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... 33.Anne Wölk “Milky Way (only stars overhear us)” (2018)

“Scope and Vision” (2019) Anne Wölk is a painter best known for light-flooded romantic starscapes accompanied by birch trees. Her fantastic multilayered narrations are like cinematic sceneries and refer to Science Fiction movies and novels. Wölk ́s subject matters peaks of the imagery of futuristic science and technology, which we have only become familiar with from the advances of satellites, cameras, and moreover in cinematography and computer-generated-images. The artist paints afantastical interpretation of nature, in which the simultaneity of Romanticism and Utopia become perceptible. Nightscapes captured with magical lightshines on the horizon appearassee mingly deserted nature, but colorful LED tubes, with bizarre rainbow visual effects, area hint of human presence. The LED tubes were placed by hotels in the nocturnal landscape, to impress tourists in the skiresort of mountains. Anne Wölk redefines the genre of landscape painting by addressing the subject matter of light pollution and show us an uneasy conflict between artificial and natural light. A situation where one light shines over the other makes us feel uncomfortable. Wölk ́s paintings make us aware of how sensitive we are to light and how light can change our body and brain in unexpected ways.

Anne Wölk is avisual artist based in Berlin. Wölk received an MFA from The School of Art and Design Berlin and was a BFA student at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. She was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and won a category award of ‚Art takes Paris‘ judged by Metropolitan & Andy Warhol Museum. She has exhibited at international institutions, e.g., the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey; the CICA Art Museum South Korea; the Accra Goethe-Institut Ghana and the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republik.

artists: Thomas Bils, Ksenia Burnasheva, Khalil Charif, Geoff Delanoy, Jake Dockins, Aleksander Drakulic, Kara Dunne, Robert Farber, Lily Fei, Hannah Fulton, Sid and Geri, Billi London-Gray, Rhea In 인은주, Ricardo Jordán, Doyoon Kim 김도윤, Soojin Kim 김수진, Takleong Kou, Constanze Kratzsch, Sarah Lasley, Debbie YJ Lin, Marcel van der Linden, Ryoko Minamitani, Andrew O’Brien, Alexandra Opie, Sangdae Lee 이상대, Lynn Park, Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius, Pulled Resources, Rossana Schiavo, Cristal Tadeo, Ubac 우박, Alexandra Wiesenfeld, Anne Wölk