Works

Trees and Stones is an ongoing series of works that portrays fictional trees and stones.The black-and-white postcards used as source material emphasise form and shadow play. Their nostalgic charge reminds us not only that these postcards are hardly available anymore, but also that they depict a bygone era.

Paysages composant le Jura (Landscapes making up the Jura), 2024 Collage of black and white postcards, 62 cm x 77 cm Nobody knows the exact location of the painting ‘Paysage du Jura’ by the famous painter Gustave Courbet, who was born in Ornans in 1819. The painting was bequeathed to the Republic and Canton of Jura […]

We juxtapose our personal impression of landscapes that we saw on our  train, bus or ferry trips during our two month stay in northern Germany with paintings of landscapes by other artists. By cutting out and using fragments of images from art postcards of their works, not only time and places but also ways of […]

The series Die Blumen der Maler (The Flowers of the Painters) is inspired by Odilon Redon’s flower arrangements and consists of five collages in different formats.The source material for them are art postcards of works by a wide variety of painters. The individual parts of these images were put together to form new kinds of bouquets. The arrangements […]

The three works Ein Modell für eine Höhle, Ein Modell für einen Flussabschnitt, Ein Modell für einen Felsbrocken (A model for a cave, A model for a river section, A model for a boulder) are each based on a sculpture, which is turned into a picture carrier by means of the pasting-over process. By using […]

This series is about the idea of mountain scapes. On numerous hiking tours we collected impressions. Back in the studio we transformed those inner images into collages made of old black and white postcards or painted representations by other artists throughout centuries. 2018, collages from art postcards / black and white picture postcards, 70 x […]

The Zimmerpflanzen (Indoor Plants) consist of image details of forests and plants taken from thematic reports in daily newspapers. Both through their material – paper – and their artificial reconfiguration, these works are characterised by a critical irony towards current ecological problems. Excerpt from the visitor guide, Musée jurassien des Arts, Moutier, Cantonal Art Exhibition […]

For the construction of these virtual buildings we used depictions of architecture from various source material for purposes other than intended. On closer look the combination of these fragments often collides with our sense of space. 2016, collages from art postcards and print-outs, 50 x 70 cm and 70 x 100 cm

The view penetrates the impenetrable density of forests. The eye explores innumerable shades of green, discovers unknown places and meets the unexpected: plants by Henri Rousseau, a rowing man, people sitting in a café, commuters on a train, huge leaves from botanical gardens, long sewer pipes, partial views of French châteaus, a window from a ruin […]

‹Art Lovers› This series of three is the result of an artistic research into the way men and women are depicted throughout recent art history. More often than not women are shown as naked models, whereas men are mostly dressed. Women are being looked at whereas men are looking. In our works however, the viewer becomes […]