In the studio of her uncle Werner Holz, an outstanding German artist, Birgit Hüttemann-Holz was exposed to Imaginary Realism/ Phantastische Malerei from early age on. Intrigued by the contradictions of the human psyche she first started to write poetry.
While working as a Physical Therapist, she went to study literature, philosophy and media science at the University of Karlsruhe and Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany.
A sudden move to the US triggered an end to her writings. A universal language was needed- a visual form that moved her words beyond the limitations of translations and geography. It was'nt long before she discovered the ancient Greek practice of encaustic painting.
Huttemann-Holz has exhibited in London, Istanbul, Karlsruhe, New York, Santa Fe, Detroit.
She was awarded Finalist of the International Portrait Competition, Society for Art of Imagination, UK (2011), Invitation to the Biennale Florence, Italy ( 2011), Best of Show, Platform Award, OK (2013) and won multiple awards nationwide.
Birgit Huttemann-Holz lives and works in Detroit.
Awards:
Best of Show. National Platform Award. Paseo Originals Art Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK, Juried, 2013
Artsland Showcase Winner second round/March, 2013
Second Place. Urban Edge, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI, Juried, 2013
Artslant Showcase Winner, Sixth round/November, 2012
Artslant Showcase Winner. Fourth round/July,2012
Honorable Mention, WAX National Encaustic Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, Juried, 2012
Honorable Mention, Where the Wild Things Art, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI, Juried, 2012
Best of Show. Urban Edge, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI, Juried, 2012
Artslant Showcase Winner. First round/Januar 2012
Best Of Show. Our Rivers Our Lakes, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI, Juried, 2011
Artslant Showcase Winner. Sixth round/November, 2011
Artslant Showcase Winner. Forth round/July, 2011
Finalist of the International Portrait Competition, 2011. Society for Art of the Imagination, UK, London, Juried, 2011
Stipend Recipient. “Stand in the Place Where you Live” Collective enterprise of Chelsea Center for the Arts& Legacy Land Conservancy, 2011
Artslant Showcase Winner. Third round/May, 2011
Third Place. Fire and Ice, Grosse Pointe Art Center GP, MI, Juried, 2011
Artslant Showcase Winner. Second round/March, 2011
Second Place. The Green Show, Grosse Pointe Art Center, GP, MI, Juried, 2011
Honorable Mention. Resolution, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI. Juried, 2011
Artslant Showcase Winner. (5th round/September), 2010
Invitation to Biennale Florence, Italy
Second Place. Humor Me. Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI. Juried, 2010
Artslant Showcase Winner. (2nd round/February), 2010
Talentseekers Top 100. Place 27 out of 4500 artists from 85 countries, 2009/2010 , http://www.talentseekers.net/awards2009_2010.php
Third Place. The Green Show, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI. Juried, 2010
Honorable Mention. World Art Expo 09, Master Competition, Brea, CA. Juried, 2009
Honorable Mention. The Body Eclectic, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI. Juried, 2008
Second Place. Michigan State Fair, Detroit, MI. Juried, 2006
Solo Exhibitions:
2014 "The Truth lies Elsewhere", spring, Paseo Originals Art Gallery ,Oklahoma City, OK
2013 "Between Heaven and Earth:, Oct 5- Nov 15, River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte,MI
2011 "Affairs with Serpants and HeroINES, (3 women show), River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2009 "Wherever you are", encaustic paintings, Gallery at the Unitarian Church Birmingham Bloomfield, Mi
2008 "Come Away with Me" encaustic paintings, GPAC (Grosse Pointe Art Center), Grosse Pointe, MI
2007 Paintings in oil and encaustic, Doan Residency, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2013
USA Encaustic, June 26-July 20, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL (juried)
BBAC Alumni, May3-june 6, BBAC Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI (invitational)
Finalist Platform Award Exhibition, Feb 28- March 29, Paseo Originals Art Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK, (juried) Best of Show
Pure Genius, Jan 18- Feb 28, Art at the Edge Gallery, Wyandotte,MI
Urban Edge, Jan 18- Feb 28, Grosse Pointe Art Center, MI (juried) Second Place
2012
4731 Invitational 2012, Oct 14-November 28, 4731 Gallery, Detroit, Mi (invitational)
Nature Speaks, October 22- November 28, Madonna University, Detroit, MI (juried)
Man Up- No Balls about it !, July 12- August 9, The Duderstadt Gallery, University of Michigan, MI (juror: Suzy Lake)
Mixed Media, June 29- July 30, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (juried)
Michigan Fine Arts Competition, March 30- May 4, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI (juried)
Wax, March 25- May 13, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (juried) Honorable Mention
Where the Wild Things Art, March 9- April 14, Grosse Pointe Art Center,Mi, (juried) Honorable Mention
Hommage. Feb 17- March 1, River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, Mi (invitational)
Urban Edge, Jan 20- Feb 25, Grosse Pointe Art Center, MI (juried) Best of Show
2011
Stand in the Place Where you Live, Chelsea Center for the Arts, Chelsea, MI (juried)
Affairs with Serpents and HeroINES, (3 women show), River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI (invitational)
Our Rivers Our Lakes, Grosse Pointe Art Center, MI (juried) Best of Show
4731 Invitational 2011, 4731 Gallery, Detroit, MI (invitational)
Word Play, GPAC, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried)
4731 Gallery, Detroit, Mi (invitational)
Fire and Ice, Grosse Pointe Art Center, MI, (juried) Third Place
Artexpo New York 2011, New York City, NY
The Green Show, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried) Second Place
Artexpo Istanbul, March, Istanbul, Turkey
Playing with Fire, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ (juried)
Resolution, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried) Honorable Mention
2010
Balance, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, Mi
Ray Johnson & A Book About Death, SAL Gallery,CW Post Campus, LIU, Brooksville, NY
Balance, The Reflection Gallery, Finnlandia University, Hancock, MI,
Balance, River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
Humor Me, Grosse Pointe Art Center, MI (juried) Second Place
Balance, The Duderstadt Gallery, Universtity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Exploring the Triptych, National Encaustic Exhibition, LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE (juried)
Fifty Years Fantastic, La Galleria Pall Mall, Trafalgar Square, London, UK (juried)
All American Tour, Las Vegas, NV (invitational)
The Green Show, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried) Third Place
Opening Exhibition of the International Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey (invitational)
The Body Eclectic, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale MI (juried)
2009
All American Tour, Miranda Galleries, Laguna Beach, CA (invitational)
Ben Franklin Project, 555 Gallery @4731 Gallery, Detroit, MI
Divine, Chalk Farm Gallery, Santa FE, NM (invitational)
Imagine, National Encaustic Exhibition, Elderstreet Gallery, Houston, TX (invitational)
Embedded Light, National Encaustic Exhibition, GPAC, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried)
A Book about Death, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York City, NY (invitational)
Small Show, DAM Detroit Artist Market, MI (invitational)
Modern Art Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
World Art Expo, Brae, CA (invitational) Honorable Mention
Home, Gallery at the Duderstadt Center, Ann Arbor, MI (juried)
Wherever you are, encaustic paintings, Solo exhibition, Gallery at the Unitarian Church Birmingham Bloomfield, MI
The Body Eclectic, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale MI (juried)
Art On the Move, GPAC, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried)
2008
Come away with me, featured artist, GPAC (Grosse Pointe Art Center), Grosse Pointe, MI
Students of Clinton Snyder, BBAC (Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center), MI (invitational)
Our Rivers Our Lakes, GPAC, MI (juried)
Ben Franklin Project, Gallery 555, Detroit, MI (juried)
The Body Eclectic, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI (juried), Honorable Mention
2007/2006
Continued Education, CCS College for Creative Studies, Detroit (juried)
The September Event, Gallery 555, Detroit (invitational)
Avantgarde, GPAC, Grosse Pointe (juried)
Golden Medal, Athletic Club, Detroit, (juried)
Golden Medal, Scarab Club, Detroit (juried)
Our Rivers Our Lakes, GPAC, Grosse Pointe (juried)
Michigan State Fair, Detroit (juried), Second Place
Continued Education 2004-2012
CCS College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, USA, 2004-07
BBAC Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, USA, 2005-09
IEA International Encaustic Artists, Carmel, CA , USA, Lecture: Tony Scherman, 2010
Paula Roland , Advanced Encaustic Monotype, Santa Fe, NM, 2012
Studies abroad 2010
Summer Academy for the Arts, Marburg, Germany, Prof. Andras Enszt, Hungary
Publications:
Contemporary Painters, Schiffer Publishing, 2012
Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, SOMArts Cultural Center, Catalogue 2011
Interview with Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Feb.2011, Neoconartist blogspot.com, 2011http://theneoconartist.blogspot.com/2011/02/interview-with-birgit-huttemann-holz.html
Musetouch, Feb 2011, featured artist, online fine art magazine, 2011
Whoople, Feb 2011, artist interview, fine art blog, 2011
Collaboration for fine art set decor with Next Films, Inc. of New York City, NY, 2010
Cover Art for: I broke up with my Haiku, Craig Boehman, and ISBN 10: 1450545491, 2010
"Who is who 2010", Domain Verlag, Leipzig , Germany, ISBN 978-3-9813474-1-8, 2010
"Worldartfoundation Masters", Umbrella Publishing, Orange County, CA, 2009
TV Appearances:
"Art", Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Oxford TV, MI, 2013
"Art and Design", Birgit Huttemann-Holz, WMTV5, Nov.19 and 22, 2009
"The John Proust Show ", Birgit Huttemann- Holz& Bonnie Delsener, GPAC, WMTV5, Oct.6, 2009
Birgit Huttemann-Holz
Silent Poetry in Encaustic (beeswax, pigments, fire)
Bio, Birgit Huttemann- Holz
In the studio of her uncle Werner Holz, an outstanding German artist, Birgit Hüttemann-Holz was exposed to Imaginary Realism/ Phantastische Malerei from early age on. Intrigued by the contradictions of the human psyche she first started to write poetry.
While working as a Physical Therapist, she went to study literature, philosophy and media science at the University of Karlsruhe and Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany.
A sudden move to the US triggered an end to her writings. A universal language was needed- a visual form that moved her words beyond the limitations of translations and geography. It was'nt long before she discovered the ancient Greek practice of encaustic painting.
Huttemann-Holz has exhibited in London, Istanbul, Karlsruhe, New York, Santa Fe, Detroit.
She was awarded Finalist of the International Portrait Competition, Society for Art of Imagination, UK (2011), Invitation to the Biennale Florence, Italy ( 2011), Best of Show, Platform Award, OK (2013) and won multiple awards nationwide.
Birgit Huttemann-Holz lives and works in Detroit.
Awards:
Best of Show. National Platform Award. Paseo Originals Art Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK, Juried, 2013
Artsland Showcase Winner second round/March, 2013
Second Place. Urban Edge, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI, Juried, 2013
Artslant Showcase Winner, Sixth round/November, 2012
Artslant Showcase Winner. Fourth round/July,2012
Honorable Mention, WAX National Encaustic Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, Juried, 2012
Honorable Mention, Where the Wild Things Art, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI, Juried, 2012
Best of Show. Urban Edge, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI, Juried, 2012
Artslant Showcase Winner. First round/Januar 2012
Best Of Show. Our Rivers Our Lakes, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI, Juried, 2011
Artslant Showcase Winner. Sixth round/November, 2011
Artslant Showcase Winner. Forth round/July, 2011
Finalist of the International Portrait Competition, 2011. Society for Art of the Imagination, UK, London, Juried, 2011
Stipend Recipient. “Stand in the Place Where you Live” Collective enterprise of Chelsea Center for the Arts& Legacy Land Conservancy, 2011
Artslant Showcase Winner. Third round/May, 2011
Third Place. Fire and Ice, Grosse Pointe Art Center GP, MI, Juried, 2011
Artslant Showcase Winner. Second round/March, 2011
Second Place. The Green Show, Grosse Pointe Art Center, GP, MI, Juried, 2011
Honorable Mention. Resolution, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI. Juried, 2011
Artslant Showcase Winner. (5th round/September), 2010
Invitation to Biennale Florence, Italy
Second Place. Humor Me. Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI. Juried, 2010
Artslant Showcase Winner. (2nd round/February), 2010
Talentseekers Top 100. Place 27 out of 4500 artists from 85 countries, 2009/2010 , http://www.talentseekers.net/awards2009_2010.php
Third Place. The Green Show, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI. Juried, 2010
Honorable Mention. World Art Expo 09, Master Competition, Brea, CA. Juried, 2009
Honorable Mention. The Body Eclectic, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI. Juried, 2008
Second Place. Michigan State Fair, Detroit, MI. Juried, 2006
Solo Exhibitions:
2014 "The Truth lies Elsewhere", spring, Paseo Originals Art Gallery ,Oklahoma City, OK
2013 "Between Heaven and Earth:, Oct 5- Nov 15, River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte,MI
2011 "Affairs with Serpants and HeroINES, (3 women show), River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2009 "Wherever you are", encaustic paintings, Gallery at the Unitarian Church Birmingham Bloomfield, Mi
2008 "Come Away with Me" encaustic paintings, GPAC (Grosse Pointe Art Center), Grosse Pointe, MI
2007 Paintings in oil and encaustic, Doan Residency, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2013
USA Encaustic, June 26-July 20, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL (juried)
BBAC Alumni, May3-june 6, BBAC Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI (invitational)
Finalist Platform Award Exhibition, Feb 28- March 29, Paseo Originals Art Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK, (juried) Best of Show
Pure Genius, Jan 18- Feb 28, Art at the Edge Gallery, Wyandotte,MI
Urban Edge, Jan 18- Feb 28, Grosse Pointe Art Center, MI (juried) Second Place
2012
4731 Invitational 2012, Oct 14-November 28, 4731 Gallery, Detroit, Mi (invitational)
Nature Speaks, October 22- November 28, Madonna University, Detroit, MI (juried)
Man Up- No Balls about it !, July 12- August 9, The Duderstadt Gallery, University of Michigan, MI (juror: Suzy Lake)
Mixed Media, June 29- July 30, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (juried)
Michigan Fine Arts Competition, March 30- May 4, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI (juried)
Wax, March 25- May 13, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (juried) Honorable Mention
Where the Wild Things Art, March 9- April 14, Grosse Pointe Art Center,Mi, (juried) Honorable Mention
Hommage. Feb 17- March 1, River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, Mi (invitational)
Urban Edge, Jan 20- Feb 25, Grosse Pointe Art Center, MI (juried) Best of Show
2011
Stand in the Place Where you Live, Chelsea Center for the Arts, Chelsea, MI (juried)
Affairs with Serpents and HeroINES, (3 women show), River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI (invitational)
Our Rivers Our Lakes, Grosse Pointe Art Center, MI (juried) Best of Show
4731 Invitational 2011, 4731 Gallery, Detroit, MI (invitational)
Word Play, GPAC, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried)
4731 Gallery, Detroit, Mi (invitational)
Fire and Ice, Grosse Pointe Art Center, MI, (juried) Third Place
Artexpo New York 2011, New York City, NY
The Green Show, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried) Second Place
Artexpo Istanbul, March, Istanbul, Turkey
Playing with Fire, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ (juried)
Resolution, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried) Honorable Mention
2010
Balance, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, Mi
Ray Johnson & A Book About Death, SAL Gallery,CW Post Campus, LIU, Brooksville, NY
Balance, The Reflection Gallery, Finnlandia University, Hancock, MI,
Balance, River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
Humor Me, Grosse Pointe Art Center, MI (juried) Second Place
Balance, The Duderstadt Gallery, Universtity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Exploring the Triptych, National Encaustic Exhibition, LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE (juried)
Fifty Years Fantastic, La Galleria Pall Mall, Trafalgar Square, London, UK (juried)
All American Tour, Las Vegas, NV (invitational)
The Green Show, Grosse Pointe Art Center, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried) Third Place
Opening Exhibition of the International Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey (invitational)
The Body Eclectic, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale MI (juried)
2009
All American Tour, Miranda Galleries, Laguna Beach, CA (invitational)
Ben Franklin Project, 555 Gallery @4731 Gallery, Detroit, MI
Divine, Chalk Farm Gallery, Santa FE, NM (invitational)
Imagine, National Encaustic Exhibition, Elderstreet Gallery, Houston, TX (invitational)
Embedded Light, National Encaustic Exhibition, GPAC, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried)
A Book about Death, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York City, NY (invitational)
Small Show, DAM Detroit Artist Market, MI (invitational)
Modern Art Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
World Art Expo, Brae, CA (invitational) Honorable Mention
Home, Gallery at the Duderstadt Center, Ann Arbor, MI (juried)
Wherever you are, encaustic paintings, Solo exhibition, Gallery at the Unitarian Church Birmingham Bloomfield, MI
The Body Eclectic, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale MI (juried)
Art On the Move, GPAC, Grosse Pointe, MI (juried)
2008
Come away with me, featured artist, GPAC (Grosse Pointe Art Center), Grosse Pointe, MI
Students of Clinton Snyder, BBAC (Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center), MI (invitational)
Our Rivers Our Lakes, GPAC, MI (juried)
Ben Franklin Project, Gallery 555, Detroit, MI (juried)
The Body Eclectic, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI (juried), Honorable Mention
2007/2006
Continued Education, CCS College for Creative Studies, Detroit (juried)
The September Event, Gallery 555, Detroit (invitational)
Avantgarde, GPAC, Grosse Pointe (juried)
Golden Medal, Athletic Club, Detroit, (juried)
Golden Medal, Scarab Club, Detroit (juried)
Our Rivers Our Lakes, GPAC, Grosse Pointe (juried)
Michigan State Fair, Detroit (juried), Second Place
Continued Education 2004-2012
CCS College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, USA, 2004-07
BBAC Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, USA, 2005-09
IEA International Encaustic Artists, Carmel, CA , USA, Lecture: Tony Scherman, 2010
Paula Roland , Advanced Encaustic Monotype, Santa Fe, NM, 2012
Studies abroad 2010
Summer Academy for the Arts, Marburg, Germany, Prof. Andras Enszt, Hungary
Publications:
Contemporary Painters, Schiffer Publishing, 2012
Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, SOMArts Cultural Center, Catalogue 2011
Interview with Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Feb.2011, Neoconartist blogspot.com, 2011http://theneoconartist.blogspot.com/2011/02/interview-with-birgit-huttemann-holz.html
Musetouch, Feb 2011, featured artist, online fine art magazine, 2011
Whoople, Feb 2011, artist interview, fine art blog, 2011
Collaboration for fine art set decor with Next Films, Inc. of New York City, NY, 2010
Cover Art for: I broke up with my Haiku, Craig Boehman, and ISBN 10: 1450545491, 2010
"Who is who 2010", Domain Verlag, Leipzig , Germany, ISBN 978-3-9813474-1-8, 2010
"Worldartfoundation Masters", Umbrella Publishing, Orange County, CA, 2009
TV Appearances:
"Art", Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Oxford TV, MI, 2013
"Art and Design", Birgit Huttemann-Holz, WMTV5, Nov.19 and 22, 2009
"The John Proust Show ", Birgit Huttemann- Holz& Bonnie Delsener, GPAC, WMTV5, Oct.6, 2009
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