My artistic practice is fundamentally serial and process-based, and I understand my work as an ongoing, research-driven practice that evolves through new material experiences, technical experiments, and conceptual shifts. Working at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and craft, I often use everyday, discarded, and reused materials. Through manual processes of layering, casting, milling, and assembling, these raw materials are transformed into highly artificial, decorative surfaces.

My current work combines explicit, reduced, or fragmented figures with seemingly harmless, colorful, and kitschy surfaces, creating a deliberate tension between decoration and content. Many of these works begin as digital collages based on online imagery, which are then translated into physical objects. Through this contrast between digital image culture and a raw, handcrafted DIY aesthetic, I explore themes of physicality, identity, and social roles. By wrapping these themes in bright pastel colors and glossy surfaces, I want to show how something that looks beautiful and decorative at first glance can simultaneously feel irritating or uncomfortable.

Meisterschueler

Diploma Fine Arts 2025
University of Fine Arts Dresden



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