Arbeiten/Works

Split Landscape

“Split Landscape” – Two views of a forest, of a mountain form a picture. And yet it is not a mirror image. If space-time is relative and the earth is unhinged, why should landscape always be linear and horizontal?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Málaga Park

The landscape as an appearance and metaphor of nature, even in its domesticated form of our western world, is like a mirror: a part of us and yet a stranger. We see in it what we would like to see and shape it accordingly . That is the essence of parks – nature, tamed, its horrors removed, leaving only serene beauty. But if you look closely, you can see that there is still a hint of wildness – the park is a double illusion: of nature in its pure form and of our ability to control it.

 

 

 

 

 

Cloud project

“Man-made” clouds – a tradition in painting for centuries, from baroque times onwards. In real life, man made clouds stem from power plants – up until today a total of 118 power plants in Germany still use fossil fuels to generate energy and emit emissions in the process.
 In my project, these cloud paintings appear romantic and peaceful, but the underlying reality is, in fact, not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forest/Wald

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
 ché la diritta via era smarrita.
Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura!

Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear.

(From Dante, La divina commedio, Canto I)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes on an imaginary journey

This series of paintings depicts some of the most desired and far away travel destinations and was inspired by advertisements, travel magazines and books.
 Travelling to foreign, exotic places has become a natural part of contempary life, taken for granted until the Corona 
pandemic put an immediate stop to the freedom of movement all over the world. What seemed part of a natural way of
 living for people of all social classes in Europe, had suddenly been taken away and replaced with
a nostalgia for travel and foreign places.
 But what is it exactly that we long for? Exploring in what way the longing for faraway places is represented by these images, one cannot 
help realize that the average image of travel destinations comes down to beach, sea and palms. If taken out of their 
larger context, the images become interchangeable: a beach is a beach is a beach, and our independence and individuality
 might just be an illusion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zone In-quiete/Unruhezonen