Mirco Götz: Auf dem Eis, 2015, Acryl auf Leinwand

A high degree of abstraction is immanent in Nature – the all-encompassing line of the horizon, the richness of floral and geological forms, enigmatic traces of animals that we seek to read. Vera Schöttler and Mirco Götz create their works in this borderland between nature and abstraction.

The delicate songbirds by Mirco Götz appear lifelike and yet exist in an abstract space of dominant surfaces. Nature as a habitat remains invisible. Through the confrontation of representational and non-representational painting, Mirco Götz creates a threshold situation that brings up important questions about our relationship with nature today.

Vera Schöttler is inspired by nature to create colorful paintings that do not draw a likeness of nature but make it associatively accessible. Flowers or flotsam are the starting point for several work stages, which are characterized by an increasing degree of abstraction through which the valid picture eventually emerges. But even at a point in her work when no actual object is recognizable anymore, when the effect and intensity of color are explored on a large scale, associations of landscape ensue.