Beate Rusch.

Born in 1962 in Leer/East Frisia, studied Sinology and German philology in Berlin, Taipeh and Shanghai. Since 2008 she has been studying art with Birgit A. Jansen, Jerry Zeniuk and Ingrid Floss as well as Klaus Wegmann and Birgit Kelly. Exhibitions in Berlin (including Art Kreuzberg, 2013, 2014), Bad Reichenhall (2016, group exhibition), Schloss Herrenchiemsee (2017, group exhibition). Lives and works in Berlin.

"I like rhythm. Colour, colours. Plains, lines too. Spaces. Canvas more than paper. Playing, finding, layering, questioning. Magenta. Still life, storm too. Keep going, keep asking. Keep painting, become concrete. Shapes. Despair. Decide. Grey. Red. On and on until the painting speaks: I am."