About:
Paula Wellmann was born in 1986 and lives and works in Berlin. As an interdisciplinary artist, she works in the fields of painting, stage and costume design and scenography. Her work is concerned with the exaggerated representation of our present. She creates scenes and figures that are overblown and sometimes grotesque. She creates worlds and distorted atmospheres.
Artist Statement:
My paintings (large format, mostly in oil and airbrush) are eruptions of my subconscious. Wild, fantastic, essential and yet familiar scenes. There is often a sexual tension in the air. The arrangements have something childlike about them, like a fantasy story and yet something darkly real. I try to approach the issues of our generation in a playful and humorous way. In the paintings, everyday observations merge with quotes from mythology, art history and pop culture.
The raw and wild strokes show - far from any theory - a world in a process of dissolution. Values disintegrate, desire remains.
My sources of inspiration are encounters in the subway, my own biography, everyday and global events. Moments open my associative space.
Doors to analogies are pushed open.
Compositions of pictorial worlds emerge in my mind. The process of painting is then liberating, naive, fast, unloading, relieving.