Zora Kreuzer
Bonn (Germany), 1986
Zora Kreuzer (1986) is a painter whose practice explores the quality of light and colour through site-specific light installations and wall paintings. She investigates the colours and shapes found in public space, from advertising and neon signs to natural phenomena like rainbows and sunsets. Extraordinary is her strong sense of rhythm, shape and size and the use of (fluorescent) colour.
In her work Kreuzer uses straight lines and geometrical shapes. She also uses a colour system; Instead of the primary colours, she works with neon colours in addition with white, grey and black. ‘I perceive neon colour as the colour of light. This is the reason that I make art. It empowers me and gives me a sense of life’.
In her light installations she uses three lengths of fluorescent tubes (which are used as straight lines) and works with six colours. These limitations allows her to keep the work as simple as possible, but at the same time powerful.
Born in Bonn, Kreuzer grew up in Berlin. From 2006 to 2012 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, emerging as a Meisterschüler in 2013 of Proffesor Leni Hoffmann. During the course of her degree, she also undertook studies in France at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in 2008 and in China, at the Contemporary Art School Tianjin in 2009. Since 2013 she held solo and group shows in Australia, Taiwan and Europe and undertook several residencies in Australia. Since 2014 she is a member of the Australian Center for Concrete Art (AC4CA). Kreuzer currently lives and works in Berlin.
