Galerie Guido W. Baudach is pleased to present the exhibition out of the blue by Tamina Amadyar. The exhibition at this year's Gallery Weekend Berlin marks the third solo show of the Berlin-based artist with the gallery.

Tamina Amadyar practices a new, unique kind of color field painting that is decidedly located in the contemporary context. On the basis of situational sketches, she translates biographical narratives and personal visual experiences into abstract image creations of various hues and formats. Her paintings are both reduced and color-intensive at the same time. Each work only has two colors. Amadyar mixes the paints herself, using pure pigment and a gelatin-like glue. The resulting material is not just characterized by an enormous luminosity. It also allows an exceptionally variable density of color - qualities the artist knows to use with virtuosity. Amadyar paints with always the same type of tool: a particular wide, flat brush that, like an extension of the artist’s body, transfers each of her movements to the transparent primed canvas. In this equally unmediated and controlled process, elements of calligraphy and dance intertwine. Physicality and tactile sensation are noticeably inscribed in the paintings. They are carrying the artist’s underlying experiences as abstractly encoded echos and create an open, broadly defined space in which the viewer’s own moods and perceptions can resonate.

Tamina Amadyar was born in Kabul in 1989. From 2008 to 2014 she studied painting at the Dusseldorf Art Acadamy. Since then she has participated in various exhibitions at home and abroad, e.g. Making Waves, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, 2019 (solo); The Big Dipper, Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca, 2019 (solo); It’s a match, Oldenburger Kunstverein, 2019 (solo); Big Blue Sky, Kunstverein Reutlingen, 2018 (solo); In medias res, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, 2018; Someplace Special, Gillmeier Rech, Berlin, 2018; 10.000 hours, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin (solo), 2017 (solo); Monday is a day between Sunday and Tuesday, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, 2017; Der Funke soll in Dir sein, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, 2016; Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, 2015 (solo). Since 2018 she is visiting professor for painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with a text by Andreas Prinzing.