Matthias Menne

I live and work in Bensberg near Cologne, Germany. In my professional life I had worked first as a teacher of biology and sports and then for a long time in information technology and practiced art only on the side. For a good four years I have concentrated entirely on painting. My diverse works follow the tradition of abstract expressionism with a psychological orientation.

ARTIST STATEMENT
"My art opens inwards"

(short version)
With a strong interest in psychology, I create multilayered and profound visual worlds. The subject of the current “The Mindfulness Series” is an inner reality with thoughts and emotions, with which the viewer can resonate in ever new ways. "Let yourself in on me, then I tell you something - and show you something of yourself!".

(long version)
With a strong interest in psychology, I create multilayered and profound visual worlds. My works are therefore built up from a whole series of overlapping and often translucent layers of color and structures. In this way I achieve an in-depth complexity that resists a mundane, representational appropriation. I let myself in on a process-related abstract painting that gives space to intuition, the unconscious, the sensing and empathy. This can mean that the resu...