Silke Otto-Knapp

Silke Otto-Knapp (b. 1970, Osnabrück, Germany, d. 2022, Pasadena, California) was an artist who had the construct of a stage at the centre of her works. Motifs ranged from choreographed groups of figures, historical stage sets, as well as pared-down landscapes. Otto-Knapp worked with watercolour on canvas using a process of removal and accumulation of pigment in order to create spaces where the flatness of the pictorial space intersects with an illusionistic construction of space.

For Liverpool Biennial 2018, Silke Otto-Knapp was commissioned to produce a new large-scale work for the fourth-floor gallery of Bluecoat. Like a classic frieze, the painting wrapped around the perimeters of the space, combining figures in group formations with abstract panels. The painting was accompanied by an artist’s book produced in collaboration with Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, which was displayed in the historic women’s common room at the Victoria Gallery & Museum.

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