Biography
German-British painter Marius von Brasch received his MA with distinction from Winchester School of Art (Uni of Southampton) where he also completed his practice-based PhD, both in Fine Art Painting.
He was awarded the Abbey Fellowship in Painting at The British School in Rome in 2013.
With a background in psychotherapy and literature, Marius von Brasch teaches experiential approaches to painting as well as courses on art and literature.
His work is held in the Priseman Seabrook Collection, the University of Essex Modern and Contemporary British Art Collection, and in international private collections.
The artist lives and works on the Isle of Wight, UK.
Marius von Brasch is member and committee member of Contemporary British Painting.
He is represented by Jenn Singer Gallery.
Education
2012 Completed practice-based PhD Fine Art at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton) on ‘Distance, however near it may be’: Revisiting ‘Aura’ on the Axis between Painting and Digital Technology within a Deleuzian Framework of ‘Becoming’
2009 MA Fine Art Painting with Distinction at Winchester School of Art
1987/88 Guest Student at Staedelschule Frankfurt am Main in the classes of Prof. Johannes Schreiter and Prof. Thomas Bayrle
Other relevant qualifications
1999 Gestalt Therapist (Dipl) and Practioner of Postural Integration (Dipl), École de Communication Créative in Strasbourg, France
1989 MA in German Literature, Philosophy, and Musicology at J W Goethe University, Frankfurt
Solo exhibitions (since 2000)
2023 Black Sun, Braided Time, Jenn Singer Gallery, New York, NYC
2021 Othernight, The Bunker Gallery, Isle of Wight
2019 Liminal, Yellow Edge Gallery, Gosport
2019 Ennui Refigured (with Freya Purdue), APT Gallery, Deptford. London
2017 Illumination, West Gallery, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight (with Howard Hardiman)
2012 Distance however near it may be, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester
2009 Oedipus Diving, Ropestore Gallery, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
2007 Oedipus Diving, Studio for Creative Communication, Southsea (self-curated)
2006 New Works, Studio for Creative Communication, Southsea (self-curated)
2003 Pathworks, Studio for Creative Communication, Southsea (self-curated)
2000 In Search of Paradise, Ether Gallery, Southsea (2-person show with Jan Williams)
Group exhibitions (since 2009, selection)
2024 Portfolio, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
2024 Slow Painting – Cultural Landscapes and Surface Tension, The Plough Arts Centre, Torrington, and StudioKIND, Barnstaple
2024 Assembly, Rye Creative Arts, Rye
2023 NADA Curated: Multipolar organized by Itzel Vargas Plata, New Art Dealers Association (NADA), NYC
2023 X - Contemporary British Painting, Newcastle Contemporary Art, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
2022 Paradoxes: 52 Painters. Contemporary British Painting. Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
2021 The ArtTop10.com Lockdown Interviews Exhibition, Cello Factory, London
2021 The Waiting Place (curated by Ann-Marie James & Emily Godden), The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk
2020 Beyond Other Horizons, Palatul Culturii, Iaşi, Romania
2019 2022, Studio 2A, Isle of Wight
2019 Made in Britain. Priseman Seabrook Collection, Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk, Poland
2017 Ex Roma IV, APT Gallery, Deptford, London
2017 Open Studios, Freya Purdue & Marius von Brasch, Isle of Wight
2016 Stories/Narrative, The Studio at Rookley Manor, Isle of Wight
2015 The Drawing Process, West Gallery, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight
2015 Belief, Depozitory, Isle of Wight
2015 A garden at the foot of every tree, The Studio at Rookley Manor, Isle of Wight
2014 Open Exhibition, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
2013 Friday 13th, Award Holders Exhibition at Gallery British School at Rome, Rome
2012 Visioneca, Experimental Film Festival, Isle of Wight
2012 The Lollipop People, Depozitory, Ryde
2012 Practice-based Projects, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester
2011 Rendition, Chapel Arts Studios, Andover
2011 Drawn, Five Years, London
2011 Feint, The Rag Factory, London
2011 Pre.Sense, Temporary Project Space (empty house), Headington, Oxford
2010 Out & About, Aspex Gallery Portsmouth, film screening in conjunction with the exhibition The Great Outdoors, Portsmouth
2009 Becoming/, Link Gallery at the University of Winchester, Winchester
Curatorial projects
2019 Ella Clocksin - New Paintings at Rookley Manor Studio, Isle of Wight
2016 Stories/Narrative, The Studio at Rookley Manor, Isle of Wight
2015 A garden at the foot of every tree, The Studio at Rookley Manor, IOW
2011 launched susan projects (with Ella Clocksin) with Pre.Sense, curated by susan projects, temporary project space, Headington, Oxford
Works in Collections
Priseman Seabrook Collection, listed on ArtUK
University of Essex: Modern and Contemporary British Art Collection
Klinik in der Zarten, Germany
Awards and Grants
2016 ACE grant for Illumination exhibition and production of catalogue (with Howard Hardiman)
2013 Abbey Fellowship Award for Painting, British School at Rome
2009 Postgraduate Scholarship for PhD (Winchester School of Art – University of Southampton)
Teaching/Courses
2024 Painting and Alchemy, Hawkwood College for Future Thinking, Stroud
2023 Painting and Alchemy, Hawkwood College for Future Thinking, Stroud
2022 and 2023 Portfolio Presentation Course, Quay Arts, Newport, IOW
2021 and 2022 Unfolding Our Light Crystal Retreat (Painting Unit), Hawkwood College
2021 Painting and the Sublime - Landscape and mythology in paintings by Nicholas Poussin, The Fintry Trust
2020 Orpheus and Roses - Late poems of Rainer Maria Rilke in the paintings of Cy Twombly, The Fintry Trust
2020 Alchemical Meditation, The Fintry Trust
2020 Introduction to ‘Aurora Consurgens’, The Fintry Trust
2020 Introduction to ‘Splendor Solis’, The Fintry Trust
2018 and 2019 Portfolio Presentation Course, Quay Arts, Newport, IOW
2016 Drawing/Painting from Within, Summer School at Quay Arts, Newport, IOW
2015/16 Becoming Visible, one-day courses at The Studio at Rookley Manor, IOW
2010 Part-Time Lecturer in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art
2000-2008 Experiential Painting and The Art Within: one-day, weekend and 3-part workshop as well as monthly workshops at self-founded Studio for Creative Communication in Southsea, Hampshire
1998-2004 Active involvement in the management of artist collective ArtSpace Portsmouth
1994-2000 Various workshops and one-to-one work on ways of accessing and enhancing creativity via drawing, painting and Gestalt therapy
Bibliography
2023 X - Contemporary British Painting. Contemporary British Painting
2022 Paradoxes: 52 Painters. Contemporary British Painting
2020 Beyond Other Horizons. Curated by Peter Harrap, Anna McNay & Florin Ungureanu. Editura palatul culturii, Iasi
2019 Made in Britain. 82 Painters of the 21st Century. The National Museum, Gdansk. Seabrook Press
2019 Ennui Refigured. Freya Purdue & Marius von Brasch, New paintings and drawings. APT Gallery, London
2017 Illumination. Exhibition catalogue (with Howard Hardiman), introduction by Ella Clocksin, Quay Arts
2014 Fine Arts 2013-14. Catalogue of British School at Rome @ The British Academy, London
Publications
2013 Affective Constructions – Fragmented Images on the Axis between Painting and the Digital (essay) in Harland, B. (ed.) Behind the Eyes/Making Pictures. Research Group for Artists Publications
2012 ‘Distance, however near it may be’: Revisiting ‘Aura’ on the Axis between Painting and Digital Technology within a Deleuzian Framework of ‘Becoming’. Doctoral thesis for practice-based PhD accessible at http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/346350/
2011 stalemate/escape. Essay for Feint: tackle/wield. Winchester Gallery Press
2009 Digital Economy and Memory. Essay for Research Anthology Winchester School of Art. Winchester Gallery Press
2007 Oedipus Diving (catalogue of complete series, introduction, and 46 reproductions of paintings). The Magical Forest Press, 2007.
Symposiums
2020 Connected through culture | Paul Celan 100 - online conversation with curators Anna McNay and Peter Harrap, professor Gabriel H. Decuble and Dr Marius von Brasch, organised by EUNIC Romania through British Council Romania and forumul cultural austriac, in partnership with Institutul Cultural Român / Romanian Cultural Institute and Romanian Cultural Institute in London.
2020 To Stand in the shadow of the scar - Language, Scattered Light and Time. On Reading Paul Celan. Paper for symposium Beyond Other Horizons, Palatul Cultrurii, Iaşi, Romania
2013 Affective Constructions. Paper for symposium Behind the Eyes, North Gallery, Northumbrian University, Newcastle
2011 Flux and Fragment. Paper at 4th International Deleuze Studies Conference, Copenhagen
