Magdalena Maatkare (*1988 in Langenargen, Germany) studied at the Sorbonne Paris, the ENS LYON (École Normale Supérieure) and the UDK Berlin. She has been raised up in several cultures: Germany (Berlin), France (Paris) and West Africa (Dakar, Abidjan). Since 2017 she works and lives in Berlin.

She has been presented in numerous international exhibitions ex. the Goethe Institut Dakar, Galerie Petra Lange Berlin, Goethe Institut Venice, Art3f Salon International Monte Carlo Monaco, Kunsthaus Caserne Friedrichshafen, Van Gogh Art Gallery Madrid etc.

With her very own technique of textile collage with waxprint fabric she creates in each artwork an energetic, powerful explosion of colour. The artist' focus lays on the mutual cultural understanding: as textile is a symbol of culture for her, she creates with innumerable textile particles re-unified assemblages. Her contribution to mutual cultural acceptance through her artwork is realised in an active African- European collaboration: she receives the waxprint-textiles from tailors in West-Africa and shares a part of the art sale in return.

VITA

2021 Artist in Residence (EL Valle, Dominican Republic)
2019 Artist in Residence (Dakar, Senegal)
2016 Artist in Residence (Dakar, Conakry, Abidjan, Westafrica)
2015 Graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon and Universität Fribourg 
2012 Graduate of the Sorbonne, Paris

SOLOEXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2021 "The Sun rises again". Salon Nijinsky, Paris
2020 "Der Stoff aus dem Träume sind", Kunsthaus Caserne, Friedrichshafen
2019 "ME-TISSAGES", Galerie Petra Lange, Berlin, Germany
2019 „NEW WORKS“, Schygulla Salon, Berlin, Germany
2018 „Die Auferstehung des Phönix“, Gallery Voodoo, Berlin, Germany
2017 „Kulturelle Szenen aus Waxprint“, Afrika-Haus, Berlin, Germany
2017 „Scènes culturelles en pagne africain“, Goethe-Institut, Dakar, Senegal
2016 „Eine Reise durch West-Afrika“, Corosol Café-Gallery, Freiburg, Germany

GROUP – EXHIBITIONS (2020)
01/2020 – „Im Atelier entdeckt“, Galerie Petra Lange, Berlin
07/2020 – Venice International Art Fair, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice, Italy
07/2020 – „Summer Tracks“ – Programa Taide, Madrid, Spain
08/2020 – „Die Poesie der Horizonte“, Galerie Petra Lange, Berlin
08/2020 – SALONS - Magdalena Maatkare, Berlin
08/2020 – Art3f, Salon international, Monte Carlo, Monaco
09/-10/2020 - Van Gogh Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
10/2020 - SALONS - Magdalena Maatkare, Berlin