Elke Hellas Markopoulos | Rittersporn und Struktur | 2018

Five female artists devote their attention to the plant world in all its filigree details:

Hermine Overbeck-Rohte created watercolor drawings in the 1930s to illustrate a plant classification guide of the Central German Uplands. The purpose of this commissioned work made it necessary that the otherwise freelance artist had to work strictly per botanical guidelines.

The Swiss painter Katrin Ullmann approaches the plant world from a solely artistic angle and yet with almost scientific precision. With a fine brush, she records delicate plant studies as watercolor or oil paintings.

The photographer and musician Angelica Jerzewski uses the digital camera to take close-ups of plants in the backlight, thus opening a door to an often unnoticed microcosm of nature.

Elke Hellas Markopoulos combines the camera with the microscope to create aesthetic structures that would otherwise remain hidden from the human eye. Even dried flowers, seeds, and leaves flow as material into her work.