GABRIELA DREES-HOLZ
OBJECT, TEXTILE, INSTALLATION ART, CERAMICS
With my objects and installations, I invite you to enjoy, marvel, participate... and: to reflect on our environment.
To do this, I use unusual mostly recyclable materials such as aluminum coffee capsules, original rescue blankets, but also wool, fabrics, wire, clay, concrete, and I also appeal to the senses through light, scent, and sound.
I create my colorful and vibrant works of art mostly from recyclable materials such as fabrics and coffee capsules.
The resulting ceramics, textile objects, and installations are diverse, extraordinary, and always full of imagination, magic, and joie de vivre.
With this diversity, I would like to invite the viewer to a feast for the senses and encourage them to develop a new sensitivity for our environment and biodiversity.
Born in 1955
1974-79 Studies: German language and literature, Romance languages, geography Until 2015 Teaching at secondary school, retired senior teacher
2008-2012
Part-time art studies: Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Werkhaus, Bonn-Alfter
Since 2012
Founded and managed Kunsthaus DREHO, Korschenbroich – Liedberg
Founding member of various local artist groups
Breaking world, 1st Sculpture Prize, Landscape Art Exhibition, Artistspacegalleryonline, 2023
The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, Honorable Mention Award, 6th Animal Art Competition, Art Show International Gallery, 2023
Destroyed, Displaced, Biafarin, digital exhibition, theme Anti War, 2022
… and still beautiful … 1- Artavita, Finalist Award, Theme Hope, 2022 2- Biafarin, digital exhibition, Theme Women, 2021
The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing Honorable Mention Award, 6th Animal Art Competition, Art Show International Gallery, 2023
Destroyed, Displaced, Biafarin, digital exhibition, theme Anti War, 2022
… and yet beautiful … ,1- Artavita, Finalist Award, Theme: Hope, 2022 2- Biafarin, digital exhibition, Theme: Women, 2021
Encapsulated Universe, Finalist Prize, Artist of the Year, Artavita, 2021
Capsule Cloud, Finalist Prize, Grey Cube Gallery, 2021
Beautiful Childhood, Finalist Certificate, Art Room + Grey Cube Gallery, 2021
Penetration, 1- Artist of the Year, World of Arts, 2020 2- Certificate of Excellence, Art in the Time of Coronavirus, Circle Foundation of the Arts, 2020
World in Folds, Third Prize, Gallery Velorose, London, 2020
Yucatan Greets the World, Third Prize, Leonardo da Vinci Prize, 2019
Dementia Capselentia, Best Artist of The Year, 2019
"I admire her creativity and the uniqueness of her artwork. She always has fascinating, impressive, and very special ideas. With great perseverance, she remains true to herself and her style, yet she is open to new things and new paths. She is a free spirit."
Sculptures
Discover a wide variety of three-dimensional objects made from aluminum coffee capsules, fabrics, wool, carpets, traditional weaving and embroidery from other cultures, mannequins, wood, metal, and much more.
installations
Experience a feast for the senses and participation in my diverse installations. The starting point was 2012 “Conducting the Senses,” 2013 “Pillow Art,” 2014 “Time and Space,” 2022 “Golden Boat, Noah’s Ark of the 21st Century,” 2023+24 various butterfly events, 2024 “Black Magic Cube.”
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!
I urgently need another 10,000 donated, used, dried, and non-moldy aluminum coffee capsules for an XXXXL capsule project (a walk-in golden coffee capsule with magical capsule trees inside). Please drop them off at my place (Haagweg 1, 41352 Korschenbroich).
"She consciously incorporates the environment as a theme, creating enormous objects from countless, suggestive small elements. The cushion sculptures, with their thousands of pinholes and stitches, symbolize the damage inflicted on our planet. A similar concept is present in her work with aluminum coffee capsules, for example, on the large sphere. Gabriela works on her ideas spontaneously, devotedly, and with great concentration. Her workday lasts more than 24 hours. She processes memories with melancholy, but also with pride, transforming, for example, old fabrics, lace doilies, and buttons into extraordinary objects."
exhibitions 2025 + 2026
My contribution: “Making a plate – hitting rock bottom” Installation with a homeless person/ sturdy footwear recommended
Art House Dreho – Inside and Outside
The Arthouse Dreho in Korschenbroich-Liedberg sees itself as a venue for visual arts.
The house and its picturesque garden, complete with a view of Liedberg Castle, are a cultural highlight with regular exhibitions featuring German and international artists and small garden concerts, see participation in “Avant Garten.”
"I got to know Gabriela as a courageous, adventurous fighter and an optimistic free spirit. She is curious (in the truest sense of the word), versatile, and ambitious. She constantly seeks and finds new inspiration for her own art and always appreciates other artists. She enjoys connecting her work with environmental issues. In short: a role model for everyone, both as a person and as an artist."