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Short biography

Cornelia Es Said (*1964, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany) is a figurative painter working from the B.L.O. Ateliers in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Her oil paintings examine power structures, human identity, and societal fractures—from the banality of industrial violence (The War Machine) to purchasable anonymity (Big Money Bauta) and archaic coping strategies for the present (Digital Shamans).

Es Said’s perspective on power and systems was shaped by studies in social sciences at Humboldt University; her commitment to artistic freedom outside institutional frameworks by the squatter movement in early 1990s East Berlin. After years in technical project management and online marketing, she turned to painting full-time.

Her work has been shown at Haus der Stadtgeschichte Offenbach (Rosenheim Art Prize 2025) and Alte Münze Berlin, among others. In 2025, she received the Singulart Art Prize for International Women’s Day.

Selected reporting

2025: RuhrCampusOnline | Singulart Kunstpreis Frauentag
2025: Lange Nacht der Bilder | B.L.O. Ateliers
2024: Radio 3 (rbb) | Pop-Up Gallery Lichtenberg
2024: Berliner Woche | Pop-Up Gallery Lichtenberg
2024: Berliner Zeitung | Künstlerische Intervention Bahnhof Schöneweide
2024: Bezirksamt Lichtenberg (berlin.de) | Pop-Up Gallery Ring-Center
2020: Video-Porträt zur Langen Nacht der Bilder (Alexandra von der Heyde)
2019: Der Tagesspiegel | B.L.O.-Ateliers, Künstlerporträt
2018: Ostseezeitung | Ausstellung Steinfurth