HIMMEL NASS
A few months ago, on a Monday or Tuesday, I was at the university and had a short break. I went to my office and called my best friend Bea. She told me that it was raining in Leipzig, and that her middle daughter Ella had commented on the weather with the words: “Himmel, nass!”
In the following days and weeks, the expression “Himmel nass” often accompanied my thoughts, and I felt it would be a beautiful title for an exhibition. The images in this booklet were created for the exhibition of the same name at Galerie b2_ in September 2025. I have translated some of the paintings from Tamtam andGran Palazzo into linocuts using different methods, and from these once again created larger black-and-white paintings. The process of painting after linocuts that originated from images of the imagination has occupied me since my exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. It is a way of making, out of the originally small, colorful paintings, larger, more abstract, darker and sharper works. In some of the motifs I see forms, chaos, and an energy that I perhaps know from childhood: bright colors, rooms where things lie scattered on the floor, mixed with dreams of animals and of a beautiful landscape. A jumble. The sky is a vast, wide surface, far away. It surrounds the whole world.
The idea that this all-encompassing surface is wet has something painterly about it, something coated. Like a freshly painted surface. And the idea that the entire sky is wet also carries something melancholic. And at the same time, something calming.
For a long time, rain was my favorite weather.
