Bielefelder Kunstverein

Specific landscapes and nature itself usually form the starting point for the artistic works of Jessica Warboys. Also highly significant for her are biographical background material and a concern with Western society’s collective memory. Her paintings, sculptures and videos bear traces of the immediate surroundings and of performative sequences of actions. Natural elements like water, light, colour pigments, various objects and vehicles for imagery thus become independent actors. The artist exploits the physical characteristics of the materials she uses and applies them artistically, in order to foster new types of pictures. In all this, openness in form is a fundamental aspect, together with documenting and making transparent the way the pictures are produced as a part of the working process. As a matter of principle, Warboys relates closely to space in her work. How the exhibition presents it adds further emphasis to this approach. The exhibition in the Bielefelder Kunstverein is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a German institution and will show groupings of new work.