Vernissage

For Adelina, certain power also expresses itself as color. She concretizes her point of view in pictures. She emphasizes events that are not recognizable at first glance with strong colors in the background and composes the final image into a unity from the relationship of the different forms to each other. Behind what we think we see, there is often something completely different.

The artist creates works in which shading contrasts, intense color choices and strict geometry meet.

ART has always been the language of the soul, of emotions and one of the most complex forms of culture.

Every artist perceives the world in his own personal way and thus passes on art to his fellow human beings as a way of communication between hearts.

Adrian-Emanuel Dragos felt the magical call of color from a young age, drawing with pencil and watercolor from the age of 3 and discovering gouache a little later.

He was born on March 27, 1992 in the town of Resita in Romania, where he took part in many painting competitions at local schools and even national competitions.

He graduated from the Mathematics and Computer Science High School. He then attended the Faculty of Engineering in Computer Science, with a final specialization of Masters in Electronics.

As sometimes happens to some of us in life, Adrian-Emanuel also had to interrupt his dream of painting for a period of about eight years. After a sports accident, however, he had the epiphany to return to the easel. He felt divinity whispering to him to pick up the brush again, which filled him with joy.

In this way, he could and can express the creative fire that burns in his spirit and thus express his thoughts, dreams and feelings on canvas. As he himself says, he always paints according to his thoughts and emotions, which is why his paintings are different – abstract or conventional.

It cannot be said that he has already created his own, firmly defined style for himself, because the spontaneity and colors in his paintings reflect the dynamics of a moment.

As an author, he wants to have an indirect effect on the viewer with his paintings by giving them an idea of what he was feeling at that moment and thus showing them the journey of his thoughts.

I am a 26-year-old artist from Austria and specialize in black and white acrylic painting. My focus is on motorsport themes, which allow me to revive old childhood dreams and strong emotions in my works.

Through my art, I combine a fascination for speed, technology and dynamics with a timeless aesthetic, which is emphasized by the high-contrast black and white depiction. Each painting tells a story that expresses both nostalgia and a passion for motorsport.

Artistic focus: acrylic painting in black and white, with a special focus on motorsport motifs and their emotional impact.

Andreas Görzen, born 1986 in Kazakhstan (Karaganda), German artist in the field of Abstract Realism, lives and works in Hachenburg in the Westerwald district.

With his art, Andreas Görzen wants to revive people’s emotions and make their special moments everlasting.

His open-mindedness, joy of discovery and humanity allow him to see the whole world from a different perspective. He wants to share the fascination and enthusiasm he feels for these things with you through his motifs.

His pictures are big! colorful! and loud! They show the full joy of life, enthusiasm and freedom. Memories come back to life and give new vitality. Art is his passion, a satisfaction for his soul.

Art resonates by touching on something that moves the viewer. Be it great joy or times of great suffering. Her works reflect intense emotions that have been awakened through encounters with others.

Looking at her pictures should create a space in which you can let yourself go. A safe space. A space in where viewer and artist meet.

Her preferred materials are acrylic paint, graffiti spray and canvas. The series are as different as the emotional states from which they were created.

René Burjack was born in Heidelberg in 1978. From 2000 to 2005, he studied art with Prof. Mario Urlaß at the University of Education in Heidelberg. René Burjack then appeared in public with various art actions and different artist names.

Since 2011, he has created numerous works under the artist name BUJA.

BUJA stands for consistent painting that is positioned on walls in public spaces and at the same time unfolds its effect on traditional picture carriers. With the basic philosophy “Art should go to the people”, BUJA dissolves the boundaries between art and living space, showing his works not only in exhibition spaces and galleries, but also in urban spaces and off-spaces.

In his series of works, BUJA spans the spectrum from sensational media and world politics to pop culture and street art. Figures are taken out of their context, transformed, combined and rearranged. His works are large-format, explosive, bold and are reminiscent of the works of Michel Majerus, Andy Warhol, Sigmar Polke and Banksy.

BUJA’s works can be seen in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe, where they are promoted and represented by various galleries.
Many of his works can be found in private and public collections.

Carmen Monika Schlund, born in Heidelberg, lives and creates her works in Dielheim. As a founding member of the artist collective Ladies Rat Pack, she has made a name for herself not only through numerous successful calls for entries, but also through publications in books, magazines and newspapers.

Her art is a multi-layered world full of expression and emotion. Schlund works in abstract art and creates collages, paintings, installations and sculptures that impress with their versatility and joy of experimentation. At the same time, she writes poems, prose and short stories that underline her artistic vision.

Her choice of materials is just as varied as her techniques. Acrylic, oil, varnish, stone, marble powder, pigments, canvas, wood, paper, fabric and light merge in her hands to create unique works of art. Whether glazing, spatula technique, wet-on-wet painting, impasto or collage – Schlund uses every means to bring her ideas to life.

Her works are characterized by an unmistakable dynamism and power of colour. They transcend stylistic boundaries and invite viewers to embark on a journey between reality and imagination. With her art, she makes a powerful statement for freedom, tolerance and openness to the world. Her passion for color and her experimental approach are reflected in her intense use of color and free, expressive design, which deliberately defy stylistic rules.

Her glow art is a particularly unique feature. Under UV light, her pictures unfold a new dimension in which hidden secrets become visible and immerse the viewer in a fascinating world.

For Carmen Monika Schlund, art is more than mere expression – it is a message. In her own words:
‘Art is the food of the soul, the color of feelings and the inspiration of thoughts.

It is the breath of the divine, the sweat of work, the tears of passion and the color of dreams.

Art must kiss the soul!

The artist Georg Pummer confronts the inevitable transience artistically by integrating the principle of thoughtful preservation.

His extraordinary and at the same time fascinatingly irritating paintings have established him as a pioneer of the glitch style. In this style, deliberately integrated image disturbances are elevated to an aesthetic paradigm that defines a completely new visual concept.

Based on acrylic painting, the Austrian artist’s works are characterized by a striking video aesthetic that lends the works an almost digital appearance. The carefully created alienations and fragmentations appear almost as if they had been generated electronically.

When looking at them, associations with the typical image distortions of television sets or pixelations on displays that once inspired Georg Pummer to create his inspiring works involuntarily arise.

This artfully designed process of dissolution skillfully anchors what is depicted in surrealism, a movement that explores the border area between reality and the dream state.

Ina von Bierbrauer zu Brennstein is a sought-after and established artist who discovered her passion and love for abstract painting nine years ago.

In her studio in Bodenheim, the self-employed alternative practitioner for psychotherapy experiments with surprising and exciting combinations of intense, bold, bright colors and shapes to soft, calming nuances that create a balance between dynamism and tranquility.

Using brushes, palette knives and her own hands, she creates paintings with inspiring energy and harmony that tell stories and transport each viewer to another world. It is an exciting, intuitive process of which she herself says: “In the truest sense, the colors lead me and not I them.”

Her paintings can not only be seen in renowned galleries and exhibitions, but can also be found in many collections.

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The up-and-coming Mainz artist Isabelle Breitkopf always manages to inspire visitors with her colorful works.

Each of her works is a visual color battle. There are no boundaries, no rules, colors and shapes mingle and bring the canvas to life. Whether with rags, sponges, palette knives, paint rollers or other everyday objects, she uses any means to bring the complex structures of her abstract works to the canvas.

In addition, each of her works is given a unique and unusual title, with which the artist aims to make art more accessible to everyone.

The French-born artist lives and works in Mainz.

Sergejs Belovs, 38 years old, is the artist behind Karepa-Art with a preference for bold, vibrant colors.

His works are characterized by a playful use of shapes and a summery color palette – each painting brings lightness and freshness to the room.

His abstract paintings are not only works of art, but also unique interior elements that create atmosphere and bring a special flair to your rooms.

Lena Blaha (née Chekonina), born in 1978 in the Ukraine (Chernowitz) and grew up in Mongolia for the first 8 years of her life, has lived and worked in Mainz since 2002. Many journeys and long stays in other countries have strongly influenced her visual language and the content of her pictures.

Her motifs are full of energy and vibrancy. “For me, there is nothing better than making people happy with my passion.”
Her artistic work focuses on strong color contrasts, extreme cropping or strongly colored shadows. The juxtaposition of complementary colors, such as red and green, brings tension and power to her paintings. Rough brushstrokes and the random flow of color should remain visible in the works.

The power of color: “Color does not exist for itself, not outside in the world, but within us.” (Piet Mondrian)

Each of her paintings reflects a small piece of the place or people she has been to and met on her travels. Her works are as diverse and rich in contrast as life itself and yet refuse to be categorized.

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Imagine a dark night in 2007 when a dream changed my life forever. Night after night I was haunted by the vision of a large, bright green painting with a black heart. It was almost whispering to me, calling me to bring it to life.

Then one morning, fuelled by the intensity of the dream, I rushed to a shop and bought my first canvas, two acrylic paints and two brushes. With trembling hands and full of anticipation, I began to paint. Every brushstroke felt like magic, as if the picture from my dreams was finally becoming reality.

When I had finished, a piece of my soul seemed to have been transferred to the canvas. And then something incredible happened: someone from Switzerland saw my painting and bought it immediately. At that moment, I felt the incredible power of the creative process, the ability to create something beautiful, colourful and lasting.

I realised then that I was destined to be an artist, to bring wonderful images and emotions into the world. Every day since then has been an adventure, a journey into the infinite possibilities of creativity. Through my art, I don’t just paint pictures – I paint feelings, dreams and hopes for myself and for those who are touched by my work.

This is me, Martina Krone, on my way to make the world a brighter and more colourful place.

Melanie Pickard was born in Friedrichshafen in 1983.

In 2022 she started painting intensively, founded her own studio and her own label Mel.P.Arts In 2023 she started a correspondence course in painting and drawing at the ILS Hamburg.

She is inspired by modern pop art paired with abstract, colorful, poetic and figurative elements. Already as a child she loved to be creative. She used traditional painting techniques such as acrylic, spray and oil pastels. Melanie liked to try out new things. Her head is full of ideas that want to be put on canvas.

Her vision: Be unique and bring people together with the beauty of art.

Ever since he was a child, he felt a creativity within him, which he was able to live out in woodworking with his grandfather and in painting, accompanied by his mother.
He attended a painting school for several years in his youth, learning various techniques and how to use paints, brushes and palette knives.

Over the years, he has experimented a lot and now works mainly with oil paint. It is simply challenging to work with and takes a long time to dry, but this pays off in the end and is very different from acrylic painting.

Filling a white canvas with life is the challenge every time.

It gives him an incredible amount of freedom to live out this creativity. Combining colors to create contrasts, but also harmony and depth.

„Michel Friess is currently one of the most successful and important German and also international pop artists. In addition to countless awards and art prizes such as the international Leonardo Da Vinci Prize, the Frida Kahlo Prize, the international Art Prize New York … In November 2020, he was awarded the „Oscar of the Art Scene“ – „THE GLOBAL ART AWARD 2020“ – in Shanghai. – 1st place in the mixed media/graffiti category. With this, he finally emerged as the most successful representative of German contemporary pop art.

Michel Friess‘ works can now be found in many renowned galleries. In 2016, he made his international breakthrough. From Shanghai to Singapore, to Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles, Miami … his work now hangs alongside the truly great pop art icons like Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Banksy … in international galleries.

Born in the summer of 1970 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Michel Friess became interested in art, and especially street art, at a young age. At the age of 16, he could be found riding around on his skateboard and making graffiti art. After a long break in 2008, he completely devoted himself to pop art. A short time later, he succeeded in entering the professional art world with portrait work for prominent personalities.

Michel Friess produces his outstanding and elaborate unique pieces completely by hand in his studio in the southwest of Germany, in Kaiserslautern. His wife Mel assists him. The dedication to detail is unmistakable. His pictures tell stories; they capture the viewer and their thoughts. There is always something new to be discovered in them. His works are created through complex working techniques such as painting, the use of spray cans, hand screen printing, paint rollers, wild splashes of paint, as well as the use of iconic newspapers, posters, rare comic books … which make every work of art absolutely unique.

Already at his early youth he was attracted to street art. During his first years as an artist he became well-established for his impressive portrait-work of many well-know personalities published by his own „German Pop Art“ label.

His pieces of art are created by Michel Friess upon order as unique copies at his loft studio in Kaiserslautern, Germany, located in a former rasp factory from the 50ies. The spirit and flair of his almost legendary work place is coined and reflected in many of his works and motives. Many celebrities have seen his studio since.

The artist sets his value on complete handicraft. His famous works emerge from applying hand-silk-screen printing with every sieve being custom made from wood and stringed by the Friess himself. A very intricate method with up to 20 different sieves being used with one work of art.

Nikolay Ninov was born in Bulgaria on July 11, 1986.

He developed a passion for painting and invention at a young age. His education has nothing to do with art, he graduated from Navel Architecture and Navigation Professional High School (2000-2005) and has worked as an electrician, diver and welder in several countries in search of his passion.

This diversity later helped him to turn his passion into a vocation and create such works of art and sculptures from metal and electronics.
He creates unique pieces that are fascinating in a different and personal way. He has already taken part in various exhibitions and competitions here in Germany as well as in Greece and Bulgaria.

Today, some of his works can be found with customers in Switzerland, France, Italy, Bulgaria, the Cayman Islands, England, Germany and Greece.

I have been painting since I was a child. When I moved to Berlin at the age of 20, I discovered airbrushing as an additional enrichment for me. In the 10 years I lived in Berlin, I got to know many artists and decided, as a little rebel, that I wanted to remain self-taught.

After settling down in Rhineland-Palatinate, I made a name for myself as an airbrush artist and muralist. Gradually, I added bodypainting and painting houses and walls.

In 2015, I dedicated myself entirely to painting on canvas and after a curator noticed at my first exhibition that although I can paint beautifully, I don’t really have my own style. My style “Body Lines” was created, which I now produce by hand in my own studio in Pirmasens using mixed media on canvas. I want to prove that it is possible to bring emotion and a sense of space into a painting with just two colors. Black and white, good and evil, yin and yang, always mean for me to keep the balance in the picture.

As a rebel, I openly admit to making pleasing art, for me it is not a dirty word, but a task, it is important to me to make people happy with my art, without a philosophical background.

Rosie Tretter has always been fascinated by colors, their effects and expressive possibilities. How anything can emerge from nothing, a white surface.

For her, art is freedom. Reality and fantasy meet and merge into a new world, freeing the mind from its previous imagination, far from all constraints and rules.

Both the artist and the viewer enjoy this freedom – the artist in his ability to express himself, the viewer in his ability to interpret everything.

Her love of nature and wildlife was overwhelmed during her time in Namibia, where she worked at a lodge, and shaped in her the desire to protect it.

She then traveled the world as a flight attendant for several years, getting to know many interesting people and places. Travel and foreign cultures have always been her greatest inspiration alongside nature, and art has always accompanied her and strengthened her urge to capture what she has seen and experienced in pictures.

Contemporary sculptor Sabrina Ferwagner, who is a member of GEDOK and wieArt, uses her chainsaw to bring works of art to life that are not only made of wood, but also capture the soul of the material. The natural properties of wood merge with her vision and lend her sculptures authenticity and a tangible connection to the earth. In addition to wood, she also works with stone, clay, cast bronze and iron, demonstrating the versatility of her oeuvre.

At the center of her art is the human being – in all its facets and levels. Sabrina Ferwagner explores anatomy, psychology, the unconscious, social dynamics and the developmental processes that shape us as individuals.

Her works tell of the entanglements and twists and turns of life through to moments of self-development. She is currently focusing in particular on the question of how we can overcome key issues such as fear, anger and resentment. What frees us from these states? How can inner deformations be overcome, even transcended, in order to find an authentic self – all the way to complete acceptance and surrender to life.

Her sculptures move between figuration and abstraction, between clear design and intuitive expression. Curved female bodies emerge as warm, organic figures full of life and personality, while her more abstract, archaic-looking works touch on the fundamental questions of human existence. Sabrina Ferwagner creates art that is touching, thought-provoking and makes the essence of life tangible in its form.

Stefanie Raus is a self-taught contemporary artist from Achern, at the foot of the Black Forest. Art and creativity are an essential part of her identity.

She worked in the banking industry for many years, where she always felt very comfortable. At some point in her life, however, she wants to live her true passion again.

As she did not want to rely solely on her self-taught skills, she attended courses with the Offenburg artist Inge Panter, who laid the foundations for her own style later on.

Stefanie is fascinated by landscapes, which usually inspire her to create her own abstractions.

For her, art and painting are about being alive. They help her to recognize herself and to grow.

Stop, pause, take your time, understand, touch, let your mind wander, be with yourself. Without a cell phone, free yourself from overstimulation and the pace. Enjoy and relax. This is exactly what Poersch hopes for when the viewer encounters his works.

His portraits are created using a dot technique reminiscent of pop art and at the same time reminiscent of pointillism. An image is created from a multitude of small dots, which allows the viewer to see a clearly recognizable face from a distance, while the structure of the individual dots becomes clearer on closer inspection.

This technique emphasizes the pixelation and fragmentary nature of modern digital imagery and brings the theme of the decay of information to the fore. The result is a tension between detail and abstraction, which is created in particular by the complexity of the surface and the different materials.

Poersch studied art/art therapy in Bochum in 1999 and painting at the University of Dortmund in 2002. He later became a master student and friend of Prof. Wilfrid Polke, brother of Sigmar Polke, Düsseldorf.

She sees some things differently and Utaellamarie Peter expresses this in her large-format, colorful pictures characterized by strong motifs. The imagination bubbles over, an imagination that is shaped by the confrontation and positioning with and in a world flooded with texts and images.

A multitude of themes occupy this late-career, but all the more passionate painter. And so a wealth of ideas characterizes her work, which often revolves around the existence of the ‘crown of creation’ and its consequences. She likes to show the surprising, strange and surreal in her figurative works, sometimes with more humor, sometimes less.

And humor is an important element in her work because, as the artist says, “Without humor, everything is nothing!”

Valentina Andrees grew up in the Ukraine. Today she lives and works in Hamburg and Sicily.

She discovered a new world of colors and shapes early on, which enabled her to express emotions on canvas. She mainly composes portraits of women and animals – with expressive intensity and technical clarity. The visualized composition of light and color lends the portraits a dramatic flair.

Her works inspire the viewer not only with expressive intensity and technical clarity, but also with a great deal of emotion. The protagonists of the works captivate their viewers above all with their expressive eyes. She is a member of the society of animal artists, has received several awards and presents her works worldwide.

Viktoria Ilzhöfer (born Viktoria Mihajlovna Kashtsialian) was born in Belarus in 1979. After attending school, she decided to study art at the Minsk State Art Academy from 1995 to 1999. She then studied social psychology at the Belarusian State University from 2001 to 2006. She has lived in the Stuttgart area since 2006. She joined the Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall in 2024.

The philosophy of her art is deeply rooted in the representation of feelings. Her works reflect her innermost emotions and experiences, which she expresses in a subtle and impressive way. Values like an inner compass guide her artistic journey. Her art explores the deep facets of human existence, enriched by her experiences in art, psychology and wisdom. Her resume documents an inspiring journey through various dimensions of creativity and human life.

Viktoria Ilzhöfer has mastered the oil-on-canvas technique in various styles and invites us to view the diversity of art through her eyes. Her works are enhanced by the skillful application of palette knife technique and are given a unique three-dimensional texture and a touch of luxury using gold and silver leaf metals.

These artistic methods allow her to go beyond conventional boundaries and create artworks with rich colors, textures and symbolic meaning.