In March this year, I spent a month as a resident at Lichtenberg Studios, a wonderful production space in Berlin. I wanted to dedicate this time to drawing, a practice that I do regularly, but which is very time-consuming – actually ideal for a month of “free time”.
But everything turned out differently on site. Spring announced itself and the energy drove me to work more spontaneously, to produce faster, to experiment.
The time set aside for drawing turned into a studio where I mainly painted and cut. The stay in Lichtenberg enabled me to devote myself entirely to two artistic practices with which I am not very familiar – miniature painting with nature motifs that presented themselves to me outside my window and in the neighborhood, and collage, for which I collided the most diverse sources that I found in Lichtenberg (old issues of Der Spiegel, a film encyclopedia, local advertising and information newspapers, etc.).
I showed these works in the exchange exhibition with Ulrike Mohr at DIEresidenz in Die, France. In retrospect, this exhibition, these new series are in my eyes the “trailer” for an artist’s book that I would like to publish. The work continues…
