The central theme in my work is the familiar. The works give insights into scenes of private, everyday life – walks, living rooms, the bathroom, the view from the window. Images are permeated by elements that disrupt the homely composition – bright spotlights in the darkness, shadows and sharp edges that cut out elements, or the reflection of a figure‘s gaze in a window. My artistic practice consists primarily of watercolor and oil painting. I refer to photographs that I take in my private environment and therefore use as a reference for painting. As a starting point, I examine the reference photography intently and then paint my observations in many overlapping, translucent layers of color. Working focused and slowly painting in layers is particularly important for me, as I can immerse myself in the mood captured in the photographic snapshot during the ongoing painting process. At the same time, I look at the details and structures of the various elements and figures in the picture analytically, where I distance myself emotionally from my surroundings. The resulting painting is a reconstruction of a moment that is photographic in appearance, but which also seems slightly distorted and alien. SOLO EXHIBITIONS • Midnight Snack — Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg, 2023 • Somnium — KHG Linz, Linz, 2022 SELECTED GROUP / INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS • There Is a Then and You Will Receive It — Open Studio Presentation, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, 2025 • SIGNALE — Maerz Galerie, Linz, 2024 • ZUR SACHE! — Galerie am Bodenseekreis, Meersburg, 2024 • MORE THAN ONE — Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt, 2024 • Realistinnen — PARALLEL VIENNA, Vienna, 2022 • ODOR — Hauptplatz 6, Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, 2022 • Nothing Exists This Is Not RAEL — Werkstatthaus, Stuttgart, 2022 • BestOff 2021 — splace am Hauptplatz, Linz, 2021 • SCREAM-SING-FALL SILENT — PARALLEL Vienna, Vienna, 2020 AWARDS / RECOGNITION • START Scholarship for Visual Arts — Austrian Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMWKMS), 2025 • Scholarship for Residency at Cité internationale des arts, awarded by the State Government of Salzburg, 2024 • Scholarship, Summer Academy Salzburg — “Painting Pictures” with Francis Ruyter, awarded by the State Government of Salzburg, 2022 • Merit Scholarship — Kunstuniversität Linz, 2021