About
„It is a fundamental principle of Magdalena Cichon’s work not to offer any ultimate signs – neither to herself nor the viewer. Continually, new constellations between color, shape and texture arise. As a viewer, we quickly realize that we are not entitled to any secure knowledge or distinct recognition. Magdalena Cichon works with what is unexpected and volatile; her strategy relies on the potential of coincidence as well as her conscious interventions.“
Angelika Steinmetz-Oppelland, Art historian
Magdalena Cichon graduated in the Painting and Textile Arts Class at Burg Giebichenstein Halle in 2014. Her mostly figurative paintings are researching anthropological constants, as well as human differences – with bodies and their various expressions via shape, posture, and movement, serving as symbols for the range of what it means to be human.
EDUCATION
2015-2019
Ph.D. studies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Faculty of Art and Design
Title: How Can Art Be Research? Intuitive Reflexion and Philosophic Daoism in Painting
2014
Diploma of Painting and Textile Art at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design
Title: hazard material
2007-2014
Studies of Painting and Textile Art at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design
2010-2013
B.Sc. in Scientific Psychology at FernUniversität Hagen
ARTISTIC WORK
SELECTED ONE-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2022
BBKarium, BBK Sachsen-Anhalt e.V., Halle
2017
PARACAS, Stadtwerke Jena, Jena
2016
FEDYA, Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt, Halle
RONYA, Huber & Treff Gallery, Jena
2015
DUNYA, Art Foundation Saxony-Anhalt, Halle
2014
hazard material, Villa Rosenthal, Jena
hazard material, Diploma exhibition, Gallery of Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design, Halle
2013
ANIMUS, Gallery Queen Anne, SpinnereiGalleries, Leipzig
BAHAMOUT, Huber & Treff Gallery, Jena
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Little Piece of, Galerie Intershop interdisciplinaire, SpinnereiGalleries, Leipzig, Germany
2021
Hegel Now!, Uni Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
2020
Art Fair REA! Fair, Milano, Italy
60 Days Lockdown Life, Luxelakes A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
2019
Tba, Juntels Binjiang Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
2018
Rot Rot Rot, Galerie Intershop interdisciplinaire, SpinnereiGalleries, Leipzig, Germany
International Pleinair-Symposium, Kunsthandlung Huber & Treff, in Kooperation mit
Galerie 113, Castelnaudary, France
2017
Malen. Weben. Wirken, Gallery Intershop interdisciplinaire, SpinnereiGalleries, Leipzig, Germany
International Pleinair-Symposium, Huber & Treff Gallery, Jena, Germany
2016
Preview WAND / BILD / TEXTIL, Studio S, Berlin, Germany
International Pleinair-Symposium, Huber & Treff Gallery, in cooperation with Museum Ein Harod, Kibbutz Ein Harod, Israel
2015
Hängung #1, GersonHöger Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
22ND FEDERAL COMPETITION – Art Students Display Their Work, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
2014
Art Fair Berliner Liste 2014, Berlin, Germany
International Pleinair-Symposium, Huber & Treff Gallery, in cooperation with Beit Jala Municipality, Beit Jala, West Bank, Israel
2013
Art Fair Berliner Liste 2013, Berlin, Germany
2012
Wettiner Schule, Villa Bösenberg, Leipzig
2011
International Pleinair-Symposium, Huber & Treff Gallery, in cooperation with Gallery 113, Castelnaudary, France
2010
ping pang means ping pong, Chengdu, China
ARTISTIC PROJECTS
2020
Creative Minds Project, in cooperation with MUK Design, London, United Kingdom
2019
Artistic Residency, Juntels Binjiang Hangzhou, Hangzhou, China
2017
Sprungturm-Festival, Hoffart Theater, Darmstadt, Germany
2012
envia.M Kunstkalender, in cooperation with Ondrej Atelier for Lithography, Leipzig, Germany
2010
Saxony-Anhalt on Expo 2010, Shanghai, China – a cooperation of Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle, with Goethe Institute Shanghai and Fissler China
PUBLICATIONS
2014
hazard material (diploma thesis)
PUBLICATIONS (CONTRIBUTIONS)
2016
Grenzgänger – Winners of the Jenacon Foundation Art Prize
MAGDALENA CICHON – Monography
2015
22. FEDERAL COMPETITION – ART STUDENTS DISPLAY THEIR WORK – accompanying catalogue