"... to believe that imagination can create worlds, that magic exists - where fairy tales, hybrid creatures and myths meet the innermost being of man. Maria Wirth's paintings take us to precisely this place: a space between reality and imagination, between memory and dream. Her paintings are powerful, multi-layered - and at the same time deeply personal.

Maria Wirth creates pictorial spaces that take us into the depths of human experience. Her works touch on fundamental themes such as longing, fear, love, violence, desire, life and death - not explanatory, but tangible. With poetic imagery and sensitive composition, she opens up inner landscapes in which figures lose themselves or find themselves. Scenes that combine dream and reality - and make something visible that often remains hidden."

[from the exhibition text of "Nimmerland", 2025 Galerie Grolman Berlin]