Artist Statement

“I am interested in moving images. In my works fragments combine to one, objects fade into each other, light directs the viewer’s eye, shadows recall physicality and transparencies orchestrate spatial depth.”

My works are concerned with aspects of process, media-related questions about drawing, painting and printmaking, and the impact of mechanical reproduction on ideas of the body, identity, society and mass-consumption. In the construction of structures, I explore the connections between phenomena of perception, artistic activity and models of space and time.

I create ‘Partituren’ as a means of concretizing different levels in my work process which unfolds from an idea through notes, sketches, and diagrams to final drawings and further expands in the medium of printmaking and painting. The presentations of my image compositions often unfold like maps over an entire wall and floor space and are cartographic documents of an action to highlight shifts in viewing habits and examine the concept of objectivity. My systems of meaning and relationships arise from the fragmentary or in the aspect of disappearance.

For a series of pastel drawings titled ‘Light Notes’ I use a layering drawing process to materialize temporal observations of changes in nature, light and shadows. Recognizable forms and colors gradually dissolve into non-objective associated matter. The resulting impressions are accumulated transformations which evoke interpretations of embodied places, sounds and memories but without direct statements.

In a current sequence of drawings in colored pencil, I combine fragments of seen, remembered and collected items from the city’s everyday scenery which signify personal property, cultural found objects and the rhythmic flow of façade elements. While merging the public into a private world the narratives of desire, truth and loss run through this juxtaposition of drawn imagery.

Miriam Nöske
2026