About
I got to know Rebekka Hatzung first and foremost as an artist who likes to experiment with materials and enjoys letting these creative waves run their course and balancing on them, creating something new from them and from herself in the process.
(Janne Rowi)
Rebekka Hatzung
1981 born in Augsburg, Germany
Lives in Switzerland since 2007
Studied business administration in Ingolstadt, Germany
2005-2014 International management positions with industrial groups in Canada, France and Switzerland
2015-today Management positions in the healthcare sector in Zurich and Basel
Since 1997 active occupation with painting (oil, acrylic, mixed media), as well as training and continuous further education at free art academies in Germany, Italy and Switzerland
May 2015 Studio exhibition, Basel, Switzerland
July 2015 Solo exhibition, gallery space Augsburg, Germany
January 2016 Participation Art Innsbruck, Austria
Since 2015-today Various exhibitions in galleries and public spaces, permanent exhibition SüessART, Dagmersellen, Switzerland
The successful, courageous path into the unknown
This path had been a long time coming. Although she studied mathematics and music during her education – ‘I was never particularly good at art’, she reveals with a laugh – she still loved painting and began to paint herself during her high school years in the USA. Art was very much encouraged there and she already had a good foundation.
Back home, Rebekka Hatzung attended courses at independent art academies, for example with the Augsburg artists Georg Kleber, Monika Schultes and Robert Süess. She also studied business administration in Ingolstadt and worked in large corporations in Montreal, Paris, Zurich and Basel in the following years. In Zurich and in the cultural metropolis of Basel, Rebekka Hatzung has been working in management positions in the healthcare sector for around 10 years.
‘Just let it happen courageously’
In her own studio and in other seminars and workshops, she lived creatively in her free time more and more courageously according to the philosophy ‘that you often have to give up something in order to achieve even more beautiful results’. She succeeded excellently and in a short time in gaining the freedom to work and to express herself freely in her paintings, to work intensively on them and to courageously add another layer to already beautiful areas in order to achieve an even more valuable result.
She has learned not to plan the start of a painting precisely, but instead to ‘just let it happen courageously’.
