Painting 2026

 

Land by the water

With these new works, I am consistently continuing my series “Associative Landscapes”, which I began in 2025. The starting point is my observations of and photographs of landscapes, which are increasingly transformed during the painting process. Through overlays, blending colour fields and freely associated landscape elements, the motifs detach themselves from their original context and develop their own atmospheric visual language.

An essential part of the working process is the repeated rotation of the canvases whilst painting. This shifts perspectives and spatial reference points; horizons dissolve and new pictorial contexts emerge. Reflections, shadows and fragments of landscape thus appear deliberately ambiguous and elude a fixed location.

As in earlier works, different temporal planes, memories and perceptions overlap to form visual worlds situated between reality and imagination. The series operates at the intersection of contemporary landscape painting and poetic abstraction, opening up multi-layered spaces of association for the viewer.

 

Wieker Bodden – Winter 2026

In the winter of 2026, the Baltic Sea around Rügen froze over completely in many places for an extended period. This series of works was created following a walk along the Wieker Bodden, an inland waterway on Rügen that had been covered by a solid layer of ice from early on.

The impressions of this quiet, almost monochrome winter landscape are incorporated into the works. Minimalist forms, large light surfaces and subtle shades of red and green condense the memory of light, cold and vastness into calm, open pictorial spaces. Landscape appears not as a concrete representation, but as an atmospheric experience situated between perception, memory and abstraction.