Beatrix Ost is an artist, writer, fashion designer, and ambassador of peace.
She has written screenplays, produced movies and theater, and acted in films
and on the stage. Beatrix arrived in New York as an immigrant from Germany as
a young adult in the 70’s. Her love for art quickly took root and she used her
love of visual rhetoric to serve fashion icons. She continues to do so to this day
and works with major actors and designers such as Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.
Ost has remained an influential and acclaimed luminary in both the fashion and art world.
Ost was educated at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts where she studied with Oskar Kokoschka
at his Schule des Sehens. She has held a residency at New York Academy of Art and has exhibited internationally. Her latest books includes The Philosopher’s Style, a compilation of interviews that redefine “style,” focusing on the beauty of community by spotlighting the stories of strangers Ost meets in NYC’s Central Park. Throughout the book, Beatrix converses with many inspiring individuals from a neurologist seeking the cure to Alzheimer’s, to photographer and amputee, Giles Duley. Previous publications include her books “More than Everything” and “A Piece of Me.”
" Provocation is part of the game: my way of self-evidently being myself is, willy nilly, a challenge to the established network of symbols, just as it is when I present myself at
a party with a brooch inscribed “Practicing silence”.
I become a listener. I paint as I dress: with playful order
and a feel for disorder. I like it when fabric succumbs to extended use, and the same goes for the canvas. I play on it
as if on an instrument between feeling and vision, I notice everything and more, and store it in my senses, visual and other. I enjoy the overflow of the moment, when the visual weds the emotional. As if I had eyes in my back. I feel everything fits together, because every moment is laden with endless possibilities.
There is a huge circus round about me, like an existential storm with the artist in the eye of it, in complete silence. Even the most elementary moments of life. I love waking up in the morning, lying back down in the evening. The face of the waiter is a drama of its own, the hairdresser a whole invention in herself, a film scene.
I paint as thoughts roll by in all directions, in an unlimited cascade. I can amuse myself with what is happening around me or not, what is or what could be. I set the stage with my theme. I sink pillars with my variations. Then I let things happen on the canvas, and as I paint, sub-melodies and subplots emerge from the great unconscious sea in which
we are all swimming, and display themselves on the beach."
