Cornelia Schleime is one of the most important artists of our time. Her subjects are almost always women, in painting, drawings and watercolours. Her figures are based as much on the eroticism of the line as on a mythical interplay of the human being and the animal being.
Her pictures, some of which are large in scale, exert a fascination that cannot be escaped. Cornelia Schleime achieves something special: she knows instinctively how to generate the individual in an explosion of colour, immerse a body line into a reflection of light and integrate actions into the intimacy of a self-reflection.

Biography
1953 born in East Berlin  
1975–1980 studies in graphic art and painting, HfBK Dresden  
since 1981 prohibition of exhibitions in GDR  
1984 move to West Berlin, complete loss of her previous oeuvre  
numerous prizes, work and travel grants and workshops e. g. 1989 PS1 – scholarship for New York  
awards among others: Gabriele Münter Prize (2003), Fred Thieler Prize (2004), Award of excellent painting, National Art Museum of China (2005)