Past
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Golden Triangle Print at the IFPDA Print Fair
I am delighted to announce that a print of my Golden Triangle Series is on view at the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, booth C23 of Burnet Editions. 27 - 30 Mar 2025 Read more -
Ackland Museum
I’m happy to share with you that my work Stripes Nr. 78 is featured at Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill, in their current exhibition through March 9. 8 Jan - 11 May 2025 The exhibition shows artworks from the museum's permanent collection to illustrate the history of blue pigments in art, from 3000 BC to the newest blue pigment, YInMn, discovered in 2009.
For more information about the museum and the exhibiton, please visit:
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NeueHouse, New York
I am delighted to announce that my work is currently exhibited at NeueHouse, 110 East 25th Street, New York. 1 May 2024 - 10 May 2025 For more information about NeueHouse, a private work and social home for creative and professional progress, please visit https://www.neuehouse.com/houses/madison-square/ Read more -
Counterpoint at Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
I am thrilled to announce that my work will be included in the exhibition Counterpoint at Cristea Roberts Gallery, London 19 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 Counterpoint surveys abstract art spanning over 70 years and features 15 artists, including Bridget Riley and Josef Albers. On view will be my set of eight prints, Golden Ratio Series, which focuses on a linear depiction of the golden ratio to create rectangular blocks of related colors. Read more -
Golden Ratio print at the IFPDA Print Fair
I am delighted to announce that a print of my Golden Ratio Series is on view at the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, booth 304 of Burnet Editions. 27 - 29 Oct 2023 The Golden Ratio Series reflects on the mathematical principles of the golden ratio and continues my focus on the linear depiction of the golden ratio in my Stripes paintings.
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Salon: The Value of Art
I am happy to announce my participation in the upcoming panel discussion "The Value of Art" at 1014 Space for Ideas in New York 28 Sep 2023 Curated by Claudia Mahler, the discussion offers perspectives from five panelists in the field of visual art. Christine Wächter-Campbell (owner Winston Wächter Fine Arts, New York and Seattle), Cornelia Thomsen (artist), Markus Dochantschi (owner studioMDA), Maya Varadarj (artist), and Franklin Parrasch (owner Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York and Los Angeles) will discuss views, price tags and how art is a business.
Thursday, September 28, 2023
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
At 1014 Space for Ideas
1014 5th Avenue New York, NY, 10028
To register, please click the following link: https://www.1014.nyc/events/salon-value-of-art Read more -
Being - Mom is a Woman
Women artist group show at Root-K Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan 29 Apr - 27 May 2023 Read more -
The Golden Ratio Series
Exhibition at Deutsches Haus at NYU, New York 18 Apr - 16 Jun 2023 Deutsches Haus at NYU presents “Cornelia Thomsen: The Golden Ratio Series,” an exhibition of my new body of work, The Golden Ratio Series. The series consists of 8 aquatints in the primary colors red, blue, yellow, as well as black and white. The prints reflect on the mathematical principles of the golden ratio and continue my focus on the linear depiction of the golden ratio in my Stripes paintings.
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
Golden Ratio Series, 2023
Aquatint on Hahnemühle paper, edition of 12
Paper size 27½ x 21½ in. (69.5 x 54.5 cm)
Plate size 18 x 12 in. (45.5 x 30 cm) Read more -
Exhibition at the Residence of the German Consulate General, New York
22 Feb - 21 Apr 2023 Read more -
Unfolding Ratio
26 Aug - 24 Sep 2022 I am thrilled to announce my third solo exhibition with Kashima Arts in Tokyo, in their new gallery √K Contemporary (Root K Contemporary)
Unfolding Ratio will present my minimalist black-and-white GR series, my NFT collection based on my Stripes paintings, a series of portraits, and Garden watercolors, placing my different fields of work in context. Read more -
Waves of Color: Exhibition in Wainscott / East Hampton
Group exhibition with Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Kikuo Saito, and Friedel Dzubas. On view until September 4th, Tuesdays-Sundays 12-5pm, at 372 Montauk Highway, Wainscott / East Hampton, NY 9 Aug - 4 Sep 2022 Leslie Feely gallery Group exhibition with Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Kikuo Saito, and Friedel Dzubas. On view through September 4th, Tuesdays-Sundays 12-5pm, at 372 Montauk Highway, Wainscott / East Hampton, NY gallery@lesliefeely.com Read more -
The Joy of Blue
11 Apr - 31 May 2022 Leslie Feely gallery Group exhibition with Sam Francis, Kikuo Saito, Kenneth Noland, Friedel Dzubas, Adolph Gottlieb, and Robert Motherwell. On view by appointment at 1044 Madison Avenue, New York gallery@lesliefeely.com Read more -
Cornelia Thomsen: The Collective Self
4 - 28 Apr 2022 Presented by the German Consulate General New York and organized in collaboration with the Deutsches Haus at NYU, “The Collective Self” presents my abstract works in dialogue with recent portrait paintings. Each of the series on display, from the abstract Stripes and the Structures compositions to the portrait series 'Anna,'... Read more -
"Quieter than Silence"
3 Mar - 12 Apr 2022 Group show / Art project at Venetia Initiatives, Greenwich Street, New York March 3 - April 16, 4-7 pm by appointment: venetiaadvisory@icloud.com Curated by Venetia Kapernekas (thoughts on Albert Camus) P r e s e n t i n g Anna Conway Shirine Gill Marius Glauer Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias... Read more -
Garden: Urgency and Resilience
20 Feb - 20 Mar 2022 Solo exhibition at Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming February 21 - March 20, 2022 Thomsen started work on Garden -her first major series-in 2005, when she was taking her first steps on a journey away from artisanal representation toward the fully realized abstraction seen in much of her later work.... Read more -
Women, Politics, and Art
Presented by the German Consulate General in New York and 1014-Space for Ideas 25 Mar 2021 Art, politics, and gender are deeply intertwined as art is inevitably a product of specific socio-political contexts. Governmental censorship and political interference even more so affect the experience of women living in societies in which there is no freedom of artistic expression, to create, or to distribute diverse cultural expressions.... Read more -
Panel Discussion "What Remains: Art and Remembrance"
Event takes place on November 8, 2019 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm at the Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, New York 8 Nov 2019 Deutsches Haus at NYU and NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies present a panel discussion among Carol Kahn Strauss, former International Director of the Leo Baeck Institute; artists Petra Senn and Cornelia Thomsen; and DAAD Visiting Scholar at Deutsches Haus at NYU Angela Zumpe, as part of the conference... Read more -
Seminar at CUNY Graduate Center
September 26, 2019, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York 26 Sep 2019 'The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 30 Years of Reflection on aspects of life in East Germany and the changes wrought by the Mauerfall' is a seminar presented by the University of Freiburg and Friends of Freiburg University, and hosted by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the... Read more -
Kunst 18 Zuerich
24th International Contemporary Art Fair, Zuerich, Switzerland 25 - 28 Oct 2018 ABB Hall 550, Zürich-Oerlikon Felix Ringel Galerie - Booth B7 kunstzuerich.ch Read more -
Imagery, Narrative, Propaganda: Artists in the German Democratic Republic
Talk at the Annenberg School of the University of Pennsylvania 24 Sep 2018 I am excited to share with you that I have been invited to give a talk at the University of Pennsylvania entitled Imagery, Narrative, Propaganda: Artists in the German Democratic Republic, in conjunction with the exhibition of GDR prints from the Monroe Price and Aimée Brown Price collection. It would... Read more -
Stripes and Structures II
Solo exhibition Stripes and Structures II at Kashima Arts, Tokyo, Japan 2 - 16 Jun 2018 Read more -
United Nations Association of New York lecture with artist Cornelia Thomsen
In honor of International Women's Day 2018, The Lasting Effects of the Berlin Wall on Women in Germany 12 Mar 2018 I am thrilled to share with you that I am invited to give a talk at the United Nations Association of New York on the lasting effects of the Berlin Wall on women in Germany, as a special lecture commemorating International Women's Day on Monday, March 12, 2018. Admission is... Read more -
Cornelia Thomsen STRIPES
Solo exhibition at Felix Ringel Galerie, Duesseldorf, Germany 8 Sep - 11 Nov 2017 Opening Reception September 8th, 6-9 pm Felix Ringel Galerie Eiskellerberg 1 DE-40213 Duesseldorf, Germany Read more -
CounterPointe 5
Group exhibition, new work by women choreographers and their collaborating artists, The Actors Fund Arts Center, Brooklyn 7 - 9 Apr 2017 The Actors Fund Arts Center, Brooklyn http://nortemaar.org/projects/counterpointe-5/ Read more -
Cornelia Thomsen - Strokes
Solo exhibition at Leslie Feely Gallery, New York 19 Oct - 15 Dec 2016 Leslie Feely Gallery 33 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065 Read more -
Stripes and Structures
Solo exhibition Stripes and Structures II at Kashima Arts, Tokyo, Japan 6 - 20 Jun 2015 Read more -
Hypocrisis, Pressures and Ironies of Life in Communist East Germany
Solo exhibition, German Consulate NYC, New York 6 - 28 Nov 2014 German Consulate NYC 871 United Nations Plaza (1st Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets) New York, NY 10017 Read more -
Stripes and Structures
Solo exhibition at Leslie Feely Gallery 10 Sep - 25 Oct 2014 Read more -
Abstraktion und Landschaft
Solo exhibition at the Friedrich-Froebel-Museum, Bad Blankenburg, Germany 28 Jun - 23 Dec 2014 Landschaft und Abstraktion - Cornelia Thomsen Friedrich-Froebel-Museum Johannisgasse 4 07422 Bad Blankenburg Germany https://froebel-museum.de/pages/posts/abstraktion-und-landschaft---cornelia-thomsen108.php Read more -
Stripe Paintings
Solo exhibition at Erik Thomsen Gallery, New York 14 Oct - 23 Nov 2011 Erik Thomsen Gallery, 23 East 67th Street Read more -
Nature's Reflections
Solo exhibition at Behnke & Doherty Gallery, Washington Depot 3 Oct - 15 Nov 2009 Read more -
Works on Paper
Solo exhibition at The International Art & Design Fair, New York 7 Oct - 11 Nov 2005 Read more
