Pola Brändle

Pola Brändle (* April 7, 1980 in Aachen, Germany) is a German collage/decollage artist and photographer who lives and works in Berlin Kreuzberg, Germany.

Life

Brändle grew up in Aachen and after graduating from high school she joined the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts where she owned her Bachelor of Design in 2003. Brändle’s final work at the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts was supported by the "TENT Academy Award" (Rotterdam) together with nine other nominations ^[1] as best final works in the Netherlands. During her studies Brändle developed her artistic photographic potentials and discovered the fascination of posters and their artistic opportunities for further editing. After living in Portsmouth, Berlin and Lisbon, Brändle moved to the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. In 2012 Bränlde returned to Berlin Kreuzberg where she now lives and works.

Art

Pola Brändle at work in her studio

Brändle photographs and edits posters.^[2] She uses posters as a commodity, in order to create independent art works of its own kind.

The artist about her work: For more than a decade now, I dedicate myself to the creation of collages/decollages. On my travels, I collect posters of local events such as theatre plays, concerts, festivals and other cultural happenings that later form the basis of my works. But not any random posters - placards tanned by wind and weather, amateurishly attached to the walls of buildings and bridges, partly smudged or rotted ones that from city to city, country to country, continent to continent bear their very own hallmarks. Rain, sunlight and sometimes even human vandalism transform the original advertising into something new, something unique. I'm looking for exactly these excerpts to capture them in my collages/decollages holding them for eternity and creating a new unity, layer by layer.^[3]

Pola Brändle treats again, the subject of collage and décollage, interpreting it in a new manner. This is the way traditions are formed. She also uses the de-clarifying, the obscuring section, the near view preventing you from getting a grasp of the whole; an aesthetic intimacy bleeding into the uncontrollable poetic.[...] ^[4]

Like an archaeologist she is uncovering yesterday and preserving it for tomorrow ^[5]

Exhibitions (Selection)

This is a table of exhibitions of Pola Brändle

Literature

• Brändle, Pola: „Plakatief - A World in Layers“; Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld; ISBN 978-3-86678-484-0

Notes

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pola Brändle.

• Pola Brändle Webpage
• Pola Braendle's Blog
• Pola Braendle's Press Articles
• Pola Brändle at 3 Punts Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• Pola Brändle at Gallery Michael Nolte, Münster, Germany
• Pola Brändle at Gallery Simon Nolte, Malloca, Spain
• Pola Brändle at Edition Kerber
• Pola Brändle at Start your Art Gallery
• Pola Brändle at Gallery Saatchi Online