Petra Rös-Nickel was born 1963 in Wathlingen near Celle, Germany. After studying fashion design at the professional school for clothing in Bremen, 1980, she changed her field of study to architecture in Eckernförde in 1982. Preferring the creative aspects of the studies to the technical ones, the artist developed the basics of her painting, never denying the roots of applied design and soon ending in a refreshing, distinctive style.
Since Petra Rös-Nickel shapes her painting into compositional subjects, her work can be put into different visual categories such as “patchwork”, “windows” and “oscillating lines”. As much as the groups may differ in their aesthetic expression, the artist‘s distinctive characteristics and methods remain cohesive.
Working in both an additive and reductive process, Rös-Nickel builds and removes layers from the surface of each canvas to present panes of color that appear in both the foreground and background. This manipulation of space through color challenges the viewer’s perception of depth. These scratchings and rubbings lead to various elements of tension, such as “patchwork” or harmonious-contemplative forms, which she calls “windows”. Mostly established on large tables of colors and directed towards one color world, the artist‘s oil paintings develop an energetic impact on the space they‘re displayed in, conveying her joy of life and self-confidence.
Working in both an additive
and reductive process, Petra Rös-Nickel builds and removes layers from the
surface of each canvas to present panes of color that appear in both the
foreground and background. This manipulation of space through color challenges
the viewer’s perception of depth. Her work can be put into different visual
categories such as “patchwork”, “windows” and “oscillating lines.” As much as
the groups may differ in their aesthetic expression, the artist‘s distinctive characteristics
and methods remain cohesive.
Rös-Nickel was born in 1963 in
Wathlingen near Celle, Germany. After studying fashion design at the
professional school for clothing in Bremen, in 1980, she changed her field of
study to architecture in Eckernförde in 1982. Preferring the creative aspects
of her studies to the technical ones, the artist developed the basics of her
painting, never denying the roots of applied design and ending in a
refreshing, distinctive style.
Petra Rös-Nickel’s original paintings merge playful forms, bright colors, and architectural compositions in oil and mixed media on canvas. Her
contemporary artworks contain rich textures and patterns, referencing popular
European textile designs of the fifties and sixties. Rös-Nickel’s work
translates the geometric and organic elements of an era that hoisted the flags
of modernism and which, due to a trend to return to a rather retro style, has
become topical once more. Mostly established on large tables of colors and
directed towards one color world, the artist‘s oil paintings develop an
energetic impact on the space they‘re displayed in, conveying her joy of life
and self-confidence.
Rös-Nickel’s abstract geometric textured artworks have been exhibited and
collected worldwide, including in Germany, Belgium, USA, Canada, Singapore and
Hong Kong. Notable collectors include Chris Rock.
EXHIBITIONS
2023-24- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- Affordable Art Fair Brussels, Belgium
- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- Affordable Art Fair Stockholm, Sweden
- Paper Position Berlin, Germany
- Art on Water, Hamburg, Germany
- Art Karlsruhe, Germany
- Position Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
- Love Always Wins, Atlanta, US
- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- Art on Water, Hamburg, Germany
- Art Innsbruck Internationale Kunstmesse, Austria
- Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, US
- Position Berlin Art Fair, Germany
- Lille Art Fair, France
- Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, US
- Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
- Art up Lille, Lille, France
- Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg, Germany
- ARTe Wiesbaden, Germany
- Affordable Art Fair Battersea, UK
- Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
- First Art Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Luxemburg Art Fair
- Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt, Germany
- Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Germany
- Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Affordable Art Fair London, UK
- Antwerp Art Fair Groningen, Netherlands
- Art Cannes Groningen
- Affordable Art Fair New York, US
- Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
- Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, US
- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- AFF New York, US
- Forest Gallery, West Sussex, UK
- Art Hamptons, NY, US
- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- AFF Hong Kong
- Affordable Art Fair New York, US
- Kunstwarenhaus Zurich, Switzerland
- Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, US
- Affordable Art Fair Singapore
- Love Art Fair Toronto, Canada
- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- Affordable Art Fair New York, NY, US
- Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, US
- LA Art Show, Los Angeles, US
- Red Dot Art Fair Miami, US
- Art Toronto | Fine Art Fair, Canada
- Houston Fine Art Fair, US
- Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles, US
- Ostsee Galerie Timmendorfer Strand, Germany
- Affordable Art Fair Brussels, Belgium
- Kunstwarenhaus Zurich, Switzerland
- Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Art&Galerie Minden, Germany
- Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Germany
- Wiener Internationale Kunstmesse, Vienna, Austria
- Galerie Jaeschke, Braunschweig, Germany
- Ostsee-Galerie Timmendorfer Strand, Germany
- e-on | Avacon, Lueneburg, Germany
- Galerie Nottbohm, Goettingen, Germany
- Galerie Jaeschke, Braunschweig, Germany
- PoGa Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
- Bond-Galerie 3, Schloss Rantzau, Barmstedt, Germany
TV & FILM
- American Gigolo, Showtime
- American Housewife, Season 5
- LA’s Finest, Fox
Working in both an additive
and reductive process, Petra Rös-Nickel builds and removes layers from the
surface of each canvas to present panes of color that appear in both the
foreground and background. This manipulation of space through color challenges
the viewer’s perception of depth. Her work can be put into different visual
categories such as “patchwork”, “windows” and “oscillating lines.” As much as
the groups may differ in their aesthetic expression, the artist‘s distinctive characteristics
and methods remain cohesive.
Rös-Nickel was born in 1963 in
Wathlingen near Celle, Germany. After studying fashion design at the
professional school for clothing in Bremen, in 1980, she changed her field of
study to architecture in Eckernförde in 1982. Preferring the creative aspects
of her studies to the technical ones, the artist developed the basics of her
painting, never denying the roots of applied design and ending in a
refreshing, distinctive style.
Petra Rös-Nickel’s original paintings merge playful forms, bright colors, and architectural compositions in oil and mixed media on canvas. Her
contemporary artworks contain rich textures and patterns, referencing popular
European textile designs of the fifties and sixties. Rös-Nickel’s work
translates the geometric and organic elements of an era that hoisted the flags
of modernism and which, due to a trend to return to a rather retro style, has
become topical once more. Mostly established on large tables of colors and
directed towards one color world, the artist‘s oil paintings develop an
energetic impact on the space they‘re displayed in, conveying her joy of life
and self-confidence.
Rös-Nickel’s abstract geometric textured artworks have been exhibited and
collected worldwide, including in Germany, Belgium, USA, Canada, Singapore and
Hong Kong. Notable collectors include Chris Rock.
EXHIBITIONS
2023-24- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- Affordable Art Fair Brussels, Belgium
- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- Affordable Art Fair Stockholm, Sweden
- Paper Position Berlin, Germany
- Art on Water, Hamburg, Germany
- Art Karlsruhe, Germany
- Position Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
- Love Always Wins, Atlanta, US
- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- Art on Water, Hamburg, Germany
- Art Innsbruck Internationale Kunstmesse, Austria
- Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, US
- Position Berlin Art Fair, Germany
- Lille Art Fair, France
- Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, US
- Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
- Art up Lille, Lille, France
- Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg, Germany
- ARTe Wiesbaden, Germany
- Affordable Art Fair Battersea, UK
- Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
- First Art Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Luxemburg Art Fair
- Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt, Germany
- Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Germany
- Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Affordable Art Fair London, UK
- Antwerp Art Fair Groningen, Netherlands
- Art Cannes Groningen
- Affordable Art Fair New York, US
- Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
- Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, US
- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- AFF New York, US
- Forest Gallery, West Sussex, UK
- Art Hamptons, NY, US
- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- AFF Hong Kong
- Affordable Art Fair New York, US
- Kunstwarenhaus Zurich, Switzerland
- Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, US
- Affordable Art Fair Singapore
- Love Art Fair Toronto, Canada
- Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, US
- Affordable Art Fair New York, NY, US
- Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, US
- LA Art Show, Los Angeles, US
- Red Dot Art Fair Miami, US
- Art Toronto | Fine Art Fair, Canada
- Houston Fine Art Fair, US
- Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles, US
- Ostsee Galerie Timmendorfer Strand, Germany
- Affordable Art Fair Brussels, Belgium
- Kunstwarenhaus Zurich, Switzerland
- Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Art&Galerie Minden, Germany
- Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Germany
- Wiener Internationale Kunstmesse, Vienna, Austria
- Galerie Jaeschke, Braunschweig, Germany
- Ostsee-Galerie Timmendorfer Strand, Germany
- e-on | Avacon, Lueneburg, Germany
- Galerie Nottbohm, Goettingen, Germany
- Galerie Jaeschke, Braunschweig, Germany
- PoGa Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
- Bond-Galerie 3, Schloss Rantzau, Barmstedt, Germany
TV & FILM
- American Gigolo, Showtime
- American Housewife, Season 5
- LA’s Finest, Fox