Christine Dumbsky

Christine Dumbsky

Exhibitions

Kultur Jahrmarkt Würzburg - February 1993
Atelier Leisse, Würzburg - November 1996
Galerie De Arte, Bonn - February 1997
Intercom Würzburg – May 1997
Georg von Opel-Haus, Würzburg - July/
September 1997
Bayerischer Hof, Würzburg - September 1997
CompuTeam, Würzburg - December 1997
Galerie de Rocco, Berlin - January 1998
Tiergartenhotel, Nürnberg - March 1998
Agnello, Fürth - April 1998
Taborsky Motorcycle, Kitzingen - May 1998
Art is an island, Artgroup Paradox, Helgoland - August/September 1998
Art fair, Elfershausen - September 1998
Grundig Musical Halle A, Fürth - October 1998
Gallery Hurshman, Colorado, Whitewater,
October - November 1998
Projekt HS, Volkach March - October 1998
Snowboardcup, Kaprun - November 1998
Hotel Posthorn, Scheinfeld May - August 1999
Arte Erotic, Enkheimer Kunstraum Frankfurt July 1999

Christine with her painting "I'd rather go blind"


Permanent Exhibitions

Blattl’s Comfort Aparthotel, Frankfurt, Munich
Gallery Raum & Kunst, Hamburg
Enkheimer Kunstraum, Frankfurt


TV

RTL "Guten Abend RTL" 6/97
MDR "Indiskret" 8/97,9/97
Offener Kanal Kassel 10/97
TV-Touring, Würzburg 12/97
TV 1, Schweinfurt 1/98
SAT.1, 2/98
ORF, "Lust und Liebe" 6/98
BR 3, "Bayern Life" 9/98
Franken TV, 11/98
TV Touring, Schweinfurt 6/99
TV Touring, Würzburg 6/99

On the Radio

Bavarian Radio, B1 3/98
Bulgarian National Radio 6/98
HR XXL 6/99

Christine in her studio

upcoming Exhibitions/Performances

23.7.-25.7. New York/Rome
Woodstock Revival Festival, Performance und Exhibition
28.08.-05.09.99 Funkausstellung Berlin - Internet Live Performance/Exhibition
18.09.-19.09.99 Artfair Hammelburg

...at work

Internet-Exhibitions

New York Direct
Pro7 - Liebe Sünde
Lusthome
Bild.de
Top.de
Kunstverein Leimen
Gut the Artgallery Sweden
Cyber Art Gallery Eidhoven
Artgate
The Massurrealist Society
Artists of the world
Phenomenal Woman Of The Web
The Human Figure In Art And Photography
Sonoma State University, California, Women Artist Archive
Honor member of China Huacui Artist Community, China
.... and many more ....

Press-Review:

Kultur-Online 12/97:
Erotic art on the internet - isn't it just a bait for a voyeuristic audience seeking sexual sensation instead of erotic art works ? Christine Dumbsky presents a fascinating kaleidoscope of today's women rather than impressions from a peep-show. "Whores, Saints, Heroes, Homebodies" is the title of her special exhibit in our gallery.

It is surely no coincidence that two of the most renowned artists and painters of erotic art, Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, grew up at the end of the last century in the prudish atmosphere of the Austrian capital, Vienna. Out of this climate of repression grew Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory as well, which placed sexuality at the centre of human conflict. Today, on the eve of the 21st century, erotic art remains the dirty stepchild of nearly all genres of the graphic arts.

Erotic art is only one of Christine Dumbsky's genres of painting. Perhaps this distinction is a false one, betraying more about our -- still -- prudish culture, which labels all art in which nakedness appears as 'erotic', than about Christine's motives. You will search in vain for portrayals of crude sex acts in her art work. Indeed, the 29-year-old ascribes eroticism a subordinate role in her painting. Visitors of our special exhibition will no doubt also get the impression that 'the female' and not ' male erotic' forms the leitmotif of her painting. The women in her paintings are complex and contradictory: self-confident yet shy, anxious yet vivacious, self-sacrificing yet dominating, and passionate though detached. It is a rebuff to the cliché: Women are neither whores nor saints, neither heroes nor homebodies.

In any case, photo-realistic and symbolically rich character of her work not only fascinates the observer emotionally, but it also provides a small chronicle of our times.

these paintings will be seen at the ART WALL in New York

 

These paintings (Title: 24:7, Treat her like a lady)
will be shown in original at the ART WALL at the Woodstock Revival Festival 1999 in New York/Rome

 

Woodstock One World 1999

Penthouse 1/98:
"The Internet as a gallery"
Who thinks canvas, brush and colours are computer's enemy or at least an antiquated ancestor, has judged precipitate, because the artist Christine Dumbsky proves, that the old and the new media goes together quite well.

Neue Revue 4/98
"Erotic via Mouse click"
Exceptional - and in this case probably unique, because many of these paintings show the artist herself.

Honkong News 6/98
Christine is an artist, her aesthetic work relates to the erotic and is suitable for couples to see

Visit Christine's Webgallery