Courtesy of Alina Maria Schutte.
Last week, SLEEK Art celebrated the opening of a new exhibition by the Berlin-based artist Alina Maria Schütte at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. The artist arrived in style in a Lexus shuttle to present Bilder Einer Ausstellung — a vibrant and atmospheric showcase of her most recent abstract paintings. Guests were welcomed by the Blechbläser-Quintett of Berlin’s Symphony Orchestra, who played the promenade from Modest Mussorgsky’s Bilder Einer Ausstellung composition. Fellow artist Lee Negris introduced Schütte’s paintings, which highlight a preoccupation with texture and the material qualities of the medium that her work is known for. According to the artist, the large-scale paintings represent “the small, fleeting moments” of her life which manifest on canvas as waves of movement and colourful spatters of energy.
Photographer Al Browne captured the highlights from the evening:
The opening of Alina Maria Schütte's "Bilder Einer Ausstellung" at Berlin's Waldorf Astoria
You can find a selection of Alina Maria’s work available for purchase here.