“Communicare”
Transitions
The opening will take place on Sunday, June 14, 2026, at 3 pm.
Maria vom Weinberg Church, Warburg
In this body of work, Transitions, created for the monastery church in Warburg, I work with the form of the circle, which holds a multilayered significance in Christian iconography. I engage with the circle as a symbol of the divine and the infinite, of recurrence and perfection, but also of protection and inward contemplation. At the same time, it alludes to the halo as a sign of transcendent presence. I draw on this symbolic tradition while deliberately opening it up to further associations.
The objects, suspended freely in space, can be read as shields, dreamcatchers, gates, or passages into pictorial spaces. They also evoke references to circular church windows or to the motif of the wheel of eternal recurrence. Likewise, the idea of the nine spheres of Paradise from Dante’s Divine Comedy may resonate as a conceptual echo.
At the same time, the materiality of the objects—paper, cardboard, wood, and in part bamboo—recalls constructions from kite-making. Yet these objects cannot fly. They hang on strings in space and appear like overloaded flight models. This creates, for me, a field of tension between ascent and attachment, between the longing for the heavens and the reality of earthly grounding.
The installation consciously enters into dialogue with the church’s Baroque high altar, whose large-format painting depicts the Assumption of Mary. My works are not intended as illustration, but rather as a contemporary reflection on transcendence, transformation (= transitions), and spiritual movement.
In this exhibition, I combine my abstract, process-oriented painting with sculptural and installation elements. The nine paintings, executed in acrylic and chalk on circular pictorial objects, will be presented primarily in the chancel of the church. There, an interplay of color, form, space, and movement emerges, incorporating the architectural and spiritual context of the church into the work. (March 10, 2026)