Jana Lottenburger

She was born in 1975, in the former GDR, in the Berlin suburbs. With her parents, she migrated to West Berlin in early 1983, almost seven years before the fall of the wall. This first great movement between two totally different realities still pushes her today to take an interest in the multiple facets inherent in everything, and in parallel contexts.

His research feeds particularly on the observation of nature and the questioning of identity. The human being, his environment, the conception of landmarks and relationships, forgetting and memory, are for her a vast field of exploration.

On the gurative and narrative level, she uses a vocabulary of archetypes, notably from the domain of nature. It establishes inventories, botanical charts, bestiaries and records of all kinds in order to classify and structure the elements constituting a territory. From this material, she recomposes and creates visions of landscapes, plants, undergrowth, trees or animals. She offers often dreamlike universes, the reading of which suggests the meaning hidden between the lines and behind the obviousness of the images.

She topography the notions of uprooting, anchoring, time, and fragile balances, to explore the complex conditions of being in motion, to determine the essence of a contemporary identity and its metamorphoses.