Tina Oelker

The german painter, Tina Oelker was born on the 7th of Dec. in 1973 in Westfalia and is now living and working Hamburg.
At the age of 15-19 she studied Modern Art in her home town Hamm. During her studies she met the Italian (Avandgarde) Artist, Federico Schiaffino, who inspired her work, invited her to Portofino and exhibited her work.
After her graduation in1994 Tina Oelker moved to New York, to study Fine Art at the Art Students League and childrenbook illustration at S.V.A.. Back in Germany she directly started to exhibit and held several live-painting performances. From 1997-2004 she studied Design at the University HHW in Hamburg.
During that time she became one of the most present artists and curators in Hamburg. In 2004 she finished her project, “Durchgang” (producer gallery) and concentrated intensivly on her paintings. Tina is currently presenting herself with her project, “1ooo Hares – limited edition” and her hunting motives.

“Her large oil paintings (200 x 200 cm) show pestering restlessness and vehemence, emotions spread out directly and naked. She intends to provoke the viewers emotions, not to say she attacks them. Tina Oelker doesn´t go easy on emotions and even less her own ...” “..a work full of vitality, a passionfull painting between laugh and tears.” Syllabuses of the exhibition speach by Beate Naß, 2007

Since spring 2008 she lives and works together with the actor and singer/songwriter Manuel Alec Klein and shot the short movies, “Zu Tisch”/ “being at table” where she catches on with the hunting motives. It gives a clue of Tina Oelker´s direct, powerfull and humorous association with her perception of hunt, wild deer, human beings, sex, birth, death, life itself.