Reigen. 2005.
Acrylic, shellac and asphalt varnish on canvas.
Signed and dated on the reverse. 160 x 200 cm (62.9 x 78.7 in).

• Privately-owned since it was made.
• Large work from the series "Love Affairs" in which the artist committed to sensual-intimate and erotic motifs.
• Through the special materiality of the uneven and pastose surface the artist creates a fascinating haptic appeal.
• In 2005 the artist was called to teach at the Münster Art Academy.
• In 2020/21 Cornelia Schleime's works were shown in the exhibitions "Berührend. Annäherung an ein wesentliches Bedürfnis" in the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, and in "We Never Sleep" at the Frankfurt Schirn Kunsthalle.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin.
Private collection Austria (acquired from above in 2005).

EXHIBITION: Cornelia Schleime. Love Affairs, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, April 26 - May 27, 2008; Kunsthalle Tübingen (with different title "Blind Date"), June 7 - September 7, 2008, pp. 54f. (with full-page illu.).