- Year of birth, place
- 1953, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
- Role at the ZKM
- in the collection
- Biography
- Ika Huber was born in Freiburg in 1953. She studied (1973-80) at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, under Peter Dreher and Georg Baselitz. Since 1980 she has lived in Freiburg and Munich.
Huber's work as a painter and as a graphic artist is characterized by the relation between the clear, gestural quality of her brush and the overall composition of each image. Of particular significance are the glowing colours, applied very carefully in many layers and determining the character of the individual elements within each image. Huber evolves her motifs out of plant and floral forms, landscapes or buildings and interior spaces, and constructs these as sweeping lines and layers of colour that often intertwine or interweave. Within Huber's oeuvre, painting, prints and other works on paper retain an equal importance.
Individual exhibitions (selection)
1983 »Neue Bilder«, Kunstverein Freiburg
1985 »Ornat«, Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt, Frankfurt/M
1987 »Robinia Pseudoakazia«, Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhardt, Frankfurt/M; »Monotypien«, Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe
1991 Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, subsequently at Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
1993 »Trosso Ercolaneo«, Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe
1995 »1985-1994, Bilder und Zeichnungen«, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1996 »Bilder und Zeichnungen«, Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe
1997 »Vines«, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/M
Group exhibitions (selection)
1982 »Malerei«, Anette Gmeiner, Kirchzarten
1985 »5 Deutsche«, Wim van Krimpen, Amsterdam
1986 »Momente der Urbanität«, Kunstverein Braunschweig; »Säulen - Columns«, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen-Bachern
1990 »Zeichnung«, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
1991 »Gullivers Reisen«, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Frankfurt/M
1995 »TAG UM TAG = 30 JAHRE«, Kunstverein Freiburg
[Frauke Syamken, 1997]
