Lilli Hill
Contemporary art | Switzerland
Lilli Hill
Lilli Hill – knew early on that she had an extraordinary talent for seeing the world through different eyes. Born in Abaj, Kazakhstan, she was shaped in a creative atmosphere by her father, an ambitious amateur photographer and draftsman. Her training as a painter, which Lilli Hill began at the age of 13 in the studio of the local artist K. Ostapka in Abaj, gave her the tool to visualize her ideas. After moving to Germany, she studied graphics, art history, philosophy and painting (with Prof. Jürgen Störr) at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and conducted intensive studies of the painting techniques of the old masters in museums. Exhibitions of her lusty baroque portraits of women in galleries and museums followed. Lilli Hill lives and works in Thalwil / Switzerland.
LILLI HILL - master of elegant provocation -
artist statement
Lilli Hill is a Kazakh born artist painter. In 1993 she moved to Germany around. Lilli Hill lives and works in Berlin and Thalwil. She is mostly for her painted nudes known. During the first few years of her work, L. Hill worked on different topics had, in the last 12 years she was mainly with her - often idiosyncratic - Known for nudes. These have remained the focus of her work to this day. The motifs of my pictures arise from individualism and life itself, from Life as a stage and role play for people. I love and live this theatricalization excessively in my works. She gives me the opportunity casual and pleasurable presentation. It gives me the freedom to be the director and at the same time leading actress of the theater of life in countless expressive variants be.
Artworks by Lilli Hill
Rider & Horse
I am the rider
You are the horse
The paintings Hill presents here are born from her own interpretation of Rammstein’s lyrics. They depict a dark, raw beauty that is both disturbing and fascinating. The artists of the band do not shy away from illuminating the darkest sides of human nature, and in her paintings, she also attempt to capture and interpret these complex emotions and abysses artistically. She let herself be inspired by the expressive power of the music and tries to translate it into a visual form.
Beauty
Beauty
The painting reflects modern society, where beauty is often equated with success, happiness, and satisfaction. Young women are influenced to believe that they can only be successful if they look perfect and follow current fashion trends. This leads to an unhealthy pursuit of external beauty based on superficial standards, which can negatively impact self-esteem.
Changing times
Changing Times
The butterfly, the open pearl necklace, porcelain, and an exotic bird – props of vanitas. The central idea would be that humans have limited influence on life. From the perspective of vanitas rhetoric, a divinely ordained process of becoming and passing away is a normal state. The pearl necklace represents the chain of life, the pearls represent years. Conscious of change and transience, she casually pushes everything that lies ahead of her—all dreams, wishes, and visions—before her with her big toe.
Precious memory
Precious memory
Inspired by the piece of jewelry from the Dorotheum auction house in Vienna. During colonial times, an African king gave a large amethyst to an English noblewoman as a token of love. The affair became a scandal, and the young woman had to return to Europe. The stone was lovingly set in gold and diamonds and later made its way to Spain along with other pieces of jewelry. From the estate of a Spanish noble family, the stone eventually arrived in Vienna, where I saw it and learned its story.
