Carol Pilars de Pilar
Carol Anne Franziska Antonia Pilars de Pilar (born 6 August 1961 in Bad Godesberg) is a German artist. She is the daughter of Josef Pilars de Pilar and his French wife Béatrice Lamotte d'Argy. Her great-grandparents are Ladislaus and Antonia Pilars de Pilar.
Life
After Highschool in South Africa (1975–1976) Carol Pilar studied painting and restoration in Florence. Since 1985 she is working Künstlerin in Düsseldorf. Her paintings and sculptures are dealing with the tension between poverty and wealth.[1]
Carol is living and working in Düsseldorf and is married with the photographerFranklin Berger. She has two children with the photographer Andreas Gursky.[2]
Exhibitions
- Lenzpumpen (1995), group exhibition in the Tabea Langenkamp Gallery
- Scharfer Blick (1995), group exhibition (with catalogue) in the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
- Ett hevetes förvandling (1996), Exhibition (with catalogue), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Single exhibition in the Simon-Spiekermann-Galerie, Düsseldorf
- Toi Toi Toi (1998), group exhibition curated by Helga Meister, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Botschaft Düsseldorfer Project group exhibition (2001), Exhibition in the Simon-Spiekermann-Galery with Volker Gatz, Düsseldorf
- Art Funds Stipend, Bonn (2002)
- Trendwände (2005), group exhibition in the Kunstraum Düsseldorf
- Große Kunstausstellung NRW (2005), Düsseldorf, Messehallen
- small Sculptures/large Aquarells (2006), single exhibition, Poststraße 3, Düsseldorf, Text Blazenka Perica
- Carol Pilars de Pilar/Franklin Berger (2007), Steinstraße 23, Düsseldorf
- Große Kunstausstellung NRW (2007), Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
- Bestiarium. The animal in the art (2008), group exhibition, Maxhaus, Düsseldorf
- Kunsthalle Flingern (2008), group exhibition, Düsseldorf
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