Lilla von Puttkamer (born 1973 in Düsseldorf) is a contemporary German-Hungarian painter. Her work includes painting, drawing and performance. She lives and works in Berlin.
Von Puttkamer studied architecture at the Academy for Fine Arts in Budapest and then painting at the Academy for Fine Arts in Münster.
Von Puttkamer is a figurative painter. Her work features hazy, sometimes blurred images that are cast in a melancholy light. Her pictorial language integrates Color Field painting, a casually expressive style, as well as the coarse appearance of fresco painting, The distance she creates between her imagery and the outside world evokes an „iconology of the interval“ (Aby Warburg). Inner and outer worlds merge to form an interspace where subjects and their representation are ever in a state of flux.
2013: one, no one, hundredthousend, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
2013: Wandering, Foundation Burg Kniphausen
2012: About foxes, operas, and chairs, secondhomeproject temp. XI, Berlin
2011: double forest floor, with O.Oefelein, Kunstverein 2025, Hamburg
2010: Grass divers, Gallery Antje Wachs, Berlin
2009: A world of its own, Kunstverein Aurich
2008: forest visitors, with M.Sudhues, Lada project, Berlin
2007: About the ability to celebrate, Kunstbüroberlin, Berlin
2006: Xauen, Gallery Körnerpark, Berlin
2006: Gilgameschin, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
2014: Painting and drawing, Steglitz Museum, Berlin
2014: The grand illusion, Centrum Hungaricum Berlin
2014: Collecting in the North, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
2013: Make art, KunstHalle Deutsche Bank, Berlin
2013: w.t., Video with K.Bößer, Winter festival Sarajevo, Bosnien-Hercegovina
2012: Recommendation, gallery Anna Klinkhammer, Düsseldorf
2011: Fazebuk, Elektrohaus Hamburg
2011: collective show, Los Angeles, USA
2008: Intercity Berlin-Praha, Gallery am Festungsgraben, Berlin
2008: Gilgameschin, Internat. Theater and Performance Festival, Erewan, Armenien
2007: Intercity: Berlin-Praha, Gallery Manes, Prague, Czech Republik
2007: Young Hungarian art, Landdrostei, Pinneberg/Hamburg
Prizes and residencies
2014: Sarajevo Winterfestival Prize, Bosnien-Hercegowina
2007-2008 artist residency Hooksiel
2005: artist residency Venasques, Aldegrever society for printing
2001: DAAD Prize, Budapest
Literature and catalogues
Lilla von Puttkamer Wanderung, Vice Verca Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-932809-72-9
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (Hrsg.): Die grosse Illusion, Berlin 2014
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (Hrsg): Nahe Ferne, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039695-3
Malutki, Lilla von Puttkamer und Andreas von Klewitz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 3-938285-09-5
