einfach nur ein Stück Holz

Serie 2023

Holz/Rinde

auf Passepartoutkarton

20x20cm

Alongside painting, I continuously engage with objects and installations that explore our relationship to nature and the ways in which we perceive it.

At first glance, painting and object-based work may appear to follow different paths. Yet both are rooted in the same fundamental interest: the attempt to encounter things in their own right. In my oil paintings, colour is not simply a means of representation. It is given the space to exist as itself—to unfold its own presence, materiality, and visual intensity.

My objects arise from a similar approach. They begin with found fragments of bark and wood, gathered from roadsides, forest paths, and places where they have been left behind unnoticed. Detached from their original surroundings and placed within a new context, these humble materials invite a different kind of attention.

I do not alter or reshape them. Their forms, textures, fractures, and traces of weathering are not imperfections to be corrected but expressions of a history already inscribed within the material. What interests me is not transformation, but recognition: the possibility of seeing what is already there.

In this sense, the works reflect on the aesthetics of the overlooked. They ask how value is assigned, how beauty is perceived, and why certain things remain invisible to us despite being present all along. The fragments of wood possess a quiet autonomy. They do not require embellishment or intervention. Their beauty resides in their very existence.

Einfach nur ein Stück Holz… is an ongoing series composed of collected fragments of bark-covered wood, each mounted, untouched and unchanged, on an individual mat board.

Every fragment bears the marks of time. Growth, injury, decay, and resilience are recorded in its surface. Like a repository of memory, the material carries traces of events that can no longer be fully reconstructed. The wood becomes both object and witness—an archive of natural processes, but also a reflection on time, transience, and the stories embedded within the world around us.