Franziska Dörfel
My name is Franziska Dörfel and I was born in Rostock in East Germany in 1982.
After graduating from high school and my training in wood carving in Thuringia, I began my teacher training course for art & philosophy at the University of Greifswald. Since then I have been working intensively and continuously with painting.
During my studies of painting with Prof. Pleuger at the university of art Burg Giebichenstein in Halle/Saale awakened my approach to the art of the old masters and the simultaneous interest in abstract and contemporary art. The fascination of exploring and overcoming the boundaries between abstraction and figurative painting has since been unbroken. On my numerous journeys I have been able to develop myself personally. In my studio I have been working intensively on the development of my artistic expression since 2018. Have been a member of the artists‘ group „Rosa Garage“ since 2019. I have participated in regional exhibitions in Lower Saxony. My works can be found in private collections within Germany. In 2024 I decided to participate in international tenders to make my artistic path more visible.
Statement:
The starting point of my work is the informal painting in oil on canvas.
In the gesture application of colour on the canvas I create a stage for my themes.
In its creation, the canvas is an open space that develops and changes through the process of feeling the existing abstract colour spaces. My artistic research is on the superposition, densification and transparency of colour. Sometimes pastos or glazed she strengthens my picture themes, which I work out layer by layer.
My works deal with the duality of human being and with the deeper, often contradictory complexity of our existence. My painting is the visualisation of inner worlds. My paintings show different levels of inner spaces that move between consciousness and subconscious, trying to understand man with his emotions and entanglements, the core of his actions. I realise again and again that the relationship with ourselves and our environment is more intense than we think.
Picturesquely I refer to an old master approach. But deliberately break through it with contemporary elements and disturbing factors and thereby create tension. This tension is the focus of my work.
I understand the high degree of encryption in my work as a way to put viewing habits to the test and to encourage thinking beyond that.
