About
“A good artist has more ideas than time.”
— Martin Kippenberger
Marcella Lassen is an artist at home in two cultural spheres - the Californian mindset and the European consciousness. These influences are an integral part of her work, and a significant factor contributing to the unique quality of her art.
Biography
2024
Move to Munich, to live and work, establishing new studio
2023
Closes Gallery Apart in Switzerland following covid pandemic
2016
Establishes Gallery Apart on the shores of Lake Constance, showing paintings and beaded artworks
2007
Move to Switzerland to live and work, with a studio close to St. Gallen
1991 - 1998
Master class for Monumental Painting, Flemish Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels: Graduate Degree
1987
Begins exhibiting
1975
Bachelor of Arts, Degree in Fine Arts and Art History (cum laude)
1971 - 1973
Student abroad: University of Vienna and
University of Applied and Contemporary Art
1970 - 1975
University of Southern California
1970
High School Diploma, Immaculate Heart High School, Los Angeles
Born in Los Angeles, California of German and Dutch heritage
Has lived and worked in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, USA.
Single and Group Shows in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Spain and U.S.A. Graphic works and paintings in private collections in U.S.A., Europe, Middle-East, Australia.
Public collections: Southwest German Art Foundation, MAC Museum, Germany, The Riemer Collection, U.S.A.
Exhibitions
2025
Gallery in the State Office for Digitization,
Broadband and Surveying "Munich Southside Quartett"
2016 - 2024
Gallery Apart, Berlingen/Switzerland
2017
Marcella Lassen "Natural Icons"
MAC Museum, Singen, Germany
Marcella Lassen
Galerie Loeffel, Basel, Switzerland
2016
Opening of own Gallery APART in Berlingen, Switzerland
2015
ART SPECTRUM at Art Basel Miami Beach, USA
Represented by artblend Gallery
ART HAMPTONS, Bridgehampton, New York, USA
represented by artblend Gallery
Agora Gallery, New York City, USA
"Mélange of Milieu"
2014
Zürichsee Galerie, Bäch, Switzerland
Marcella Lassen "More Icons"
Gallery Schoenenberger, Kirchberg/Wil, Switzerland
"New Works out of the Studios"
2013
Gallery Schoenenberger, Kirchberg/Wil, Switzerland
Marcella Lassen "Icons"
ManGallery in Lindau, Germany
"Power Women, both on and in front of the canvas"
2012
Art Association, Radolfzell, Germany
Villa Bosch
2011
26th Art Exhibition in Hilzingen, Germany
2010
ManGallery, Lindau, Germany
"The Best Of 2009 / 2010"
art Bodensee, Dornbirn, Austria
One Artist Show, represented by ManGallery
2009
ManGallery, Lindau, Germany
"Emotion and Body"
cutlog contemporary Art Fair, Paris, France
represented by ManGallery
25th Art Exhibition in Hilzingen, Germany
2008
ManGallery, Lindau, Germany
"Faces"
2007
ManGallery, Lindau, Germany
Gallery exhibition
Del Mese-Fischer Gallery, Seetal, Switzerland
Gallery Exhibition
24th Art Exhibition in Hilzingen, Germany
Gallery Schweikart, Radolfzell, Germany
"Figure-emphasized"
2006
International Art Fair in Salzburg, Austria
Seetal Art Competition, Switzerland
2005
Deutsche Bank, Singen, Germany
"Hamburger Art"
Night of the Museums, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Biennale in Florenz, Italy
2004
McDonalds, Berlin, Germany
Am Bahnhof Zoo, Kurfürsten Damm
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
— Lucian Freud