Philippa Brück

Philippa Brück (*1993) lives and works in Leipzig. From 2013 to 2017 she studied theater painting at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden. After graduating, she traveled to Hamburg, where she will study until 2023 at the University of Applied Sciences in the department of illustration, with a focus on painting, under the supervision of Professor Christian Hahn. Philippa Brück began her training as a painter in the theater. The impressions and experiences she acquired there continue to shape her visual universe today. Thus, the plays on the deliberately staged character of its motifs as well as the theatrical formal language of the form play an important role. His works oscillate between figuration and abstraction, while thematizing certain aspects of classic still life painting. The central motif of Philippa Brück's works is nature. By confronting beauty and the ephemeral in vast representations, she takes up the idea of ​​vanity. Fragments of plants and flowers combine to form sensual symbioses and open up a wide range of associations. The narration is absent, just like the human being. However, we can recognize in the abstract figures and bodies depicted an undulating agitation of organic forms. Everything is in motion, blossoming, decomposing and deforming. The dynamic is always underlined by the artist's opaque and obstinate colorful universe. Nature is revealed in the paintings as a force in constant transformation. transformation. Naturalism is relegated to the background here in favor of surrealism. Philippa Brück shows us inner worlds, detached from natural laws. Colors and shapes enter into exciting relationships with each other, suggesting to us sometimes psychedelia, sometimes soft baroque, and sometimes also the subtle threat lurking in the ravishing landscapes.