruhe magazine<\/em> 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HELMA<\/strong> was born on 8th May 1940 as Helma Hartmann in Berlin, where she passed away on 10th March 2025. From1959 to 1961, she trained as a technical draftswoman at the Berlin Vocational School. In 1964 she married artist Wolfgang Petrick; their daughter Nina was born in 1965. HELMA began painting in 1974 and adopted her artist name that same year. Her works have been exhibited in galleries, art associations, and museums worldwide. HELMA\u2019s pieces are held by distinguished private and public collections, including the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection in Berlin, the Jutta and Manfred Heinrich Collection in Maulbronn, and the Artothek of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galerie Poll has played a part in HELMA\u2019s artistic journey since the 1970s. To celebrate her eighty-fifth birthday in May 2025, the Berlin artist is presenting paintings spanning multiple decades in our Schaulager under the title \u201cDreamworlds\u201d. Following this initial solo exhibition, the gallery will showcase HELMA\u2019s work through the re:discover program at art karlsruhe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":39624,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"ausstellen-text.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39628","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41465,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39628\/revisions\/41465"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poll-berlin.de\/galerie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}