Mona Von Wittlage

Modern man suffers from his existence. In order to bring his living environment under control, he constantly optimises himself with the greatest possible effort. He shapes his surroundings, tries to make sense of his undertakings, but permanently overtaxes himself under the given possibilities of his creative powers. Technical progress increasingly offers him an abundance of possibilities to shape and determine his individual life path, but denies him the guarantee of ultimate satisfaction resulting from his continuous restlessness. In order to break out of this vicious circle, he has created an illusory world that partially puts him off. For reality is the ugly betrayal of our desires and dreams. Having to endure this circumstance is the real tragedy of man.

While Friedrich Nietzsche describes art as the actual metaphysical activity of man [1], thus only in aesthetics does life appear justified, the course of the progress of knowledge culminates today in the question: What is the use of aesthetics, harmony and beauty in a world of discord of every conceivable kind? Our discomfort with our culture is confronted with our limited perception, which is moreover shrouded in the supposed creation of meaning. The world of wishful thinkin...

SELECTIVEBIOGRAPHY
Born in Ostercappeln and raised in Wittlage (Germany).
Studies in Cologne, Aix-en-Provence, London, Brussels, St Petersburg, Paris. Four university degrees from three European countries, high school degree in fine arts (pupil of R. Wake). Extensive travel and prolonged stays in Asia, Australia, Central and South America, North America, Europe, the Middle East, North and South Africa.
1994 Settles in Paris, France
1999-2000 Studio at Kunsthaus Rhenania in Cologne, Germany
Since 2010 Lives and works in Berlin
Since 2020 Lives and works in Berlin and in Cannes
Exhibitions, fair participations, auction sales in Paris, Strasburg, Cologne, London, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco
Street Art intervention project in Palais de Tokyo, Paris