Born 1950 in Vienna, Austria
elisabeth.slavkoff@a1.net
After an international career as lawyer, diplomat and European official became a full time artist in 2001.
2005 MA from Courtauld Institute of Art, London
2012 Studied Calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting at the China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou
2015 Artist in Residence at the Art Students League in New York with the painting project The Dao of Nature
2017 Publication of Die Weisheit des Laozi (Bacopa Verlag) together with Wang Jing, an illustrated poetic translation of the Dao De Jing from Mandarin into German.
2018 Reconnects with Iberoamerican culture and her friend and former Professor of Modernist Poetry, the painter-poet José Antonio Cáceres whose Autosugestión, Poesías completas (Editora Regional de Extremadura, Mérida) inspire a series of watercolours Dialogo con un poeta (Visor Libros).
2018 brought a reorientation towards the Pacific. During a voyage to the Marquesas in memory of her late husband Elisabeth met Dr.Eric Donelli who later became her personal physician and most trusted friend. Eric Donelli stood by her during a difficult time when friends and family deserted her because of imagined problems.
Elisabeth loved not only Bel Canto but also fell in love with the Italian language. She travelled extensively to Trieste, Sicily, Roma, Venice, Milano and participated in various group tours and Italian courses.
She decided to move to Lucca (Tuscany) and found a place with an art studio within the city walls.
Other publications
Chinese Intellectuals in Yang Fudong’s Work, A Western View, 2004 (Exhibition catalogue for Yang Fudong:
Alternative Modernity: Contemporary Art in Shanghai, 2005 (www.academia.edu)
Von der Propaganda zur Modernen Avantgarde: Chinas Revolutionskunst und ihre Symbole
(Essay, “Die Kultur der Kulturrevolution”, Snoek Publishers, Gent)
Faszination China ( Exhibition Catalogue, 2013)
Exhibitions in Belgium, Austria, US, UK
Languages: German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Mandarin, Italien (basic).