Elica Tabakova
Elica Tabakova was born in Bulgaria and studied architecture at the University of Hanover. She received an Erasmus scholarship for the Academy of Fine Arts in Seville and graduated in June 2011. She then taught at the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Arts in Hanover and, since 2019, at the Faculty of Architecture and Design in Constance.
To advance her career, she now lives and works in Munich as an architect and freelance artist.
Elica Tabakova Of course, it is the line that dominates Elica Tabakova's paintings. It runs through her works as a shaky stroke, an ink surface, or a fine line. The artist and architect has a special sense for contour and construction, for lightness and heaviness in space. Overhead lines and cranes stand here alongside photo snippets of archways and cloisters.
Her pictures bear witness to the inner landscape that has emerged from the dialogue with the architectural constructions. Melancholy is sublimated into movement when the contours of houses flow or tilt to the side as if they were alive. Color recedes into the background in many of her works. It is used sparingly and does not compete with the dominant black lines. The black ink and black charcoal paint is sometimes applied opaquely, sometimes in a grayish, cloudy manner. This is often complemented by opaque white and, at most, a little ochre or yellow. One exception is the flat, expressive red of the geisha and samurai.
»Her images bear witness to the inner landscape that has emerged from her dialogue with architectural structures. Melancholy is sublimated into movement as the contours of houses flow or tilt to the side as if they were alive. Color recedes into the background in many of her works. It is used sparingly and does not compete with the dominant black lines. The black ink and black charcoal paint is sometimes applied opaquely, sometimes in a grayish, cloudy manner. This is often complemented by opaque white and, at most, a little ochre or yellow. An exception is the flat, expressive red of the Geisha and Samurai series. It acts as a symbol of the strength of the woman warrior.
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Dr. Martina Kollroß
Werke
»…Sie lassen sich nicht einfach fassen, sie sind flüchtig, spontan und von einer starken Leidenschaft für das Moment-hafte geprägt. Insbesondere auf ihren Zeichnungen scheint sich das Dargestellte zu entziehen, läuft über den Bildrand, entschwindet in dem Moment, in dem es auf Papier gebannt wurde, bereits wieder. Hauptakteur ihrer Arbeiten ist der Strich, mal beherzt und raumeinnehmend, mal vibrierend, teils zart und zerbrechlich. Ein Spiel mit unterschiedlichsten Techniken und Materialien: Ob mit Kohle, Tusche, wasserlöslichen Stiften oder Fineliner, eben allem, was expressiven, spontanen Gestus zulässt, nähert sich die Künstlerin dem Dargestellten an, fängt sein Wesen ein, ohne es dabei zu entzaubern…«
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Selbst | Liebe #9
100 x 70 cm
Selbst | Liebe #79
100 x 70 cm
Selbst | Liebe #7
100 x 70 cm
geisha vol.2 #4
82 x 62 cm
geisha vol.2 #5
82 x 62 cm
Gleise #9
100 x 70 cm
Gleise #7
100 x 70 cm
Hafen #2
100 x 70 cm
Leerzeichen #7
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2025
HOUSE OF ART | Oberpollinger | Munich | group exhibition
artmuc art fair | galerie luzia sassen | group exhibition
Coart | Munich | solo exhibition
2024
INC art bodensee | galerie luzia sassen | group exhibition
artmuc art fair | galerie luzia sassen | group exhibition
SELECTION | galerie luzia sassen | group exhibition
2023
artmuc art fair | contact art design gallery & agency | group exhibition
2022
stadthausgalerie | sonthofen
group exhibition
art42 gallery | artmuc art fair | munich
group exhibition
artmuc gallery | euromotor | stuttgart
group exhibition
2021
artmuc art fair | munich
solo exhibition
artgerecht art fair | karlsruhe
solo exhibition
restart art fair | munich
solo exhibition
art42 gallery | INC art fair | hamburg
solo exhibition | one artist show
2020
art karlsruhe | artroom gallery
group exhibition
art42 gallery | artmuc art fair | munich
group exhibition
art42 gallery | discovery | frankfurt
group exhibition
restart art fair | munich
solo exhibition
2019
art karlsruhe | artroom gallery
group exhibition
affordable art fair hamburg | artroom
group exhibition
artmuc gallery | artmuc art fair | munich
group exhibition
gagalerie | munich
solo exhibition
art42 gallery | nachtbrötchen | düsseldorf
group exhibition
stroke art fair | intox project | munich
group exhibition
munich pop up art gallery | munich
group exhibition
2018
artmuc gallery | artmuc art fair | munich
group exhibition
gallery all you can art | munich
group exhibition
2017
artmuc art fair | munich
solo exhibition
xpon-art gallery | xpon-goes x | hamburg
group exhibition
artmuc meets hearthouse | munich
group exhibition
stroke art fair | intox project | munich
group exhibition
2016
studio petrmayr | schießscharten | peiting
solo exhibition
xpon-art gallery | kraft_akt | hamburg
group exhibition
2015
art25 feuer+ flamme | botanikum | munich
open studios
2013
xpon-art gallery | an::sehen | hamburg
group exhibition
2011
kulturzentrum faust | hannover
open studios
2010
kulturzentrum faust | hannover
open studios
2009
university of hannover | akt
annual exhibition
2008
university of hannover | freies zeichnen
annual exhibition
