Birgit Huttemann-Holz

Birgit’s energetic works show a lush world, where nature is in constant celebration.   Her gestural abstractions reflect an intense relationship with the surrounding landscape, an intimate experience of wilderness which mirrors alluring and alarming oneself.

She employs a myriad of media, including encaustic, oil, acrylic, encaustic monotype and even throwing and painting ceramics.

She has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in Germany, The Netherlands, and in the US. Birgit won multiple awards nationwide. Her work was selected for Studio Visit Magazine, winter edition 2013, spring edition 2017, for the Palm Award, Germany (Certificate of Excellence), 2015, Saatchi Collections "New This Week" and “Inspired by”, 2014,  2018,2019, 2020, 2022; The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY,  2017,2018 and 2019, and The Other Art Fair Chicago, IL, 2018 and 2019.

In February 2017, she attended a month-long residency at The Studios of Key West.

Her book "Enkaustik- Das Grundlagenbuch zur Wachsmalerei" was published April 2015 by Christopherus Verlag, Germany and translated into English in 2017, “How to create Encaustic Art- A guide to painting with wax”.  

In 2022 she exhibited her work at the art fairs “Lille Art Up”, Lille, France with Gallery MC Sorely and “Art San Diego” with ADC Fine Art Gallery.

In October 2022, she was awarded the Female Lifetime Achievement Award, Art Comes Alive, ADC Fine Art Gallery, Cincinnati.

Huttemann-Holz lives and works in Detroit, USA.

Solo Exhibitions:

2024 One Body of Wilderness, Posterity Gallery, Grosse Pointe, MI
2023 State of The Art, ADC Fine Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2022 On Beauty and Being, Healthspan Gallery,  Grosse Pointe, MI
2018 Metaphor of Flora, Paintings, Prints, Ceramics, River’s Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2017 The Weight of Orchids, Studios of Key West, Ashe Campus, Key West, FL, 2017
2016 "Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Laura Atkins, Tim Pewe, Robby Gall, "Washes, Wax, Wood& Wishes", River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, Mi
2015 "Birgit Huttemann-Holz and Stephen Palmer", June 18- July30, Ward Gallery, Petoskey, MI
2013 "Between Heaven and Earth", Oct 5- Nov 15, River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte,MI
2011 "Affairs with Serpants and HeroINES", (3 women show), River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2009 "Wherever you are", encaustic paintings, Gallery at the Unitarian Church Birmingham Bloomfield, Mi
2008 "Come Away with Me" encaustic paintings, GPAC (Grosse Pointe Art Center), Grosse Pointe, MI 
2007 "Birgit Huttemann-Holz", paintings in oil and encaustic, Doan Residency, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

Selected Group Exhibitions: 

2025 Actually Working, Detroit Contemporary, Feb, Detroit, MI
2024 ACA Art Comes Alive, ADC Fine Art Gallery Cincinnati, Nov, Cincinnati, OH
2024 Open Studio, Pioneer Building, October, Detroit, MI
2024 Atlanta Art Fair, Steidel Contemporary, Oct 3-6, 2024, Atlanta, GE
2024 Summer, Posterity Gallery, August, Grosse Pointe, MI
2024 Radiance, ADC Fine Art Gallery, Cincinnati, June, OH
2024 Singularities, The Wax Monotype, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Provincetown, (Invitational)
2024 The Other Art Fair Chicago, April, IL
2024 Jardin d’hiver, Galerie Heimat, Jan-March, Saint- Remy-de-Provence, France
2023 Jardin d’hiver, Galerie Heimat, December, Saint- Remy-de-Provence, France
2023 Winter, Posterity Gallery, Grosse Pointe, MI
2023 ACA Fall, ADC Fine Art Gallery Cincinnati, OH
2023 Home Away from Home, NG Creative Fine Art, Oct 17-Nov 10, Moulin de Greoux, Mausanne Les Alpilles, France
2023 Embrace Creative Showcase, Detroit, MI
2023 ACA Spring, ADC Fine Art Gallery Cincinnati, USA
2023 Gallery Mc Sorely, The Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 The Other Art Fair, April, Chicago, IL (juried)
2023 Concerning Landscape, Jan 20-Feb 18, Detroit Artist Market, Henry Ford Cancer Pavilion, Detroit MI
2022 Michigan Design Center, EC Showcase, Troy, MI (invitational)
2022 Gold Medal Exhibition, Scrab Club, Detroit
2022 Art Comes Alive, ACD Fine Art Gallery, Cincinnati, USA (Female Lifetime Achievement Award)
2022 Michigan Design Center, EC& Schumacher Showcase, Troy, MI (invitational)
2022 Art San Diego with ADC Fine Art Gallery, San Diego, USA
2022 ADC Fine Art, ADC Fine Art Gallery Cincinnati, USA
2022 Lille Art UP, Lille Grand Palais, Gallery Mc Sorley, Lille, France
2021 The Affordable Art Fair, Gallery Mc Sorley, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Fall Exhibit, Gallery McSorley, s-Graveland, NL
2021 Group Show, River’s Edge, Wyandotte, MI (Invitational)
2020/21 Gold Medal Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit
2020 Big Six Art Auction, DAM Detroit Artists Market, DAM, Detroit, MI (invitational)
2020 Detroit Society of Women Painters and Sculptures, Black Box Gallery, Detroit
2020 Gold Medal Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit
2019 Gold Medal Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit
2019 The Affordable Art Fair, Gallery Mc Sorley, Amsterdam
2019 The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, MANA CONTEMPORARY, Chicago, IL
2019 The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, ay 2-5, Expo Center, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Art Fair C14, Hyatt Regency, Jersey City, with River’s Edge Gallery, NY
2019 Gilda Snowden Memorial, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2019 Art & Antiques Naarden, Gallery McSorley, Naarden, NL
2018 Fall Exhibit, Gallery McSorley, s-Graveland, NL
2018 FINE, Art and Antique Fair, Castle Groeneveld Baarn, McSorely Fine Art, Baarn, NL
2018 The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, MANA CONTEMPORARY, Chicago IL
2018 The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, May Expo center, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Wax & Paper, Hudson Valley Art Center, Highland, MI
2018 Kunst & Antiek Weekend Grote Kerk, McSorley Fine Art Gallery, Naarden Vesting, NL
2017 The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, 72 Noble Street, Expo Center, Brooklyn, NY
2017 AIMPE ’17, Awagami Internat. Miniature Print Exhibition, Awagami’s Hall of Awa Japanese Handmade Paper Museum, Japan
2017 16th Annual Open Studios, first Saturday in Oct, The Pioneer Building, Detroit, MI
2017 WAX, Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Candy Law, Graceann Warn, Chris McCauley, Linda Cole, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (invitational)
2017 #detroitsecretsessions take II, live performance and concert with Ivan Moshchuk and Birgit Huttemann-Holz, June 2, 8pm, Jam Handy, Detroit, MI
2017 USA Boutique “Meet the Artist”, 333 Midland, June, Detroit, MI
2017 Seven, June 16-July 31, River’s Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2017 DAM Detroit Artist Market Garden Show, June, Grosse Pointe, MI
2017 Art Route, Gallery McSorley, s-Graveland, Netherlands
2017 Studios of Key West, On the Deck, Katie Pumpfrey & Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Key West, FL
2016 Detroit Biennale, MONA Museum for New Art, Armada, MI
2016 15th Annual Open Studios, The Pioneer Building, Detroit, MI
2016 Vive les arts, viva la liberte, vive les amoures, May-Sept, Gallery McSorley, AN's-Graveland, Netherlands
2016 Encaustic Art in the 21 Century, Encaustic Institute, Santa Fe, NM (Invitational)
2016 Bugs, Blooms& Beasts, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (juried)
2016 The Pioneer Building, Cass Café, Detroit, MI (invitational)
2016 Washes, Wax, Wood & Wishes, River's Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI (invitational)
2016 Silver Medal, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI (juried)
2015/16 Behold the Soul/Zie de Mens, St. Paulus Church, Breukelen, The Netherlands
2015 14th Annual Open Studio, The Pioneer Building, Detroit, MI
2015 Contemporary Encaustic, Royal Contemporary Gallery, Florence, CO
2015 Artwalk, Ward Gallery, Petoskey, MI
2015 Let’s Pretend, River’s Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2015 Zusammenarbeit, River’s Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2015 Verleidelijik von Eva tot Lipstick, Gallery McSorely, Kl’s- Grave, The Netherlands
2014 Group Exhibition- Gallery Mc Sorely, Kl’s- Grave, The Netherlands
2014 NANA 2014, Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL

Publications

2024 Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Interview with Birgit Huttemann-Holz
https://www.contemporaryartcuratormagazine.com/home-2/birgit-huttemann-holz
2023 CanvasRebel Magazine, „Meet Birgit Huttemann-Holz“
2018-2020 Saatchi Collection “New This Week”
2017 “How to create Encaustic Art- A guide to painting with wax” by Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Schiffer, Oct ISBN-10: 0764354167
2017 Wachsmalerei/ Enkaustik „Wachs, Schlagmetall, Öl“ geistreich-lernen.de
2017 Wachsmalerei/ Enkaustik „Enkaustik Relief“, geistreich-lernen.de
2017 Wachsmalerei/ Enkaustik „Sonnenuntergang“, geistreich-lernen.de
2017 Saatchi Collection” Inspired by Cy Twombly”, April 2017
2017 Studio Visit Magazine, spring edition, Vol 36
2016 Wachsmalerei- Einführung und Fortgeschrittene, Birgit Huttemann-Holz, 138 min Video, geistreich-lernen.de
2016 Encaustic Art in the 21 Century, Schiffer Publishing, 2016
2015 Enkaustik- Das Grundlagenbuch der Wachsmalerei, Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Christopherus Verlag, Germany, ISBN 978-3-86230-304-5
2014 Saatchi Collection “New This Week” 21-4-2014
2014 Featured Artist, Visual Language Magazine, June 2014
2013 Wanderlust- Paintings and Poems, by Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Blurb
2013 Studio Visit Magazine Vol. 23
2013 Art and Design, Birgit Huttemann-Holz, WMTV5, Grosse Pointe, MI
2013 Art, Birgit Huttemann-Holz OCTV, Oxford, MI
2013 USA Encaustic, exhibition catalogue, ARC Gallery Chicago, IL
2012 Contemporary Painters, Schiffer Publishing, ISBN- 13: 978-0764341083
2011 Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, SOMArts cultural center catalogue, CA

Honors and Awards

2024 Future of Art Global Masterpiece Award, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
2023 Artist Residency, NG Art Creative Residency, Mausanne-les Alpilles, France
2022 Female Lifetime Achievement Award, ACD Fine Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2020 Saatchi Collection “New This Week”, January
2020 BIG SIX, DAM Detroit Artist Market, Detroit
2019 Saatchi Collection Inspired by Jackson Pollock
2018 Saatchi, “New This Week” Collection Show Case, Jan 
2017 Saatchi, “Inspired by CY Twombly”, Collection Show Case, April
2017 Artist Residency, Studios of Key West, Key West, FL
2016 Honorable Mention, Silver Medal Exhibition, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2014 Best of Show, NANA 2014 Award, Lucky Street Gallery, Key West,
          (FL Studios of Key West Residency 2017)
2014 Saatchi, New This Week, Collection Show Case, April, international
2013 First Place. American Arts Award, Abstract Expressionism
2013 Second Place. American Arts Award, Minimalism
2013 Finalist/ Best of Show. Platform Award, Paseo Originals Art Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK