Art is a Meditation

Carolin Rechberg, born in Starnberg, Germany, is a female artist specialising in the importance of cognitive and sensory learning, initiated through the encounter of the artistic process. She holds an Individualized BFA from the California College of the Arts, an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and an EdM in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Rechberg’s interdisciplinary body of work comprises of drawing, installation, painting, performance, poetry, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and sonic voicework. Rechberg has received numerous awards, artist residencies, and has been exhibited in Solo and Group Exhibitions, in Asia, Europe and the United States. Her work has been published online and in print, in magazines and international literature such as; Vogue, World of Interiors, House & Garden, Wired Magazine, Tatler, Hidden Treasures Art Magazine, Inspiration Art Book, and International Contemporary Masters XI. She places most value in the multi-sensory experience involved in the process of creating, the insights they generate and how these transfer to a way of life.

Rechberg states that “Alerting the senses through creating, is an opportunity to ground in the present moment. The art process, and the artwork, is a vehicle to harness instinct, stimulate creativity and gather awareness, through processing information and insight extending beyond the realm of art, emerging through heightened sense perception in the communion with the artistic process and the created artwork.

The artworks created become their own entities, embodying the history and knowledge of their own material; the experience which shaped, was learned during and through the artworks process; and the continued transformation of information in the exchange and changing encounter with me, you, and the environment.” carolinrechberg.com linkedin.com/in/carolinrechberg

Rechberg sees art as a meditation. “A mediation with life, a creation off and for existence.” She values the art process as a dialogue, a dance of intuitive, intentional and informed gesture, where the act of awareness, and understanding ensuing through creating art, is the highest reward of art itself.