Background
Brändle grew up in Aachen and after graduating from high school she joined the Maastricht Academy of Fine s where she owned her Bachelor of Design in 2003.
Brändle grew up in Aachen and after graduating from high school she joined the Maastricht Academy of Fine s where she owned her Bachelor of Design in 2003.
During her studies Brändle developed her artistic photographic potentials and discovered the fascination of posters and their artistic opportunities for further editing. After living in Portsmouth, Berlin and Lisbon, Brändle moved to the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. In 2012 Bränlde returned to Berlin Kreuzberg where she now lives and works.
Brändle collects poster material on her travels which provide the bases of her timeand culture-specific artworks.
From small fragments to large-scale pieces, her collages/decollages range between popular art and abstraction. Brändle"s work has been part of solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Austria, Lebanon, Hungary and the United States. The artist about her work: Foreign more than a decade now, I dedicate myself to the creation of collages/decollages.
On my travels, I collect posters of local events such as theatre plays, concerts, festivals and other cultural happenings that later form the basis of my works. But not any random posters - placards tanned by wind and weather, amateurishly attached to the walls of buildings and bridges, partly smudged or rotted ones that from city to city, country to country, continent to continent bear their very own hallmarks.
Rain, sunlight and sometimes even human vandalism transform the original advertising into something new, something unique.
I"m looking for exactly these excerpts to capture them in my collages/decollages holding them for eternity and creating a new unity, layer by layer. This is a table of exhibitions of Pola Brändle.
From an art historical point of view, Brändle follows in the footsteps of the affichistes.
