Regine Schumann - feel color

ress Release, 28 March 2019
FEEL COLOR – Color as Event May4–July6,2019
New works by light artist Regine Schumann at Galerie Judith
Andreae, Bonn
With the exhibition FEEL COLOR light artist Regine Schumann
transforms the Bonn-based Galerie Judith Andreae into a
unique universe of color from May 4 to July 6, 2019 with her
new large-scale installations that make use of surprising
visual effects.
The artist layers and combines sheets of florescent acrylic
glass to form three-dimensional volumes. When they are
illuminated with black light the boundary between the
material and the immaterial begins to blur. For the exhibition
FEEL COLOR Regine Schumann creates a new kind of spatial
experience with light. Unusual is how her site-specific
installation employs alterations of different kinds of light —
daylight, artificial light, and black light — in rhythms that
flow, overlap, or flash like a stroboscope. The vibrating light
situation constantly changes the entire space — color
veritably begins to vibrate, and its luminosity and vitality are
experienced in heightened intensity.

Regine Schumann lives and works as a freelance artist in
Cologne. After studying painting at the Hochschule für freie
Künste Braunschweig she gradually moved away from
traditional image-making media, searching for a way to
redefine color. She began to illuminate architectural space
with volumes of color: “Because I come from a family of
miners, light played a special role in my biography. Maybe
you could say that I after all those years wanted to bring light
to the darkness.” The color com- binations and effects of
Schumann’s work are today still determined by painterly
considerations that draw on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s
theory of the sensory perception of color. The works foster a
sense of immersion and unbounded connection with color,
light, and space.
With exhibitions like Who’s afraid of glow (Galeria de Arte
Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid), colormirror (Dep Art Gallery,
Milan), enlight my space (Kunsthalle Bremen) und ¡dark!
(Lichtkunstzentrum Unna), Regine Schumann has been
showing on a national and international level for years. Her
works are part of the following collections, among others:
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne; Museum Ritter,
Waldenbuch; Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels; Sabadell
Foundation, Barcelona; Centrum Kunstlicht in de Kunst,
Eindhoven. Her work has been represented at national and
international art fairs including: ARCO Madrid, Art Cologne,
Art Miami, Art Toronto, Pan Amsterdam.
In parallel to her third solo exhibition at Galerie Judith
Andreae Regine Schumann is presenting two works from her
series farbrausch in the
exhibition Goethe – Verwandlung der Welt, which runs from
May 17 to September 15 at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn.
The opening of FEEL COLOR takes place on the May 3, 2019
Gallery Night from 6 pm to 12 am. The gallery magazine
essentials#15 is being published in conjunction with the
exhibition.