Maria Wirth, Berlin, artist, painting
(c) Christian Wewerka

In my artistic work, I deal with the Self as a place of embodiment and reinterpretation of cultural conventions, social norms and individual realisation. I want to create a space in my pictures that makes visible what moves people emotionally and mentally — in confrontation with everything they do not have at their disposal: History and society (form, discipline, values) as well as nature and freedom (drive, desire, will). The sensual power of colour and the composition of figures developed in the process is just as relevant to me as the re-evaluation of leitmotifs and mythological figures from the history of art and literature, particularly in relation to female roles and concepts of femininity. They reflect both, the historicity of subjective existence and the contingency of truths.

Maria Wirth, painting, artist, berlin
Parzenstunde - oil on canvas, 100 x 80cm, 2022