Stilles Wuchern, 2025

Mixed media on fabric 55 cm x 160 cm

In my showcase window installation, I explore the relationship between city and nature. The project is based on painted fabrics cut into geometric shapes. They are reminiscent of the clear contours of building facades. These architectural silhouettes form the backdrop for another, silent presence: nature. Within the building shapes, picturesque worlds full of colour and movement unfold. They show a nature that grows wild, lively and undeterred. A contrast to the static, often grey city. While the urban environment is loud, orderly and designed by humans, nature remains quiet, unobtrusive, but unstoppable. It grows through cracks, occupies empty spaces, finds its way through the rigid grid of architecture.

The work can be understood as a kind of painterly scenography in which the city is recreated and simultaneously broken through. The result is an image of the coexistence of control and freedom, structure and growth. The showcase window itself becomes an interspace. A place where the seemingly repressed becomes visible again and again.