Schultes Monika Maria – Dadada

Born in Augsburg, Germany, in 1955. She attended the College of Design in Augsburg in 1978, and the following year started travelling around the world. From 1981 to 1984 she studied Italian and art history, and from 1989 to 1995 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the class of Professor G. Berger, graduating in painting and graphic design. Between 1996 and 1999 she was a postgraduate student of visual art and therapy at the same Academy in the class of Professor G. Schottenloher. In 1991 she received the town of Augsburg grant, followed by numerous studentships at home, as well as in Italy and the US A. Monika Maria has received many awards for her work. She is a member of the Association of Professional Painters BBK of the North Schwab region, a member of the Association of Augsburg Painters ‘Die Ecke’, where she has been a Board member since 2009, a member of the artists’ association ‘Neue Munchner Kunstlergenossenschaft’ and a member of DFKGT, a professional association for art and creative therapy. She has exhibited her work in numerous shows in Germany and abroad since 1987. She lives and works in her hometown of Augsburg. Her painting includes figurative dimensions, the gestural and the outsider art, it is a meeting place of different layers of mythology, psychology, literature, art history. Full of the accumulated knowledge and unavoidable, easily conveyed humour, her paintings are transformed into ideal vehicle for a fantastic journey of the eye, the heart and the mind.