Not to depict what is perceived, but to create her own pictorial world based on what is perceived.

Berit Opelt's aim is to integrate familiar objects into the creative process, subordinate them to the painterly and thus make them the basis of the latter, as it were. 

Bimorphic structures are used, alienated and reinterpreted as new carriers of symbols. This results in complex, profound works that provide the viewer with ever new insights.

 

The shortest of all lyrical forms, three groups of words, seventeen syllables - the Japanese haiku.

Perseverance, discipline, adherence to rules, clarity - nevertheless a special and comprehensive form of existential experience. Anni Rieck's current wire-and-paper objects deal with these aspects both formally and thematically. Reduced, quiet, mostly monochrome works reflect this seemingly superficial contradiction.

With this pictorial translation, she invites viewers to discover their own poetry, new contexts and experiences.