Maria Rapela – Visual Artist and Photographer
Berlin-based artist. Her work deals with the tensions of identity, the mystery of being, with and together with others in this world. Her most commonly used techniques: painting, drawing, printmaking, animation or photography.
Foto ©Maria Rapela Yesterday I was at the New National Gallery Museum (Neuenationalgalerie) in Berlin and it’s the first time I’ve been there since its reopening. The museum was closed for renovations from 2015 until last summer 2021. The current temporary exhibition is by American artist Barbara Kruger, known for her political and feminist art […]
Dayanita Singh in the Gropius Bau, Berlin. Copyright ©Maria Rapela, 2022 Title of the exhibition: Dancing with my cameraFrom March 18 to July 7, 2022Gropius BauNiederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin Last Friday, the exhibition of the Indian photographer Dayanita Singh opened at the Gropius Bau in Berlin and I was there. The intersection between photography, […]
I had the opportunity to attend Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition at the Gropius Bau Museum in Berlin.I knew very little about her and her career, and it was very interesting to learn about her most important facets as an artist. She was born in 1929 in Japan, and studied art in the city of Kyoto. In […]