Die halbe Miete Painting

I work with figurative painting as a site of pressure and confrontation. My practice is rooted in classical painting, but deliberately pushed toward instability, collapse, and physical gesture. I am interested in moments where the image begins to fail — where bodies collide, dissolve, or resist being fully represented. Painting, for me, is not about description or harmony, but about tension, ambiguity, and the limits of control. My work often engages with charged imagery and cultural symbols, not to illustrate them, but to expose their contradictions. I approach painting as a direct, physical act: fast, decisive, and irreversible. I do not work through repetition or production. Each painting defines its own conditions and place within a coherent body of work.