Artist
Britta Lumer
Artist
Part of events on ArtRabbit in: Berlin
Over the past decades, Britta Lumer has developed a consistent body of work, most of which takes place on paper and yet cannot easily be understood as a drawing. For nothing concrete is grasped, or captured and preserved in artistic representation. Instead, her works on paper - not infrequently monumental views of bodies, portraits, architecture, and cityscapes - which play into the figurative, seem to drive their subjects to the edge of dissolution, of liquification. This intentional leap into the imprecise is matched by her use of artistic tools. For her large-format ink drawings, she has constructed a fully movable worktable in order to be able to direct the flowing ink in all directions. For years she has been working on innovative techniques in order to be able to fathom a coherent balance between the plannable and the accidental. Thus, in her paintings nothing appears in its fixed place, everything in contour could also move in different directions. Doubles, linear shifts, accumulations of pigment, gradients of light-dark contrasts reveal a degree of contingency that makes, what is depicted, strange to us and yet lends itself to contemplative observation. Instead of delivering ready-made projections, Lumer works out projection surfaces to whose vagueness and delicacy we as viewers can never relate as if what is to be seen could be interpreted as a formulation of something already known. Text: Daniel Marzona
Exhibitions and Events
2025