Frank Schmidt about "Pharma phlora", 2020


"It is easy to assume that Sibylle Springer is very skeptical about the general ability of pictures to have an impact and to convey meaning. As a painter, she is always looking for new ways to obscure the references of her pictures or to make them unrecognizable altogether – for example, by applying varnish that only allows us to see the subject when the lighting is just right and when looking at it from the proper angle. Does she perhaps not trust the references she has chosen?..."

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"Serial Killers"

KAI10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, 2020

"Sibylle Springer’s series of portraits revolves around 14 women who became murderers for different reasons."

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toxic tears


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poisonous pleasure, 2018 / 2019


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Toxic Tools, 2018


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SHOOT THE FREAK, 2017

Peter Friese, director Kunstvereins Ruhr, Essen

In her exhibition, which makes reference to the display window space of the Kunstverein Ruhr, Sibylle Springer combines five exquisite paintings with a veritable cloud, measuring approximately three by four meters, consisting of countless images found in and cut out of our visual memory.

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serial killers, 2018


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Gift, 2017

Jens Asthoff about the work of Sibylle Springer

As an artist, Sibylle Springer’s fascination is with the human body, or more precisely, with how the body is entangled with the gaze that is directed towards it and addressed to it.

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Déjà-vu? 20 views, 2012

text by Ludwig Seyfarth

Sibylle Springer’s 20 Blicke (20 Views) series focuses on several works in the history of art from the sixteenth century to the present. The highly diverse “models” - paintings, sculptures, and photographs - all depict themes and motifs of Christian iconography.

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Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2012


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Gleam, 2009

Interview between Wolfgang Ullrich and Sibylle Springer

"I use a 'baroque-like' principle in my work"

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