Viktoria Diehn | Wolkenhelle ewig wandernd über dem Land | 2010 | Mischtechnik auf Nessel

The painter Viktoria Diehn and the sculptor Christoph Fischer have been living and working in Worpswede for many years. Their works represent a certain Worpswede art that has arrived in the present and yet does not deny the roots of the artists’ colony. The landscape and the relationship between man and nature remain the big topic. The view on the subject, however, has changed. New forms of expression give utterance to the brokenness of man and nature in our time.

The works of the two artists are juxtaposed with great tension: large-format canvas paintings are juxtaposed with small sculptures, and abstraction in painting meets figurativeness in plastic art. The horse joins the landscape as a distinct pole of tension and represents the invasion of the very Other into Nature. Mediating and yet separating, belonging to both, and precisely thereby clarifying the distance between the two, it stands between man and landscape. In this way, the viewer is also asked to take a look at his place in the world, his relationship to nature, and his creatureliness, that is, his finiteness. The images and sculptures challenge the observer, confronting him with a feeling of otherness, but also of familiarity, so that he has to involuntarily relate himself to art as well as to nature.