TECHNICAL HYBRID PAINTINGS

About the Work

The body of work consists of paintings combined with charcoal drawings that depict absurd hybrid organisms in which plant-based and technological elements merge. These pictorial bodies evade clear classification: they appear simultaneously organic and constructed, familiar and alien, alive and functional. The combination of painterly color and raw charcoal drawing creates a field of tension between control and chance, between elaboration and sketch.

In terms of content, the series addresses the increasing interpenetration of nature and technology. The depicted hybrids can be read as speculative bodies that follow neither a natural evolution nor a purely technical logic. They point to contemporary processes of transformation in which ecological systems, technological infrastructures, and human interventions are inextricably intertwined. The absurd functions here as an artistic strategy to destabilize habitual patterns of thought and to open up new perspectives on the relationship between nature, machine, and human.

Historically, the work can be situated within a lineage of surreal, biomorphic, and posthuman image traditions, ranging from early hybrid figures of modernism to contemporary artistic engagements with the Anthropocene. On a societal level, the series reflects the ambivalence of technological progress: between the hope for control and optimization on the one hand, and the experience of alienation, overload, and ecological crisis on the other.

The combination of painting and charcoal drawing emphasizes the processual character of the works. Visible layers, corrections, and ruptures point to the image as an open space for thinking. The works invite viewers to read hybrid forms not as finished designs, but as fragile, unstable states allegories of a present in which the boundaries between nature and technology are becoming increasingly porous.

Exhibtitions

2025 NATURAL EMPOWERMENT (Solo Exhibition), Magdalenenkapelle, Burgdorf, USA