i:am Gwen

Paintings

Acrylic Paintings, Guache, Oil, Aquarelle, Oil Markers, Acrylic Markers, Spray Paint, Oil Pastells, Eddings, Pens, Pencils, Nails, Cratch and Tears - and everything you can paint with.

On Paper, Cardboard, Canvas and all kinds of Mixes and other Materials

Series: Be-Longing

Exploring human connection, intimacy and distance through fragmented emotional perception.

We don't speak the same language - do we?

Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Munich, January 2024

Somehow, we are all Naked

Acrylic Painting on Paper
Munich 2023

Shout until our Bones break

Markers and Acrylic Paint on Cardboard
Munich 2022

Bro

Acrylic Painting on Paper
Munich 2022

The other side

Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Munich 2023/12

Blue Confusion

Acrylic paint on Canvas.

Munich 2021 (medium)

Lucky

Acrylic Paint on Cardboard
Munich 2021

Be-Longing explores emotional proximity and distance within fragmented experiences of belonging, intimacy, and self-perception.

My work looks at how people connect and disconnect: through bodies, distance, touch, withdrawal, desire, and loneliness. It captures moments where relationships become visible — fragile, unstable, and often unresolved.
With a background in twenty years of research in sociology, psychology, philosophy, and education, I approach this field not with clarity, but with contradiction. The more I studied human connection, the less fixed it became.
I work from fragments: a glance, a silence, something almost said. From everyday encounters and my own inner world.
Each work tries to hold what disappears while it happens — the need to be seen, and the impossibility of fully being seen.

Series: Environmental Crush'down

Examining the tension between human desire, consumption, and the emotional collapse of environmental systems.

Outlook

Acrylic Painting on Paper
Munich 2022

Future Angst is nothing new, don't you remember the 80s?

Acrylic Painting on Paper
Munich 2023

Through Rain and Sunshine

Acrylic Painting on Paper
Munich 2023

Overgrowing the City

Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Munich 2023

This series reflects on the tension between human behavior, consumption, and ecological fragility.

I imagine environments where human and non-human life can exist without extraction or control. This work reflects a discomfort with how nature is reduced to resource and material. Even today, we still approach the world as something to manage and shape.

But nature resists this logic. It floods, grows, erodes, and transforms what we build.

These works sit in that tension between human ambition and forces that cannot be controlled.

Series: Internal Setup

Investigating inner structures of identity, emotional organization, and psychological fragmentation.

Muddy Waters

Good Enough

Internal Setup investigates inner structures of identity, emotional organization, and psychological fragmentation.
We are constantly asked to improve ourselves — to become more coherent, more efficient, more complete. This series moves in the opposite direction. It looks at what remains when that pressure loosens: unstable, emotional, unfinished states of being. Not as resolution, but as presence.

Series: The Artist's Self

Questioning authorship, identity, and self-representation through staged and reflective visual constructions.

There is a larger Painter inside

Acrylic paint on canvas

50x70cm
Munich, 2022
(A detail from the painting)

10 pm, when time breaks

Acrylic paint and dishtowel on canvas
50x70cm
Munich 2022
(A detail from the painting)

The One

Acrylic paint on canvas

Munich, 2022.
(A detail from the painting)

This series examines authorship, identity, and self-representation within artistic and social contexts.

What does it mean to be an artist — not as identity, but as ongoing condition?

This series stays in that uncertainty: between making and doubt, visibility and withdrawal, definition and refusal

Series: My Beast

Exploring instinct, alter ego, and the tension between human control and inner animality.

My Beast explores instinct, alter ego, and the tension between control and inner animality.
My beast is always here. Some days it is gentle, other days heavy and difficult to carry.

It changes form — dog, shadow, impulse, weight — but it never leaves.