Lot 7 - Felicitas Aga - The Spell

ARTIST INFO

About 

Felicitas Aga is a Norwegian painter whose work engages critically and playfully with the history of stillife painting. 
 
In her current practice, flat, sharply edged shapes are assembled to create surreal tableaux of colourful,carnivalesque figures. 
 
Her pictorial language borrows imagery from folktales, religious iconography and street art. 
 
Amongst other things, she is influenced by early 20th century Bauhaus artists such as Oskar Schlemmer (stereomantic figuration), Hans Bellmer, Hannah Hoech and Paul Klee. 
 
She employs decorative motifs such as flowers, patterns, domestic objects, embroidery, using a method of source gathering that reflects the unpredictability of the metropolitan existence, increasingly informed by digital media and other mixes of culturally diverse images. 
 
Stillife has played a central role in her work for years. 
 
She explores its secretiveness, its superficial harmlessness. 
 
She uses the vocabulary of the stillife freely, with a degree of abstraction. 
 
Ambiguity is key. 
 

Education 

Felicitas Aga recieved her MA in Fine Art Painting from Chelsea School of Art and Design,London in 1996. Previous to this she studied with Per Kirkeby at Staedelschule in Frankfurt, with Bruce McLean at the Slade in London and at Vestlandets Kunstakademi in Bergen, Norway. She holds the title Meisterschuelerin of Per Kirkeby. 
 
Felicitas Aga has had artists residencies in Amelia, Itay and at the Dolly Ginter Artists Center, Boca Raton,Fla. USA. 
 
She currently lives in Germany and England 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

Aga exhibits europewide. 
 
Key solo exhibitions include 
 
Heimafraa,Hardanger Kulturgalleri, Norway 2020 
 
Kobaloi, Peritechnon Gallery, Athens,2019 
 
Felicitas Aga, KKVHansa, Munich, Germany,2015 
 
Collaborations and group exhibitions 
 
include 
 
Notions of Shelter, Barbara Thumm Galerie, Berlin 
 
BYGG, Agatunet, Norway,2021, 
 
Snakemilk, Minkowski Space, London, UK, 
 
SKRIK, Modern Art Mosel KV, Germany,2020, 
 
Square Point Colour, Bumaga Gallery, London, ODDArT, Odda, Norway, 
 
fifty-fifty, Atelier Huth, Kronach, Germany, 
 
Crystals Plus, Polarraum, Hamburg, Germany, 
 
PULP Shipton Gallery, London, UK, 
 
British Painting II, Bermondsey Project Space, London,UK, 2019 
Naturrelikt und Kunstkonstrukt Grafikmuseum Bad Steben, Germany 2019 
Publications 
 
Kobaloi, catalogue, Peritechnon Gallery, Athens 2019, with an introduction by curator Kjell-Erik Ruud 
 
Absence and Imminence, catalogue, 2000, introduction by Dr. Eva-Maria Degen 

Gallery Representation 

Barbara Thumm Galerie, Berlin