PORTFOLIO
PAPYRUS SERIES
Beside clay tablets and animal skins (parchment) as writing media, the first percursors of paper were used in Egypt
3000 years ago. They were made from glued fibres of the papyrus plant, which also gave the material its name.
With my papyrus series, I go back to the beginnings of paper as a material and experiment with its production, leaving the plant material visible and playing with shapes, colours and textures.
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Papyrus 10
Plantpaper on cardboard
21 x 29 cm
2024
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Papyrus 27
Plantpaper on cardboard
21 x 29 cm
2024
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Papyrus 12
Plantpaper on cardboard
21 x 29 cm
2024
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Papyrus 32
Plantpaper on cardboard
21 x 29 cm
2024
ECCE HOMO
Block "Reflexion":
Ecce Homo 7
Acrylic and thread on Papercut
21 x 29 cm
2023
Block "Reflexion":
Ecce Homo 3
Acrylic and Marker on Papercut
21 x 29 cm
2023
Block "Reflexion":
Ecce Homo 2
Acrylic on Papercut
21 x 29 cm
2023
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Interwoven 4
Cyanotype on paper
with integrated poem
24 x 32
2023
My cyanotype-series "Interwoven" is an ode to nature and our inseparable bond with it since the dawn of mankind.
Those close ties are also expressed by the integrated texts, consisting of own poems and found informations from my countless plant-researches.
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Interwoven 3
Cyanotype on paper
with integrated poem
24 x 32
2023
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Interwoven 5
Cyanotype on paper
with integrated text
24 x 32
2023
ABOUT MY „Ikonen ohne Namen“ („Icons without names“)- SERIES:
This (since 2022) ongoing series is based on mass media imagery. Photos of crises, catastrophes and human suffering replacing each other in an endless succession. Seen today and tomorrow- with the next hype- already pushed to the background again. Situations which continue but don’t have images anymore. Images which seem so clear from a distance but stay so blurred on a closer look, as most of the faces have no name. You see their condition, but you don’t see them. Floating impressions, shadows of reality, anonymous icons of incidents.
My pixels mimic the visual language of digital media. However, where media uses pixelation to either shield or shame I repurpose it as a mode of reference and critique to reflect the anonymity and abstraction imposed by mass media. And moreover: pixels are anonymity. But aren’t they as well like the countless facets of our world, the flood of informations, from which we have to form the picture of a reality beyond our personal experience?
The word icon derives from the ancient greek "eikon", which meant (true) image, resemblance- contrary to the word eidolon, later idolon, "illusion or dream image" (idol) and eidos, later idos, "archetype, shape, type" in Platons dialogues translated as idea.
Only since the 6th century the word eikon was established exclusively for a religious work of art, a sacred image.
To work on this series is intriguing. Like walking a thin line between figurative and abstract. Sometimes I don't care where I end up, but most works finally merge both: viewed from a distance, the figurative is present, but dissolves by approaching into abstraction- countless pixels, each with its very own information.
Block "Fluss" (ambigous meaning river or flow)
:
Ikonen ohne Namen XXXIII
(icons without names)
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 70 cm
2023
Block "Fluss" (ambigous meaning river or flow):
Ikonen ohne Namen XVI
(icons without names)
Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 70 cm
2022
Block "Fluss" (ambigous meaning river or flow):
Ikonen ohne Namen I
(icons without names)
Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 40 cm
2022
Block "Sub Rosa":
Untitled (Series of 17)
Chlorine Bleach and Pencil
on black Cardboard
14,8 x 21 cm
2022
(written is Psalm 103,15:
As for man- his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and the place where it once grew remembers it no more.)
These black-and-white works are drawings made with Q-tips, drenched in chlorine bleach, on black cardboard. They explore the personal experiences and moments in life, that leave a lasting impression and often are „branded“ in your mind and soul.
Block "Sub Rosa":
Untitled (Series of 17)
Chlorine Bleach and Colored Pencil
on black Cardboard
14,8 x 21 cm
2022
Block "Sub Rosa":
Untitled (Series of 17)
Chlorine Bleach
on black Cardboard
14,8 x 21 cm
2022
The works belong to my work-complex „Sub Rosa“. The rose, and especially the white rose, has an ancient history as a symbol of secrecy. On the confessionals in christian churches was often a carved rose. Sub rosa (for "under the rose") denotes secrecy or confidentiality.
Block "Fluss" :
Icon-Series
Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 40 cm
2022
The Icons series (not finished yet) plays with all those symbols, which are developing in our computer age to a new- worldwide comprehensible- form of communication and examines its possibilities as a means of expression/semiotics.
ABOUT MY „Fading Life“ -SERIES: Extinction of species is a natural process, but recent estimations of the WWF state, that the man-made extinction rate exceeds the natural one by 100-1000 times.
On the international Red List of the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), from 143.000 listet species ~ 40.000 species are endangered in various grades (as of 2021).
In addition, from an estimated 8-10 million species on earth there are only 2 million scientifically known and thus visible.
With my Fading Life series I wanted to give those dry numbers a face: 40 paintings for 40.000 species listed as globally endangered. The motifs of the acrylic paintings are rendered in opaque layers of color, whereafter a translucent layer of paint is applied to the canvas, partially shading the motif.
The degree of the threat is shown by the width of the shading screen: VU =vulnerable EN =endangered
CR =critically endangered EW =extinct in the wild
The color of the screen shows the cause of the threat:
RED= fire YELLOW= habitat loss
PURPLE= pollution
BLUE= industry expansion
BROWN= trade, poaching
GREEN= invasive species
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Fading Life II
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm
2021
The first 4 paintings of "Fading Life" are a prologue to this series about the threat of extinction and developed during my research into the consequences of climate change, for example the intensifying natural disasters like wildfires, leading me to the IUCN Red List of endangered species.
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Fading life VI
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm
2021
Lau Banded Iguana / Kurzkamm-Leguan
Fiji (Lau Islans)
IUCN Status: EN (-dangered)
Yellow shading screen:
Habitat loss (Various causes)
Block "Grund"(Ground):
Fading Life XI
Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 40 cm
2021
American burying beetle / Amerikanischer Totengräber
USA
IUCN Status: CR (-itically endangered)
Blue shading screen:
Habitat loss by industrie expansion
Block "Grund" Ground):
No title
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 50 cm
2021
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Leben (Life), series of 15
watercolor on paper
24 x 32 cm
2021
Block "Sub Rosa":
Der Brunnen (the well) IX, series of 12
watercolor on paper
24 x 32 cm
2021
Block "Sub Rosa":
Das Gespräch (the conversation), series of 16
watercolor on paper
24 x 32 cm
2021
Block "Fluss" (ambigous meaning river or flow):
Endless fluid / Endloses Fluidum, series of 9
watercolor and felt pen on paper
24 x 32 cm
2021
Block "Sub Rosa":
Bagage X (ambiguous, meaning baggage/clan/mob)
series of 18
watercolor on paper 32 x 24 cm
2021
From childhood on there are impressions, experiences, passions, which coin and form us emotionally and mentally and which we carry with us through life. But just like every person has its own, deeply individual history, it overlaps with universal themes, which acompany mankind since its early days. In this series I'm on a quest for what determines us as individuals, as humans, as mankind.
Block "Reflexion":
Negativ
Acrylic on canvas
(6 paintings completed, series not finished yet)
18 x 24 cm
2017
This painting is part of a series about suffering and violence. Photos served as models which were changed into negatives. I choose this form, because this made it possible, to span a bridge between the individual fate and a more universal, iconic symbol for the vast number of victims.
Block "Sub Rosa":
In mir gefangen
rust, chlorine bleach, pencil
15,3 x 20,2 cm
2017
Block "Spuren" (Traces):
Faulwasser und Dornenbaum
(Rotten water and thistle tree)
imprints from nature and pencil
14,3 x 19,5 cm
2005
These works were created in the tropics. After the long rainy season the drought begins and all trenches with stagnant water start to dry out. Now the rotting of plant material in the water intensifies and often leads to a very thin film with an iridescent shimmer (which I called rotten water). On the papers I recorded the immediate impressions of the surrounding nature: the iridescent film on the water, carefully absorbed with the paper, the dye from a wet seed capsule of the sandbox tree (Hura crepitans) placed on it and the perforations from its spiny trunk in the paper.
Block "Spuren" (Traces):
Fossilien
mixed media
(felt pen, pencil, wax)
14,9 x 20,9cm
2005
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Virus
Berries of the nightshade and pencil
15 x 20,9cm
2005
Block "Grund" (Ground):
Fireplace / Feuerstelle
burned paper with soot and copper powder
14,7 x 19,2 cm
2005
Block "Fluss" (ambigous meaning river or flow):
No title
felt pen on paper
14,9 x 20,9 cm
2005
Block "Grund" (Ground):
No title
Oilpastel on black cardboard
50 x 35 cm
1990
No title
walnut pigment and oil pastel on paper
32 x 50 cm
1990
No title
walnut pigment and oil pastel on paper
32 x 50 cm
1990
Block "Grund" (Ground):
No title
Oilpastel on black cardboard
50 x 36 cm
1989
Block "Grund" (Ground):
No title
watercolor on paper
29,8 x 39,9cm
1989
No title
watercolor on paper
36 x 48 cm
1988
No title
colored pencil on black cardboard
35 x 50 cm
1988
No title
colored pencil on black cardboard
27,7 x 20,3 cm
1987
EXHIBITIONS
(Selection)
GROUP-EXHIBITIONS:
21.06.2025 -
02.07.2025
Hub/Art, Barcelona
"Freedom and Beauty:
the language of art"
20.06.2025 -
29.06.2025
Lite-Haus Galerie,
Berlin
"June-Exhibition"
07.06.2025 -
21.06.2025
Spazio 57, Naples
"A Change of Time"
08.03.2025 - 15.03.2025
Borgo Pio Gallery, Rome
"God is Woman"
11.02.2025 - 22.02.2025
CMC-Centro Culturale di Milano
"ArteMida Art Expo"
09.11.2024 - 15.11.2024
Museo Arte e Scienza, Milan
"DreamArs V"
18.10.2024 - 25.10.2024
Galleria La Pigna, Rome
"Echoes of Now"
during Rome Art Week
05.09.2024 - 21.09.2024
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
"September Group Show"
01.06.2024 - 12.06.2024
Chromart Space, Berlin
"Home - a journey to
identity and belonging"
12.03.2024 - 23.03.2024
Spazio Arte Tolomeo, Milan
"Be the Change"
07.12.2023 -12.12.2023
Crypt Gallery, London
"On Tour London"
30.11.2023-30.12.2023
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
"Year End 2023"
09.11.2023-22.22.2023
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
"Natur"
11.08.2023 -25.08.2023
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
"Coloricious"
28.06.2023-03.07.2023
Villa Gori, Stiava (Tuscany)
"V Biennale Internazionale D'arte Contemporanea della Versilia"
20.05.2023 -30.05.2023
Galleria Merlino, Florence
and
Galleria Mentana, Florence
"Itinerari Artistiche"
04.05.2023-20.05.2023
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
"Vivid"
19.04.2023-03.05.2023
Chromart Galerie, Berlin
"Voices"
10.02.2023-12.02.2023
The Ballery, Berlin
"Exhibition 5"
15.12.2022-14.01.2023
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
"Year End"
07.12.2022 -21.12.2022
Chromart Galerie, Berlin
"Secrets of the Forest" 13.10.2022-29.10.2022
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
"Die Farbe"
17.02.2022-19.03.2022
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
"Crazy Color II"
02.12.2021-29.01.2022
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
"Crazy Color"
30.09.2021-09.10.2021
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
"Small Works"
SOLO-EXHIBITIONS:
09.01.2025 - 31.01.2025
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
23.11.2022 - 24.01.2023
Cafe Tasso, Berlin
06.08.2022 - 20.09.2022
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
PUBLICATIONS:
A Change of Time
Naples:
Exhibition Catalogue
ArteMida Art Expo Milan:
Exhibition Catalogue
DreamArs V:
Exhibition Catalogue
Be the Change:
Exhibition Catalogue
55 Artists to discover
2024 edition:
Book
Chromart- Digital Chroma Magazine,
Issue February 2023:
Interview
My works are in private collections.