Who are you? Where are you from? What do you do?

I’m a painter. My professor was Neo Rauch. I live and work in Leipzig.

 Your style in 3 words?

In my paintings plants and animals become a kind of human characters. They seem to live in a endless space created by color, gone to color.

What is your weakness?

Sometimes I’m distractible

What is your strength?

I have a lot of energy

What makes you different?

To create special landscapes I use my own sensitive cognition.

 How do you face uncertainties?

With interest

 A few words about your work and your current projects?

My current work is influenced by fauna and flora of the seaworld.Mostly I paint with oil on canvas.I work on some pictures with anemones, jelleyfishes and octopusses.

What inspires you?

music, certain colours, landscapes, structures and certain people

 Any new projects coming up?

Until April 20th you can see my exhibition ‘woman on water’, ASPN, at the Spinnerei Leipzig I’ll open my studio in Leipzig for the spinnerei-weekend (rundgang) on May 4th-5th 2013. Moreover I’ll have an exhibition in Berlin in ‚Meinblau’ in May

Kontakt: Friederike Jokisch

Email: hey@friederike-jokisch.de

 Author: Christine Elkemann dnc.elkemann@gmail.com