Andrea Loefke is a German born sculptor/installation artist with a Masters degree in art education from Leipzig, Germany and an MFA in sculpture from Ohio State University, Columbus. After moving to New York in 2003, she immediately was awarded a residency at the MacDowell Colony, NH, as well as a one-year studio residency at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY. Since then she has shown extensively at different venues in New York, as well as across the United States and Germany. Among those, Michael Steinberg Gallery, NY, PH Gallery, NY, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago, the Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA and Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany. Numerous reviews in Artforum, Sculpture, Brooklyn Rail, and Frankfurter Allgemeine have accompanied her solo exhibitions and a lengthy feature was published in Sculpture’s May 2008 issue. That same year Loefke received an invitation by the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE for a 3-month residency and proceeded with a first time collaborative performance project, “Ausflug ins Gruene” with the University of Michigan. In summer 2009, Loefke was commissioned to create a site-specific, permanent installation for the SØR Rusche Collection in Berlin, Germany. In March 2010, she received the prestigious Pollock Krasner Foundation Award.

Currently Loefke is working as an adjunct professor in Sculpture at Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts in New York.

 Artists Statement

"...........once upon a time there was a world: whimsical, humorous, credulous, intimate, alien, glittering and obscure. In Loefke’s work, fictional narratives, dream worlds with anchors in the real, occupy a space between familiarity and fantasy. The groupings of objects and their placement in space become a journey of discovery. These fairy-like worlds are complex structures, resulting in playful, mysterious landscapes often with a strong sense of foreboding – the primary narrative holds a secondary within. She develops pathways for the viewer to travel. She links micro with macro worlds, the 2-dimensional with the 3-dimensional, encourages notions of irritation, and implied movement of the objects, and asks the viewer to relate oneself to the objects and the situations they present. Loefke’s main interest is to cultivate our human ability to fantasize, freely associate, create, be irrational and subjective and to allow an all-embracing experience"