Justine Otto

Otto was born in Poland. In 1983, she moved to Germany. Between 1997 and 2000, she worked as a stage designer at the Municipal Theatre Frankfurt. In 1996, she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main, and was a master student in professional free painting, where she studied with Peter Angermann and Michael Krebber. In 2003, she graduated.[1] Otto lives in Hamburg and Frankfurt.

The central theme of her work are adolescent people and their feelings. Otto leaves its protagonists, mostly young girls, make puzzling actions. Otto takes a neutral observer position and confronts the viewer with the process of growing up. By soft merging into one another light and shadow zones interrupted by harsh color accents, it produces a strong vitality. This creates body landscapes that their characters a strong authenticity.[2]

• 2005: Volker-Hinniger Prize[3]
• 2005: nominated for the Ernst Schering Foundation Art of the Ernst Schering Foundation[4]
• 2011: Winner of the Art Prize of the Lüneburg Regional Association[5]

• 1997: portico, Frankfurt
• 2001: Darmstadt Secession at the Mathildenhöhe / Darmstadt
• 2002: Exhibition Hall, Frankfurt am Main
• 2003: Städel, Frankfurt am Main
• 2006: Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
• 2007: Kunstverein Aschaffenburg
• 2009: Collection Rusche, Schloss Corvey
• 2009: Collection Rusche, Museum Abbey Liesborn
• 2010: Bomann Museum
• 2011: Kunsthalle Darmstadt
• 2011: Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle / Saale
• 2011: Museum Schloss Gifhorn
• 2012: Jesuit Church Art Gallery, Aschaffenburg

• Interview at Elemmental (Spanish)