Margarita Siebke

In the artist's words

Artistic Career of Margarita Siebke:

October 2017–February 2020
Lecturer at the Wiesbaden Adult Education Center (VHS) for portrait drawing and painting.

October 2017
Presentation at the annual conference of the Association of Disabled Chaplains and Disability Chaplains (KbS) on visual language and disability – pictograms.

June 2010
Mainz Art Workshop: Certificate from the Mainz Art Workshop with distinction.

2006–2009
Part-time continuing education
in fine arts/painting at the art workshop of the
Mainz Adult Education Center (VHS) (Workshop Director: Doris Happel).

2006–2008 Participation in the 3rd Long-Term Project "Art and Religion." Practice in Dialogue between Visual Arts, Theology, and the Church 2006-2008 - in cooperation with the Institute for Church Building and Contemporary Sacred Art at Philipps University of Marburg and the Center for Proclamation of the EKHN - Department of Art and Church/Frankfurt

2006-2008
Image Meditations in Christ Church, Mainz

2008 Summer Academy of the Mainz Adult Education Center: Nude Painting with Susann Gassen

2006 Landscape Painting with Susann Gassen

2005
Basic artistic training in courses and
workshops at the Mainz Adult Education Center
with, among others, Elli Weishaupt, Horst Gander, Susann Gassen, and Maria Goworkowskaja-Müller

2003-2004
Beginning of intensive painting based on inner visions
Acrylic painting courses with Hayko Spittel in Offenbach

1992-2010
Pastor of the Evangelical Church Church of Hesse and Nassau in Darmstadt, Erzhausen, Offenbach, and Mainz.

1981-1991
Studied Protestant Theology in Tübingen, Philadelphia (USA), and Heidelberg

1967-1980
Elementary school and classical secondary school in Bad Homburg

1960
Born in Burg auf Fehmarn

Exhibitions:

2012 Exhibition at the Protestant Church of Hochheim (Here I Stand - Confirmed)

2011 Exhibition at Christ Church Mainz (Here I Stand - Confirmed)

2010 Graduation Exhibition of the Mainz Art Workshop

(Expressionist Figure Painting and Genre Scenes as a Possibility of Contemporary, Thematic Representation)

2006-2009 End-of-Year Exhibitions of the Mainz Art Workshop

2005 Exhibition at Hair-Art in Mainz (Landscapes)