Cornelia Baltes
(Born) | 1978 in Mönchengladbach, Germany |
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(Based) | Berlin, Germany |

Cornelia Baltes is a German artist known for her paintings and installations that stand on the edge of abstraction and figuration.
Corporeal elements such as hands and feet, part of a face, often captured in motion, are teased out of bold colour fields and gestural forms that combine to hint at a narrative in pictorial space.
In crystallising ‘moments’ that seem charged with intensity and dynamism, Cornelia Baltes invites us into a coherent world where spontaneity and playfulness are balanced with unexpected detail: both meticulous and specific, yet light and effortless. Although the work allows us to feel it could have exploded into being, the thoughtful use of material tells us otherwise.
Dense pigment is applied in a tightly controlled palette as solid fields or fine gradations which reveal or conceal the raw canvas, while ‘spontaneous’ brushstrokes are placed with care in spare but vibrant compositions. Tellingly, her approach to installation is a natural extension of this, anticipating lines of sight to allow the audience to feel the satisfying snap of creating a perfect composition.
This all signals a generosity to the viewer which also extends to the imagery in the work, which is open enough to invite us to overlay our own subjective experiences, morphing for each of us into a different narrative, into something personal and almost intimate while at the same time being open and universal in its ability to do so.
Cornelia Baltes graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art; London in 2011. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunstsammlun- gen Chemnitz; Museum Wiesbaden; Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff; Mostyn, Llandudno (Wales); Northern Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Sunderland (UK), ICA London, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Kunsthalle Nuremberg; Museum Folkwang (Essen), Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf among many others.
Images
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(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Dud (Year) 2022 (medium) Acrylic on canvas, wood frame (Dimensions) 210 x 150 cm, 82 5/8 x 59 in (Stock number) CBal014 -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Waggle Dance (Year) 2022 (Gallery) rodolphe janssen (Location) Brussels, Belgium -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Hrý (Year) 2022 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 210 x 150 cm;
82 5/8 x 59 1/8 in(Stock number) CBal003 -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Waggle Dance (Year) 2022 (Gallery) rodolphe janssen (Location) Brussels, Belgium -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Nom (Year) 2022 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 190 x 140 cm;
74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in(Stock number) CBal010 -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Waggle Dance (Year) 2022 (Gallery) rodolphe janssen (Location) Brussels, Belgium -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Frý (Year) 2022 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 180 x 130 cm;
70 7/8 x 51 1/8 in(Stock number) CBal009 -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Lil (Year) 2022 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 190 x 140 x 3 cm;
74 3/4 x 55 1/8 x 1 1/8 in(Stock number) CBal001 -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Lazybones (Year) 2022 (Institution) Nino Mier Gallery (Location) Los Angeles, CA USA -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Lazybones (Year) 2022 (Institution) Nino Mier Gallery (Location) Los Angeles, CA USA -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Olm (Year) 2021 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 87.75 × 64 × 2.25 cm -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Lazybones (Year) 2022 (Institution) Nino Mier Gallery (Location) Los Angeles, CA USA -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Eigenbrötler (Year) 2021 (Institution) EIGEN + ART Lab (Location) Berlin, Germany -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Jag (Year) 2021 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 210 x 150 cm -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Eigenbrötler (Year) 2021 (Institution) EIGEN + ART Lab (Location) Berlin, Germany -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Eigenbrötler (Year) 2021 (Institution) EIGEN + ART Lab (Location) Berlin, Germany -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Ako (Year) 2021 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 160 x 120 cm -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Glenn, site-specific mural (Year) 2021 (Institution) Creator Projects (Location) SOSU Østjylland, Aarhuus, Denmark -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Glenn, site-specific mural (Year) 2021 (Institution) Creator Projects (Location) SOSU Østjylland, Aarhuus, Denmark -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) JETZT!/NOW! (Year) 2020 (Institution) Deichtorhallen (Location) Hamburg, Germany -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Takk (Year) 2020 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 140 x 110 cm -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Semm (Year) 2019 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 140 x 100 cm -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Olgh (Year) 2019 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 210 × 150 cm -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Loel (Year) 2019 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 190 x 140 cm -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Ek (Year) 2018 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 191 × 141 × 3.3 cm -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Kenn (Year) 2018 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 190.0 x 140.0 x 3.3 cm -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Wallpaintings (Year) 2018 (Institution) Chapter Arts Center (Location) Cardiff, UK -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Wallpaintings (Year) 2018 (Institution) Chapter Arts Center (Location) Cardiff, UK -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Mingle Mime (Year) 2018 (Institution) Bolte Lang (Location) Zurich, Switzerland -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Mingle Mime (Year) 2018 (Institution) Bolte Lang (Location) Zurich, Switzerland -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Mingle Mime (Year) 2018 (Institution) Bolte Lang (Location) Zurich, Switzerland -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Balb (Year) 2018 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 190 x 140 cm -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Teek (Year) 2018 (medium) Acrylic on canvas (Dimensions) 230 x170 cm -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) New Adventures in Vexillology 2 (Year) 2016 (Institution) Kunstverein Amrun (Location) Amrun, Germany -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) New Adventures in Vexillology 2 (Year) 2016 (Institution) Kunstverein Amrun (Location) Amrun, Germany -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Catherine Biocca, Cornelia Baltes, Rosalie Schweiker (Year) 2016 (Institution) Mission Gallery (Location) Swansea, UK -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Liste (Year) 2016 (Institution) Limoncello (Location) Zurich, Switzerland -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Liste (Year) 2016 (Institution) Limoncello (Location) Zurich, Switzerland -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Eclipse (Year) 2016 (Institution) @ung5 (curated by KubaParis) (Location) Cologne, Germany -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Tiny Dancer (Year) 2015 (Institution) Kunstverein Ulm (Location) Ulm, Germany -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Tiny Dancer (Year) 2015 (Institution) Kunstverein Ulm (Location) Ulm, Germany -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Tiny Dancer (Year) 2015 (Institution) Kunstverein Ulm (Location) Ulm, Germany -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Off the wall (Year) 2014 (Institution) Kunsthalle Nuremberg (Location) Nuremberg, Germany -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Turner (Year) 2015 (Institution) Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (Location) Sunderland, UK -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Turner (Year) 2015 (Institution) Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (Location) Sunderland, UK -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Turner (Year) 2015 (Institution) Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (Location) Sunderland, UK -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Title) Ding Bats (Year) 2014 (medium) Acrylic on canvas -
(Artist) Cornelia Baltes (Exhibition) Nur was nicht ist ist möglich - Malerei im Raum (Year) 2013 (Institution) Museum Folkwang (Location) Essen, Germany