Margarete Gockel

Margarete Gockel in the Studio 2018

Vita

Born in Gelsenkirchen
Studied Arts and Textile Design
Studied Communication Design
Freelance international illustrator and painter since 1987
Book and magazine illustrations worldwide, including:
Elle, Forbes, L.A.Times, Newsweek, NY Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Magazine, Wall Street Journal
National and international exhibitions since 1999
Living in Gelsenkirchen, Germany

2013/14 Project/Print-Release "A Winter in Paris" and "Très Chanel"
2014 Film projects, Debenhams, London
2014 Estee Lauder, USA, Cut Magazine
2015/16 Project/Exhibition "Across Poland With Best Fashion Illustration 2015/16", Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw, etc., Poland
2015-2023 LOOXX Magazine, Düsseldorf
2017-2026 Seidl Tracht, Graz
2020-2024 Gössl, Salzburg
2017 "fashion & faces", Kunstverein Bad Essen
2017/18 Project/Exhibition "Across Poland With Best Fashion Illustration 2017/18", Poland
2019 "icons", Gallery werkstatt, Gelsenkirchen
2019 "Paint It Black!", Volksbank Ruhr Mitte, Gelsenkirchen
2020 Video project "Favourite Black", Cultural Brewery Herne
2021 Video project "Adonis" in collaboration with filmmaker Lennard Lüning
2021 "stay visible", Emschertal-Museum Schloss Strünkede, Herne
2022 "Uniformly fundamentally different", Volksbank Immobilien, Mülheim
2023 "Shining from the Dark", Industrie-Club Friedrich Grillo, Gelsenkirchen
2023 Kunstspur Essen
2024 Film project "GE Artet - Margarete Gockel," Gelsenkirchen Cultural Office

2020 Grant of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
"Adonis"
2021 Grant of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
"Polychrome - Polyethnic - Polygender"
2022 Grant of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
"The Face as a Canvas"