Rita Geißler

Rita Geißler is a graphic artist and painter based in Dresden, Germany.

The focus of her work lies in printmaking. Working with a range of graphic techniques, some of which she has modified and further developed herself, she has created a distinctive visual language of reduction and abstraction. Her motifs include landscapes, architecture and the human figure.

With only a few lines and concentrated black forms on white paper, she constructs spaces and forms. Rather than describing appearances, her works seek to reveal the inner structure and essence of their subjects, reducing them to their most fundamental elements.

Geißler developed her artistic language while studying graphic art and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden under Professor Gerhard Kettner. Her diploma project, a series of etchings inspired by poems by the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, was awarded “Most Beautiful Book of the Year” at the renowned Leipzig Book Fair.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Germany, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Georgia, Azerbaijan and the United States. She has held artist residencies at the Litografiska Akademin in Tidaholm, Sweden, and at Zygote Press in Cleveland, USA.

See GRAFIK and MALEREI for selected works.

Curriculum Vitae

2024
Pleinair, Georgia

2022
Project participation “Make Yourself at Home”, Baku, Azerbaijan

2019
International Art Festival, Batumi, Georgia
Canaletto Prize, Kultur.Synchron Dresden

2017
Member of Dresdner Sezession 89

2014
Work Scholarship, Zygote Press, Cleveland, USA
Supported by the Ohio Arts Council

2010
Work Scholarship of the City of Dresden
Litografiska Akademin, Tidaholm, Sweden

2008
Otto Niemeyer-Holstein Scholarship

since 1990
Member of the Saxon Artists Association

1989
Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts Dresden
Thesis: Etchings on Poems by Anna Akhmatova
Awarded “Most Beautiful Book of the Year”, renowned Leipzig Book Fair

1982 – 1989
Studies in Graphic Arts and Painting
Academy of Fine Arts Dresden
under Professor Gerhard Kettner

Lives and works in Dresden.

Selected Exhibitions (since 2013)

2024
Galerie 2. Stock im Rathaus, Dresden (group exhibition)

2022
Galerie Medienkulturhaus Pentacon, Dresden
Ta(r)dino 6 Art Platform, Baku, Azerbaijan (group exhibition)

2021
Galerie 2.0, Dresden

2020
Kunstgalerie Hans, Dresden

2019
Kunst im Klinkhardt-Bau, Wurzen
Galerie am Park, Vienna (group exhibition)
Kunstgalerie Batumi, Georgia (group exhibition)

2018
Villa Eschebach, Dresden
Galerie Mitte, Dresden (group exhibition)
Magdalenenburg, Königstein (group exhibition)

2017
Galerie Drei, Dresden
Galerie am Hirschgarten, Erfurt
Kupferdruckwerkstatt Gentinetta, Zurich (group exhibition)

2016
Saxon State Chamber of Physicians, Dresden
Albrechtsburg Meißen (group exhibition)
GEDOK Galerie Berlin (group exhibition)

2015
Galerie am Weißen Hirsch, Dresden
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Villa Eschebach, Dresden (group exhibition)

2014
Zygote Press, Cleveland, USA
Carl-Lohse-Gallery, Bischofswerda
Library of the Dresden State Art Collections
Albrechtsburg Meißen (group exhibition)

2013
Saxon Government Presidium, Dresden
City Gallery Radebeul
NSKV Exhibition, St. Petersburg (group exhibition)