Elena Kolbasina is a Germany-based artist, originally from Kirgisistan. She received her certification as a Master student of Professor K.H. Hödicke from UdK University of the Arts in Berlin in 2008 and MFA from New York Studio School in 2010 where she studied with Graham Nickson, Bruce Garnier and Stanley Lewis. Her work is in the private collection of Gerard Louis-Dreyfuss. She has received the Schulz-Stübner-Prize Award for Painting, the DAAD (German Exchange Service) Scholarship and the LCU Foundation Scholarship.
Kolbasina´s latest body of work consists of mostly large-scale paintings. She is interested in how color creates space, and how space can be manipulated through color to be open, compressed or complex. Through the movement of color and lines, space can become very intimate. Each of Kolbasina’s paintings has its own life, it’s never a copy of a previous one. There is an entire process in following the painting’s instructions, and waiting until the painting is willing to talk to the painter, to inform the painter where it wants to go or to be. During the painting‘s process she discovers some elements or creatures which appear on the canvas. Every stroke changes the energy and movement in the painting and every moment is different. This process is what makes painting fascinating and complex.
Kolbasina´s latest body of work consists of mostly large-scale paintings. She is interested in how color creates space, and how space can be manipulated through color to be open, compressed or complex. Through the movement of color and lines, space can become very intimate. Each of Kolbasina’s paintings has its own life, it’s never a copy of a previous one. There is an entire process in following the painting’s instructions, and waiting until the painting is willing to talk to the painter, to inform the painter where it wants to go or to be. During the painting‘s process she discovers some elements or creatures which appear on the canvas. Every stroke changes the energy and movement in the painting and every moment is different. This process is what makes painting fascinating and complex.
