Series Stille

2025

The ten works in the Stille series explore silence as a tense state between presence and disappearance. What appears calm at first reveals subtle instability; silence shifts between stillness and latent threat. The works are based on real encounters in nature, often photographed at night or at twilight, and later digitally assembled and reworked. The resulting images occupy a space between documentation and construction. Animals and landscapes appear familiar yet displaced, like fragments of memory that resist clear interpretation.

A unicorn lying in a wide field with mist-covered trees in the background at sunset.

Look What I Found In My Magic Garden

Photocollage · 08/2023 · 32×23 cm, Print on Paper · 500 €

A unicorn lies in a wide field, with mist-covered trees in the background. The scene appears distant and dreamlike, the light soft and diffuse. The unicorn, a symbol of purity and fantasy, rests calmly at the center, detached from the viewer. It suggests a form of happiness that cannot be pursued, but appears unexpectedly — only to remain out of reach. In its stillness, the image evokes a quiet longing: that the impossible might briefly become real, before it fades again.

A group of swans stands still on a frosty meadow beneath a vast, leafless willow tree under a full moon.

@MyPlace

Photocollage · 02/2024 · 32×23 cm, Print on Paper · 500 €

A group of swans stands still on a frosty meadow beneath a vast, leafless willow. The scene feels quiet and harmonious, yet something is off: their unusual gathering on dry land becomes a subtle sign of ecological drift. The swans were photographed on an open field in the Lausitz. The willow, photographed near my home under a full moon, adds another layer of quiet displacement. The collage brings these elements together into a landscape that never existed — and yet could.

A fox stands alone in a field under the glow of a full moon.

Silent Night

Photocollage · 08/2023 · 32×23 cm, Print on Paper · 500 €

A fox stands alone in a field under the glow of a full moon. The image was assembled from photographs at the border of a wide nature reserve and altered through painterly interventions and filters. The alienation creates an artificial space that is cozy, dreamlike, and at the same time strange — a metaphor for our disturbed relationship with nature.

A red bird perched on a branch in a dark forest with a bright, golden light shining through the trees.

Paradise Ahead

Photocollage · 05/2024 · 32×23 cm, Print on Paper · 500 €

A red bird rests on a branch, framed by dark undergrowth. Behind it, the forest opens into a corridor of light. Once a lifeless wryneck, the bird has been digitally transformed — enlarged, recolored, and reimagined. It appears suspended between realities, neither fully natural nor purely symbolic. Paradise Ahead reflects on the boundary between presence and disappearance. The image suggests a moment of transition — toward light, toward the unknown. Rather than depicting nature, it presents a constructed vision: a quiet image of passage, where what is seen may already be fading or only briefly returning.

A cluster of poppies in a moonlit field.

Wandering

Photocollage · 08/2024 · 32×23 cm, Print on Paper · 500 €

In a vast, moonlit plain, a cluster of tall poppies rises from the darkness. Resembling Papaver somniferum, their presence feels both nostalgic and forbidden. The field, rendered in saturated, unreal colors, appears dreamlike and slightly dissonant. Forms blur, suggesting a space between memory and hallucination. Part of the Stille series, Wandering explores stillness, estrangement, and perception at the edge of visibility. The flowers appear as a fragile trace — out of place, yet insistent.

A young deer stands in a meadow at sunset, with a dark forest in the background.

Watch Out

Photocollage · 07/2024 · 32×23 cm, Print on Paper · 500 €

A young deer stands still in a meadow, its head slightly raised as if sensing something. The scene appears calm at first, yet subtle disturbances emerge: glowing eyes in the underbrush, a faint human-like figure among the trees. An ambiguous light casts the landscape into an uncanny stillness, as if filtered through a dream. Part of the Stille series, Watch Out explores thresholds between safety and threat, visibility and disappearance — moments in which calm shifts into unease.

A lone dog crosses a pale, wintry field under a cloud-swept sky.

This Is Stirling

Photocollage · 03/2023 · 32×23 cm, Print on Paper · 500 €

A lone dog crosses a pale, wintry field under a cloud-swept sky. The forest stands dense and motionless to the right, while broken sunlight pushes through the clouds in a fine, almost sacred ray. The landscape appears both ordinary and altered — real, but quietly unmoored. As with other works in the Stille series, this image combines photographs with painterly interventions. The textures are softened, the surface disrupted, turning the scene into a dreamlike projection. The animal is neither moving nor resting — simply present, quiet, as if humbled by the quiet majesty of the trees.

A lone sheep stands in a moonlit field at the edge of a dark forest, a full moon hanging in the night sky.

Wolfgang

Photocollage · 10/2025 · 32×23 cm, Print on Paper · 500 €

A lone sheep stands at the edge of a dark forest under a high full moon. The landscape is grainy and muted, almost monochrome, holding the animal in a quiet, exposed stillness. The title hints at an absence — the wolf that is not in the frame, but whose possibility shapes the scene. Part of the Stille series, Wolfgang treats safety as a fragile, momentary state: the calm of the pasture and the latent threat of the night held inside the same image.

A badger walking through a sunlit, golden autumn clearing.

Treacherous Delight

Photocollage · 08/2023 · 32×23 cm, Print on Paper · 500 €

Part of the Stille series, Treacherous Delight is a quiet inversion — a moment where light replaces shadow, and death is neither denied nor dramatized. Stillness becomes a space of transformation, not closure.

A blurred nocturnal scene with a winged figure in tall grass and a small badger-like animal in the foreground.

Still There

Photocollage · 07/2025 · 32×23 cm, Print on Paper · 500 €

In the dim grain of a nocturnal field, a fragile winged figure appears half-hidden among tall plants while a small animal body rests in the foreground. The image feels both witnessed and imagined, as though memory and apparition had fused into one unstable scene. Part of the Stille series, Still There lingers in the uncertainty of what remains present after disappearance — not as proof, but as a haunting trace that refuses to fully leave the image.

A young cow lies in a meadow at night beneath a full moon breaking through clouds.

Dream On

Photocollage · 32×23 cm, Print on Paper · 500 €

A young cow rests in a wide meadow under a clouded full moon. The light is cool and iridescent, the surface of the image worked into a soft, painterly texture that lifts the scene out of pure documentation. The animal seems untroubled, almost dreaming — yet the colours and grain create a quiet sense of unease, as if the calm could shift at any moment. Part of the Stille series, Dream On holds stillness as a fragile, in-between state: a creature at rest inside a landscape that is both familiar and slightly displaced.