FREEFALL

Painting the Body in Times of Cultural Crisis

Himmelssturz · Oil on canvas · 300 × 200 cm · 2026

What remains of the human body when the structures
that give meaning to the world begin to collapse?

FREEFALL is an ongoing artistic research that investigates the human body as the place where cultural, historical and existential transformations become visible.

Rather than illustrating philosophical ideas, the project approaches painting as a form of inquiry. Each work emerges through a dialogue between painting, drawing, reading and writing, where the image is not the conclusion of a thought but the place where thought takes form.

The paintings presented here do not represent a finished series.
They mark the current stage of a long-term investigation into how painting can make visible what escapes language: the fragility of meaning, the collapse of symbolic structures, and the changing condition of the body.

Identity no longer holds a stable form

Absurde Identität · Oil on canvas · 250 × 200 cm · 2026

Architecture survives longer than belief.

Der vernichtende Engel · Oil on canvas · 250 × 200 cm · 2026

Every collapse produces another form.

Zwischen den Ordnungen · Oil on canvas · 150 × 150 cm · 2026

Painting as Inquiry

FREEFALL is not conceived as a sequence of paintings, but as an evolving process of artistic research.

Process

Painting is not only the result of the research.
It is the place where the research becomes visible.

How Painting Thinks Diagram showing the relationship between research, writing, drawing, painting, repainting, essay and artist's book. HOW PAINTING THINKS Every painting carries a question as far as it can. Its limit becomes the beginning of the next work. RESEARCH RESEARCH QUESTION WRITING DRAWINGS PAINTING REPAINTING ESSAY ARTIST'S BOOK NEW RESEARCH QUESTION