Hilde Retzlaff

Hilde Retzlaff received the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation Scholarship in 2016. The guest jury that year included Artist’s Editor-in-Chief Sofia Curman and Angelika Knäpper from Bohman-Knäpper Gallery.

From the jury’s motivation:

“Hilde Retzlaff develops her own mythology by collecting remnants from the surrounding environment and transforming discarded materials with great care and precision. Her work reflects a persistent effort to explore the full potential of materials and to refine them through artistic processes.

In her collages, poster paper becomes increasingly tactile and material-focused, while old textiles are transformed through weaving and reconfiguration. In the sculpture series Logogram, found objects appear almost like fossils. Cast into concrete, the objects become difficult to identify and are present mainly through their absence—silent, elusive, yet powerful traces of contemporary life.

Hilde Retzlaff describes herself as being on a spiritual journey. We look forward to following it.”