Rubica Von Streng

How to best visualize the questions that arise whilst searching for a meaning in life? Thus enabling others as well as myself to actually envision them. Which techniques and areas of projection are suitable to convey those questions that are of lasting importance to me — and possibly to others?
Which paths of exploration and decoding could I chose in my search for answers – and which paths of decryption do I offer the viewers of my works?
Anyone who is grappling with current events as a subject in their art has to find his or her own answers to those questions. And as our modern world has become ever more complex, there is a tendency to simplify, as it would result in a whac-a-mole, if we attempted to understand and explain all its details. Nonetheless, I am trying to bear that challenge every day. Luckily, the effort is not in vain, for it yields inspiration and fresh ideas that sublimate and take shape in my paintings.
In preliminary studies and during the actual process of painting, those sublimates are first bopping up as fragments, which can be very heterogeneous. At first glance, they might not even fit together. This contradiction, however, slowly but surely disappears. Gradually, the boundaries between the fragments are ...

2012 Studies of Arts | Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe | Ernst Caramelle
2014 Studies of Arts | Universität der Künste UDK Berlin | Mark Lammert
2018 Graduate of Arts | Universität der Künste UDK Berlin
2018 Master of Arts | Universität der Künste UDK Berlin
2018 Studies of Art History | Freie Universität FU Berlin

2020 | A Room Of Her Own II | Anahita Contemporary | Berlin
2020 | A Matter Of Touch | Kunst- und Projekthaus | Berlin
2020 | PArt | Online Exhibition | Producers Art Platform
2020 | Online Exhibition May 2020 | Galerie U 108 | Munich
2019/2020 | Taking Root | KIT Kunst im Tunnel | Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2019 | hART MUC 2019 | Galerie U 108 | Munich
2018 | Meisterschüler Ausstellung | Universität der Künste Berlin
2018 | TOTENTANZ | Absolventen Ausstellung | Universität der Künste Berlin
2017 | INSIDE OUT | Universität der Künste Berlin
2017 | Blick hinter die Kulissen | Rathausgalerie, Galerie am Schloß Brühl | Max Ernst Stipendium
2016 | INNER VISION | Universität der Künste Berlin
2015 | Universität der Künste Berlin
2015 | Young Positions | Galerie Pankow | Berlin
2014 | Open Ateliers | VERFORMUNG | Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe
2013 | Open Ateliers | NETZWERKE | Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe