Title of the show “Furniture Haus Tanja”
It’s about the moment you just disappear between your own furniture. Being anonymous is important. You become part of your own furniture.

“I am the girl in the painting. My toes have grown very very long. They symbolize the retention of rituals that had a positive effect on our lives. The older we become, the faster life flies by. The more experiences we remember and reuse, the faster life runs by”.

Tanja Ritterbex makes paintings, drawings, installations, sculptures, video art and performances. Her energetic, colourful and expressive works are mostly autobiographical. Often the artist herself plays the leading role. Life and work are intertwined at Ritterbex. In both, much is happening at the same time, but the artist keeps the control tightly in his hands. is was also noted by the jury of the Royal Award of Free Painting, which Tanja Ritterbex recently received from King Willem-Alexander. “If in a puzzle she lets different elements coincide. Yet she keeps the composition in hand. It’s a good sign that she can handle that. There is concentration from her increasingly complex paintings”.

Tanja about her work: ‘Making art is just as obvious to me as breathing, eating, pooping and peeing. I get my inspiration from the street and from myself. I approach my work as a kind of diary. Because I have moved from Düsseldorf to Amsterdam, Tel Aviv and Berlin in a short time, I also need that diary a bit. It gives me guidance in my nomadic existence. In my art I record how I use the many impressions from all those new environments. Wherever I live and how chaotic my life sometimes is: I have my work with me. That gives me peace’. “Voyeuristic and exhibitionistic elements in the work of Tanja Ritterbex sometimes overlap in the fight for the attention of the public. At the intersection of shame and shamelessness, she focuses on the idea of beauty and the celebration of superficialities, as they are increasingly visible in social media. But Ritterbex is more than just a sensor: she also uses herself as a medium in her videos, performances, installations, paintings and web-based projects.”