Sibyll kalff

Sibyll Kalff (born 1967 Bonn, Germany) is a German mixed-media artist and musician whose work follows the tradition of Fluxus and Dadaism. The breadth of her artwork consists of paintings, artists books, works on paper, sketchbooks, collage books, and video art. Also her original compositions within music follows the genre of blues with a strong folk influence.
Biography
Kalff, who was raised in Bonn, was taught art privately during 1983 to 1987 by the painter Insea Hohlt-Sahm, before going to art school at the summer academy for fine arts in Trier and the Fachhochschule Cologne from 1987 to 1988. After a short travel to Nepal, her first group show was at Kunsthaus Rhenania in Cologne during May 1991 for an exhibition called "No Germans To The Front." Over the next few year, she would head to London, Portugal, Morocco, Paris, and New York City to work on her art and music career.
After the next few years, Kalff had group and solo shows in a diverse range of places including the STORM gallery in Amsterdam during November 1991, the Ehrenfelder Kunststage in Cologne during June 1992, the Galerie am Schlachthof at Cologne during February 1993, the Galerie Cornelius Hertz at Bremen from March 1995 to June 1995, the Joe Doe Gallery at Brooklyn during October 1999, the galery thor zimmermann in cologne during July 2001, FLUXFACTORY in New York City during May 2006, the Abaton Garage Gallery in New Jersey during December 2006 to January 2007, The Core in Portland during July 2007, the University Art Gallery at the University of California in Irvine during June 2008, the F.U.E.L. Collection in Philadelphia during December 2008, Artists Space during December 2008, the Petersburg Project Space in Amsterdam during June 2009, and the Artestudio Morandi at Ponte Nossa, Bergamo, Italy during July 2009.
Also Kalff has been involved in a variety of projects involving sound art, artists books, conceptual photography, as well as various works on paper.
Works
Kalff's best known works, which has been described as being complex and varied, has been compared to the work of Dieter Roth and Gerhard Richter in terms of its use of humor and personal history to craft narratives that reflect themes of travel, whimsy, living in the moment, and cultural understanding in the vein of members of the Beat Generation.

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