About me
I am a Berlin based visual artist working with painting and mixed media.
At the center of my work are three interconnected themes: the transformation of perception, the tension between destruction and preservation, and the search for an underlying, unseen order. My approach to these themes is shaped by personal experience. I grew up close to nature and early on became aware of how different life realities can be. Experiences of rupture, displacement and the continuation of life afterwards continue to inform my work. These aspects do not appear as narrative motifs but are embedded in the structure of the images themselves, in ruptures, layers and the handling of material.
In my work, I translate landscape, natural fragments and figurative elements into abstract visual structures that move to varying degrees away from representation. From this, recurring motifs develop such as fragmented landscapes, inorganic structures and hybrid, partly animal-like forms.
The fragmented landscape forms a central pictorial space that is in constant flux and resists fixed spatial orders. Within this space, different forms and states can emerge.
Animal-like forms appear in particular as winged figures and occasionally as horse-like shapes. They function both as concrete motifs and as condensed expressions of movement and perception.
Inorganic structures, sometimes grid-like or pixel-like, stand in contrast to the organic forms derived from landscape and animal motifs. They deliberately structure or disrupt the pictorial space and introduce an ordering, analytical element into the work.
I begin without a predetermined outcome and allow forms to emerge through layering, revision and an ongoing dialogue with the image. Many of my works develop over extended periods of time. I leave them aside, return to them, rotate them, observe them from a distance and respond to what has already taken shape. The process involves both construction and reduction of layers through adding, removing, covering and revealing. For me, painting is not about depicting an idea but about allowing an image to take form through continuous engagement.
Material does not serve a purely technical function but plays a conceptual role in my work. To achieve specific tactile and visual qualities, I work with both classical painting techniques such as drawing, oil, watercolor, pigment and pastel, as well as with contemporary and experimental methods including acrylic, lacquer, additives and epoxy resin. In my epoxy works, cracked and broken structures are embedded and sealed within the material, creating an additional layer.
In some works, fragments of existing poems appear in gilded Kurrent script. The combination of rough fissures, a sanded surface with a wax-like appearance and delicate gilded writing creates a tension that is only possible through the deliberate interaction of different materials and their specific properties.
My practice is long-term and based on continuous work, observation and development. Individual works are part of an ongoing process that unfolds across series.
A concise overview of exhibitions, education and artistic development can be found in my CV.