Sigefride Bruna Hautman

Poetry captured in images – this is an apt description of Sigefride Bruna Hautman’s work. She has been making sculptures, reliefs, installations, videos, drawings, collages and textual work since the 1980s. Her oeuvre is distinctly figurative and moves between hyperrealism and stylization, between legibility and symbolism, simplicity and complex layering.  

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Hautman often creates interrelated series. Themes such as social outrage, existential questions and family or interpersonal relationships run like a connecting thread through her practice. She draws inspiration from art, music and literature, citing influences as diverse as Giotto, Oskar Schlemmer, Samuel Beckett and David Bowie.