"In order to reach self-awareness you need to look behind the façade of your own mind, emotions and modes of thoughts. The play of front and back in my paintings is a stylistic device to show that it is worth taking a look behind one's own façade."
Belén, 2022
Anna-Belén Siegmann creatively known as Belén (born 1997 in Hamburg) is an emerging artist and graduate of the prestigious Royal College of Art in London. The RCA has been named the world's leading art and design university by the QS World University Rankings and is one of the top art schools in the world. Other Alumni include Henry Moore, David Hockney and Tracey Emin.
Inspired by Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke and Helen Frankenthaler, she has already developed a distinctive abstract style. For Belén, it is a way of expressing philosophical and spiritual themes that stem from her early studies in psychology.
She achieves this by experimenting with a combination of voluminous liquid colours that flow mesmerisingly into organic forms. Her non-traditional way of painting creates a dialogue between the freedom of experimentation and the precision of control and intention. In this way, her work becomes a dynamic conversation between the tangible and the intangible.
Collectors of her astehetically pleasing all-over paintings appreciate not only her theoretical ideas about art, but also Belén's bold approach to expressing her deep feelings and questions, which in turn lead to self-reflection in the viewer.
Her work is already in prestigious private collections, including the prestigious private art collection of Lord Davies of Abersoch CBE in London. In 2021 her work has also been selected to be exhibited at the Institut Français (Hamburg) on the occasion of its 70th anniversary in Germany. In 2024 she was selected for the exhibition 'Mouvement' in cooperation with the French Consulate and Institut français in Hamburg. Also in 2024, she had the great honor of being awarded the Lucy Halford Bursary Scholarship for her Master's program at the Royal College of Art in London.