Karin Kneffel

Karin Kneffel (*1957, Marl, Germany) is one of the leading contemporary German painters worldwide. Born in the western region of Germany, known as the Ruhr area, Karin Kneffel began her artistic career focusing on the post-war architecture of her homeland. Her master studies with Gerhard Richter led her to embrace new techniques and innovative subjects at the time, highlighting her small-scale animal portraits and monumental fruit paintings. Karin Kneffel’s works are characterized by her photorealistic technique and her use of intense, bright colors. In her paintings, Kneffel achieves a visual balance between proximity and distance. By using photorealistic painting techniques detached from their traditional contexts, Kneffel creates perfectly constructed impossible scenarios. By superimposing and recombining events, places and objects, she creates multidimensional realities that challenge the complex relationships between image, space and time.

The works by Karin Kneffel are part of numerous international collections such as FRAC Normandie, Rouen; Kunsthalle Bremerhaven; Museu Berardo, Lisbon; Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden; Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Stuttgart; Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt; Miettinen Sammlung, Berlin; Sinclair House, Bad Homburg.