My works are about a critical examination of the perception and feeling of spatiality and the associated construction of inner and outer imaginary worlds. The frame element, which formally determines the pictorial space, marks its boundaries and thus manifests it as a whole entity, functions as an essential starting point. Gaston Bachelard writes in his "Poetics of Space" that space concentrates and protects being within its boundaries. How, then, can we respond to this relationship between space and the individual, which nevertheless always seems to constitute itself anew?

My intention is to break through the pictorial space, to expand it and to reveal it. The pictorial and actually physical effect of forces should not only be limited by the composition within the pictorial space through the frame, but in connection with it as an extension beyond the edge of the picture, it should be experienced and perceived. We are not in a static space, but in a constant change and transition of spaces of experience, experience and action, which are characterized by transformation.

The atmosphere of these spaces, shells and layers is revealed in my work. Inner as well as outer images are revealed, whose dimensions overlap in a sensually perceptible way, thereby tracing experiencing, remembering, dreaming and imagining as a construct of one's own thoughts.

Jessica Grundler (* in Augsburg) lives and works in Vienna and Germany

2014-2018 Studies Painting and Cult Spaces at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Prof. Karin Kneffel
2018 - 2023 Studies Extended Painting Space at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Prof. Daniel Richter, Diploma 02_2023

upcoming and current exhibitions:

Vienna Neue Kühlschrank Show
curated by Daniel Richter
running until August 30, 2023
Krinzinger Schottenfeld
1070 Vienna, Schottenfeldgasse 45
Galerie Krinzinger

Guest in the castle
Group exhibition Galerie Rudolf Leeb at Schloss Wiespach, Hallein, August 5 - 19, 2023

Portrait photo: (c) eSeL.at - Lorenz Seidler