Biography
Andrea Michaela Weiss (1977) is Münster based artist with an MA in arts and cultural studies. From 1994 to 1997, Andrea M. Weiss worked in a framing studio as an apprentice for individual framing of artworks and learned to work with different materials. After graduating from high school, she moved to Bremen, and from 2003 to 2009, she studied at the University of Bremen.
From 2018 to 2022, Andrea M. Weiss organized 11 solo exhibitions in Germany and participated in more than 15 group exhibitions on-site and online in Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. In 2020 and 2021, she exhibited her artworks at NordArt – one of Europe's largest exhibitions and the most important contemporary art event in North Germany - Kunstwerk Carlshütte.
Artistic Style
Andrea M. Weiss is an abstract painter. Her focus is large-format, colorful, expressive paintings. Her favorite medium is acryl on canvas; for applying paint, she uses a wire brush, trowel, foil, brushes, rollers, and much more. Paint on canvas is applied in several layers; sometimes, some layers are removed or repainted. Painting and putting colors together for her is very intuitive and creative - the artworks are made almost unconsciously. This dynamic process reflects the artist's current emotional world - her paintings are created with emotions to convey and bring out emotions in viewers. Finally, each work is encased in a shadow gap frame made of steel. Furthermore, for the last five years, she has worked on her meaningful art project Flash for empathy – a series of large-format abstract paintings with the main concept focusing on the artist's creative work. At her solo exhibition at the Art Platz Gallery in Riga, nine paintings from this series are displayed, created in 2019 – 2022.
Interesting Facts
Andrea has been painting since childhood, and in 1985, when she was eight, she participated in a famous German TV show for kids Die Sendung mit der Maus (The Broadcast with the Mouse), where she drew a picture for a message in a bottle.
