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Helen von Burg | THE PERSISTANCE OF PAINTING
THE PERSISTANCE OF PAINTING
14 June – 5 July 2025
in cooperation with
see you next tuesday, Basel
Yasmin Alt
Felix Becker
Helen von Burg
Christian Henkel
Laura Mietrup
Angelika Schori
Herbert Warmuth
Hendrik Zimmer
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Helen von Burg
Born 1959 in Fribourg, CH
Lebt und arbeitet in Basel
In her artistic practice, Helen von Burg works with the reverberations of colors in the room and aims to promote a relationship between the pictorial object and its surroundings. Color and rhythm are the main protagonists, where hue, material, technique, and size vary. Just as different as the dimensions of the colored areas, are the contrasts between unlikely color combinations. Depending on the changing perspective in the space, pictorial elements begin to vibrate, thus creating plasticity and evoking mental afterimages.
Without repeating herself, quoting, or copying her own work, the artist remained true to her approach and her artistic practice. With a love for experimentation, curiosity and a passion for the diversity of textile materials, she constantly develops new approaches and creates works that seek new, unmistakable forms in shape, structure, and effect.
"Pictures are manifested and condensed perceptions of reality. I do not create a world of forms and illusions, but of forces. It is about an inexplicable reality, a dynamic force, a great silence, a timeless stream of movement that makes itself known when you turn inward. Each picture develops its own rules. Overlapping rhythms and color tones lead to ambiguous situations. The conscious experience of simultaneity, relativity, and contradictions challenges and attracts me. Art fascinates when it is filled with power and intuition." (Helen von Burg, 2023).
Helen von Burg trained at the Basel School of Design, and studied painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She also trained as a theatre painter at Stadttheater Basel. While studying in Milan, she was awarded the art prize of the R. & M. Bleyler Foundation, Basel. Apart from multiple solo and group exhibitions, she has been awarded public art projects and is represented in numerous private and public art collections.
