Gabriele Musebrink was born 1955 in Essen, Germany, and has German and Polish roots. After finishing her Art Studies, she has been
working as a graphic and visual artist in several German Museums and institutions during 1983 and 1998. Among them are the
Museum Centre in Essen, the Diocese of Essen and the Old Synagogue in Essen.
Gabriele Musebrink has collaborated with professor and film maker Werner Nekes from the Art School for Media and Design in
Cologne in his film series ‘ Media Magica’ (5 films). During this time she is already teaching painting in adult education.
Since 1993 she has been working exclusively as a freelancer artist in her own artists’ studio and gallery in Essen and founded
HOFWERKSTATT – a holistic Center for Art and Meditation with her own Art school Musebrink (KUNSTSCHULE MUSEBRINK). She
works all over Europe, demonstrating her unique working style at public art events, teaching seminars and doing exhibitions. She is an
author and publishes extensively in art books and on internet platforms.
Artistic approach
An expression of transformation, morphology in painting, birth and death – the intuitive process painting of Gabriele Musebrink reflects
natural life processes and scents out in the process of painting the different kinds of material to be deployed as well as the technique.
Gabriele loves natural materials that have a life of their own. For more than 30 years Gabriele Musebrink has developed her very
distinct style and artistic expression, grounded in informal art and yet transcending it. Transformation is her artistic topic in the paintings
and the process of transformation itself becomes part of the process of painting.
Statement
To me, Love is the underlying element in everything. Everything is an Expression of transformation.” Gabriele Musebrink
The material originating directly from nature is inalterably being conserved. It is not sublimed and there is no contamination. The
material is not only means of creation of the artwork itself but represents a part that is intrinsically tied to it. The extraordinary perception
of such an abstract work is based on and comes with a feeling of the existence of reality…“ Marzenna Guzowska | Art Critic | Warsaw