Expose Mara 2015 (engl)

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Mara2O 15

wildlife portraits by Stefanie Gendera

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Mara 2015Wildlife portraits by Stefanie Gendera

Published to accompany paintings exhibited at Berlin Walls Art Events in coope-ration with Nelumbo - the Art of Charity

Photo credit: nelumboart/Stefanie Gendera, page 22 left photo on the bottom Zoo Berlin/ Frederic Schweizer

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Year of publication: 2016

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Early morning, 17th December 2015, Masai Mara, Kenya

The Jeep starts moving laboriously. It is still dark, early in the day. A new morning in the Masai Mara. It seems that driver and car are struggling to go forward, like somebody who tries to find his way out of a deep narcosis. The humid mist doesn’t reveal most of the secrets that it is hiding. It is the time in which creature and creation, like satellites turning around each other, are on the point of closest convergence. The time in which the first light beams feel their way through the dense morning fog; the curtain rises. An act in which human can and always must only be a stage extra. The magic of the moment finds its way through the observers’ ether and leaves him alone with nothing less than tearful happiness. In deepest gratitude to this one world,

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LionAcrylics on canvas

original 1,00m x 1,60mMarch 2016

exhibition no Mara2015-0329

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Thomson‘s gazelleAcrylics on card boardoriginal 0,90m x 1,30mJanuary 2016


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ZebraAcrylics on paper



GiraffeAcrylics on paperoriginal 0,36m x 0,48mMarch 2016


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HyaenaAcrylics on canvas

original 0,70m x 1,00mJanuary 2016


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(previous double page)TriptychAcrylics on canvasoriginal 1,00m x 0,70m/0,70m x 1,40m/1,00m x 0,70mNovember 2015


BuffalosAcrylics on canvas



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TopiAcrylics on canvasoriginal 0,60m x 0,80mMarch 2016


BaboonsAcrylics on canvas

original 1,00m x 0,60mFebruary 2016


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LeopardAcrylics on canvasoriginal 0,60m x 0,80mMarch 2016


ElephantsAcrylics on canvas

original 1,00m x 1,60mFebruary 2016


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ZebrasAcrylics on canvas

original 1,00m x 1,60mApril 2016


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Berlin ZooAcrylics on canvasoriginal 1,60m x 2,00m

LionsAugust 2015exhibition no Mara2015-0929

(following double page)Berlin Zoo

Acrylics on canvasoriginals 1,60m x 2,00m

ElephantsJuly 2015


GorillasJuly 2015


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Berlin ZooAcrylics on canvas

original 1,60m x 2,00m

ZebrasSeptember 2015


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About the artist

Stefanie Gendera was born on April, 10th in 1981 and grew up in a small village, called Schackensleben, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.Early she discovered her artistic talent and financed her university degrees through commission works. Besides her academic career in environmental studies and international cooperation she always kept on following her artistic side.

With the age of 30 art turned into something more and more important in her life. Three years of living and working in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, from 2011 to 2014, rich in inspiration and sacrifices, enriched her art skills in ability and maturity. During those years art became her way of processing the experienced. The paintings that evolved in Asia are mirrors of her surrounding and reflections of her work as development advisor, working and living in a completely different cultural context.

Back in Germany the artistic journey continued with a cooperation with the Berlin Zoological Garden. Four big size animal portraits from the Zoo’s residents were sold during an auction in late summer 2015. Out of the proceeds, 50% was donated to the Zoo. The time after Vietnam was the end of a creative face that had a focus on human portraits, moving to the next phase on wildlife portraits. Her unquenchable hunger for inspiration took her from the Zoo in Berlin out to the wild animals in the Massai Mara in December 2015. What connects her artwork are the feeling for the right composition, the photorealism as well as the used technique; a mix out of brush and airbrush mostly in black and white. The need to care for nature and its creations runs through her works like a red thread. Charity for the good cause is a big part in her live, both in the academic as well as in the artistic profession. Out of all revenues gained through her art sales ½ to ¼ is used to support non-profit projects and institutions. More information about her initiative, which bridges the gap between art and charity is found on the artist’s website (www.nelumboart.com).

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