ENCOUNTER– DIALOGUE
Paintings: Frauke Gloyer (D)     Ceramics: Kirsten Holm (DK)

Encounter is synonymous with coming together, meeting and getting
together. Two artists, Frauke Gloyer from Galmsbüll or Flensburg,
respectively, and Kirsten Holm from Hinnerup in Central Jutland, about 15
km northwest of Aarhus, met a few years ago for the first time and
immediately felt a deep connection. They got into conversation with each
other, exchanged their thoughts about life, nature, and art, talked, debated
and discussed.

This dialogue developed into the first joint exhibition in Per Kirkeby's studio
at the art festival on Læsø in 2019. This Danish island in the northern
Kattegat, which has just under 1800 inhabitants and is thus the most
sparsely populated municipality in Denmark, can be reached in 90 minutes
by ferry from Frederikshavn. And in one week in July, about 10,000 guests
have been coming since 2012 to enjoy and enrich themselves at the art
festival with exhibitions, lectures, music and much more, to discuss and
meet each other. As the initiator of this festival, Kirsten Holm received the
Culture Award of the Municipality of Læsø in 2019. Through this great
recognition shows how important this art festival is for the North Jutland
island.

With this exhibition, the Künstlermuseum Heikendorf would like to invite its
visitors to discover and locate the artistic similarities between the painter
Frauke Gloyer and the ceramist Kirsten Holm.

Frauke Gloyer, born in 1961 in Flensburg, studied free painting at the
University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. She has been working as a
freelance artist since 1986. Initially, she had her studio in Niebüll/North
Frisia and since 2008, her works of art presented in many exhibitions are
created in Galmsbüll on the dike. The painter finds her motifs in the North
Frisian landscape. "The vast 'barren' mudflats with its sky-mirrored residual
water and a few food-seeking waterfowl become, through her color
sensitivity, a pictorial treasure which is unparalled." (Dr. Frauke Lühning).
Pictures of the Schleswig-Holstein open-air painters around 1900 already
influenced her in her childhood. Like these artists, Frauke Gloyer likes to
paint in nature directly in front of the picture occasion right before her eyes.
She sits outside in any weather with her oil paints, canvases or hardboard and captures the incomparable light of this landscape, its moods and also
its animals. Wide views and what is seen up close become a 'feast for the
eyes'. Since 1994, Frauke Gloyer belongs to the group of North German
Realists, with whom she received the Art Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein
Economy in 2013 after the group's retrospective at the Landesmuseum
Schloss Gottorf.

Kirsten Holm, born in 1946, is as fascinated by nature as Frauke Gloyer.
In her ceramic works, she is looking for tracks of the ephemeral nature.
The ceramicist often uses a find from the sea, such as an eroded oyster
shell, a fossilized hedgehog or an eye-catching stone, as the starting point
for her elaborate processing of the clay down to the last detail. A kind of jug
is created on the turntable, its surface treated in many ways. Lines are used
by Kirsten Holm as a continuation of traces in her found object. In order to
come as close as possible to nature's color palette, she mixes all the hues
herself and then burns her works in muffles, containers that she fills with
carefully selected burning material. "With this burning method, I want to give
my works an additional organic expression," the artist says. Finally, the
found object is incorporated into the ceramic form as a 'lid'. Nature and artcombined to form a whole.

Kirsten Holm has participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad
and has been supported by the Statens Kunstfond, among others. Her
works are represented, among others, in Denmark's Grimmerhus Ceramics Museum and the Berlin Ceramics Museum. In 2012, Queen Margrethe was
presented with two of her ceramic works along with a catalog as a gift when
she visited the Danish Ceramic Museum.

Sensitive interpretations of nature of a painter and a ceramicist meet in this
exhibition and between their works develops a commonality and a
communication, across all borders, that we can listen to with pleasure.

A catalog of Frauke Gloyer is available (only in German, 30 Euro).