Aga Cela  - About

Born as Angelika Classen in 1959 in Heinsberg, Germany

Artist since childhood

Self-taught training and continuous work, especially in the creation of portraits,

all free time is used for drawing and painting

2001 marriage (against the initial resistance of the family) with the artist Leon Daemen

Regular studio exhibitions with Leon Daemen about every two years

Membership in NABK (Nationale Associatie voor Beeldend Kunstenaars) 2011-2024

Inclusion in the NABK yearbooks in 2013 and 2020

Article in ArtisSpectrum, New York 2009

2009 Exhibition in New York, Agora Gallery

Article in Realism magazine Edition 2010/11

Publication of the book "Portrait Painting" boekscout 2011

Exhibition in s’Hertogenbosch with Leon Daemen, new place Art Gallery 2014

Exhibition Terpkerk Urmond 2016 with Leon Daemen

Exhibition in museum van de vrouw, Echt in 2107

widowed since 2018

Exhibition together with works by Leon Daemen, Terpkerk Urmond 2019

Publication of the book “Peyer Psalmen” 2018

Publication of the book "Winterfarben" 2019

2019 Entry of the artist name in the identity card 

2020 Nomination in the Jan Mankes art competition

Acquisition of the picture “approaching Joseph Beuys” by the Beuys archive.

Participation in the Limburg Biënnale, Maastricht

 

2021 Participation in the exhibition:

Brabantse prijs voor de rooms-katholieke schilderkunst in Aarle Rixtel

Member of KC 61(kunstcorridor 61)

2021 August -September group exhibition with  KC 61 in Urmond (Terpkerk)

2021 September – October group exhibition with  KC 61 in Roermond (Achterhuis)

2022 April Denkmalkirche Hükelhoven (exposition of the drawings “Peyer Psalmen”

2022 October – group exhibition  with KC 61 in Rolduc

2022 October -   participation Weekend van het Portret,  Nederlandse Portretprijs Amsterdam

2023 April  - Atelier op Tafel Museum Valkenburg

2023 Augustus online exhibition HMVCgallery New York

2023 1-17 september expositie met K61 in Sittard Mariapark


2023-2024  (12 november - 14 januari)

Member of the exposition „Tabula rasa“ in Valkenburg Museum


2024, 9th - 14th February London Boomer gallery exposition „The dark side“


2024 August – … drawings from concerts “Kultkefee” in Stadhoes Echt


2024, 11-21October Terpkerk Urmond group exhibition with  KC 61