Franziska Dörfel
Franziska Dörfel was born in 1982 in Rostock, East Germany. After completing high school and training in wood carving in Thuringia, she began a teacher training course in art and philosophy at the University of Greifswald. Since then, she has worked intensively and continuously with painting.
Her studies in painting under Prof. Pleuger at the University of Art Burg Giebichenstein in Halle/Saale sparked her interest in the techniques of the old masters, while simultaneously deepening her engagement with abstract and contemporary art. Her fascination with exploring and overcoming the boundaries between abstraction and figurative painting remains unbroken.
Through numerous journeys, she has experienced significant personal development. Since 2018, she has been working intensively in her studio on refining and evolving her artistic expression. In 2019, she became a member of the artists’ group “Rosa Garage” and has since participated in regional exhibitions in Lower Saxony. Her works are included in private collections across Germany. In 2024, she decided to participate in international competitions to increase the visibility of her artistic career.
Statement:
The starting point of my work is the informal painting in oil on canvas.
In the gesture application of colour on the canvas I create a stage for my themes.
In its creation, the canvas is an open space that develops and changes through the process of feeling the existing abstract colour spaces. My artistic research is on the superposition, densification and transparency of colour. Sometimes pastos or glazed she strengthens my picture themes, which I work out layer by layer.
My works deal with the duality of human being and with the deeper, often contradictory complexity of our existence. My painting is the visualisation of inner worlds. My paintings show different levels of inner spaces that move between consciousness and subconscious, trying to understand man with his emotions and entanglements, the core of his actions. I realise again and again that the relationship with ourselves and our environment is more intense than we think.
Picturesquely I refer to an old master approach. But deliberately break through it with contemporary elements and disturbing factors and thereby create tension. This tension is the focus of my work.
I understand the high degree of encryption in my work as a way to put viewing habits to the test and to encourage thinking beyond that.
