Rita Ackermann

b. 1968, Budapest, Hungary

Ackermann’s work negotiates the opposing ideas of creation and destruction, and aggression and fragility. While trained in printmaking, she is best known for large-scale paintings that occupy a space between the figurative and abstract. She has also worked in collage, photography, sculpture and performance. Ackermann recently opened a critically acclaimed exhibition, ‘Mama ’19’, at Hauser & Wirth New York, debuting a series of paintings in which figures and motifs rise to the surface of canvases, only to dissolve and reappear elsewhere again. The polymathic artist also collaborated with French fashion house Chloé on its A/W20 catwalk collection.