Mobile Mutation Map

Series 2007, water colour & acrylic on map, 31 x 83

Mobile Mutation Maps

Series 2007, water colour & acrylic on map, 45 x 46

Migration Series/Survive

2008, water colour, 64 x 50

Migration Series/Survive!

2007/2008, graphite and varnish drawings, 30 x 30

Walker

2007, water colour and charcoal, 90 x 150

Migration Series / Walking

2007/2008, brush and ink drawings, 30 x 21

Migration Series / Here I stand!

2008, water colours, 60 x 30

The theme of migration has been with me for a long time:

For example: The series “Here I Stand!” at Villa Oppenheim, the postcards and story telling installation and performance for the House of World Cultures exhibition “Heimat” and “Eagles don't carry passports” for the Galerie Alte Schule. In 2007 and 2008 I have made a number of different series of drawings of people walking, running moving, swimming even crawling. The basis of life. Not only people, animals and birds, but plants too move to the places which help them survive better.

My oldest theme, survival! Trying to prevent life from moving, is to be for death!

We are all migrants or the children of migrants!

Read the texts "My most basic theme" (artist statement in English), "When art breaks out of its elite white ghetto..." (Dr. Belows essay on a projection of mine, original German version here) and "Trenches in a childhood land" (English newspaper article on my work, original German version here).