Iconic Identities
An Expanding Universe of Cultural Identities
Monuments of Care
Iconic Identities
Iconic Identities is an evolving body of work exploring care, identity, visibility, and belonging through painting, sculpture, digital media. Rather than a single series, it brings together interconnected groups of works that investigate how images shape the ways we see ourselves and one another.
The project began in 2020 during the lockdown near the German–Polish border. In the stillness of the rural landscape and the absence of everyday encounters, I started creating figures that responded to questions of care, connection, and community.
The roots of this work reach back much further. I grew up in the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge), surrounded by handcrafted wooden figures, nutcrackers, incense smokers, and Matryoshka dolls. These objects fascinated me from an early age. Each carried its own character, story, and symbolic language. Over time, this fascination developed into an artistic exploration of symbols, cultural traditions, and the ways identity and belonging become visible through images.
The first Iconic Mammas were painted as unique two-dimensional objects on cardboard. Each figure developed its own name, personality, and visual language. Together they formed a growing community connected by a shared idea: care.
Today, Iconic Identities continues to evolve in Berlin, where I live and work. The paintings have expanded into an interdisciplinary body of work that includes steel sculpture, Chromaluxe surfaces, digital image spaces, AI, and NFTs. The sculptures are produced together with my team Iconic Sculptures in a welding workshop in Leipzig, where industrial craftsmanship and artistic practice meet.
At the heart of Iconic Identities is care as a universal human capacity. It is embodied by people of all genders and generations and reflects protection, responsibility, solidarity, and our shared dependence on one another. The works seek to make visible forms of care that sustain communities while often remaining overlooked.
The Iconic Identities universe currently consists of interconnected series:
— Iconic Mammas – original paintings, objects, sculptures, cut-outs, and monuments of care.
— Iconic Queens – digital sculptures and tokenized artworks exploring autonomy, transformation, and contemporary identity.
Each series contributes a different perspective while remaining part of the same evolving artistic language. Together they form an open body of work that continues to grow through new figures, materials, and media.
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THE ORIGINAL WORKS
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70+ ORIGINAL PAINTINGS
The originals are presented almost like sacred collector cards — emotionally charged objects between pop culture, memory and archetype.
Each painting represents an Iconic Mamma:
archetypes of motherhood, love, care and protection.
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SCULPTURE & PROCESS
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The paintings move beyond the two-dimensional surface and enter a spatial dimension.
Welded steel constructions, Chromaluxe surfaces and handcrafted details create unique hybrid sculptures between physical object and digital ownership.
• steel constructions
• welded sculptures
• Chromaluxe prints
• collectible objects
• NFT-linked editions
• physical + digital ownership
Steel. Fire. Transformation.
Chicago – Iconic Mamma, 2026
Hybrid sculpture, ChromaLuxe print, stainless steel
Sculpture: 214 × 114 × 5 cm / Base: 145 × 60 cm
Edition: 1 / Weight: approx. 170 kg
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THE FIRST 1/1 NFT
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ICONIC QUEENS
1/1 NFT on Ethereum
Minted on Manifold
This 1/1 marks the beginning of the journey — where motherhood becomes icon, memory becomes metal, and art enters the next dimension.
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THE FIRST CATALOG
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A book in the making.
The first catalog is currently in development and will document the entire world of Iconic Mammas & Iconic Queens.
Featuring:
• original paintings
• sculptures
• NFT works
• studio process
• texts and curatorial perspectives
All early supporters acquiring an original work and will become part of the Founding Collectors page and be credited by name in the first catalog edition.
The idea is to build a body of work and also a documented community around the very beginning of the series.
How is value created?
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Motherhood appears in my work as an archetype of care—a universal human capacity embodied by people of all genders. It reflects connection, responsibility, and the shared experience of caring for one another.
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My artistic practice moves between painting, drawing, steel sculpture, digital media, Chromaluxe surfaces, and NFTs. Working across disciplines allows me to explore social and emotional questions through different material forms.
At the center of my work are care, visibility, belonging, and the conditions that shape human potential. I am interested in how recognition is created, why some lives become visible while others remain unseen, and how identity is shaped by social structures and perspective.
Rather than offering answers, my works create spaces for reflection and encounter. Motherhood appears as an archetype of care—a universal human capacity embodied by people of all genders. It reflects connection, responsibility, and our shared capacity to care for one another.
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When Visibility Becomes Existence
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Reality is never simply given. It emerges through perception, images, language, technology, and collective imagination. My artistic practice explores how visual representation shapes the ways we understand ourselves and the world around us.
Artificial intelligence has become an essential medium within this investigation. Rather than serving as a tool for imitation, AI opens a space in which images can exist independently of physical production. An idea begins to unfold the moment it becomes visible. Images generate emotions, influence perception, and participate in the construction of social reality long before they materialize as objects.
This shift transforms my understanding of sculpture and materiality. Physical sculptures and digital images do not stand in opposition; they exist within a continuous dialogue. Steel, Chromaluxe, painting, AI-generated imagery, and digital environments each embody different states of the same artistic inquiry. Material becomes one possible manifestation of an image rather than its final destination.
My work therefore investigates the relationship between imagination and materiality, between physical presence and digital existence. It asks how images acquire meaning, how they shape collective memory, and how visibility itself can become a form of existence.
AI does not replace artistic authorship. It expands the space in which artistic ideas can be imagined, tested, and experienced, allowing the boundaries between object, image, and imagination to remain open.
Vision exists before matter. What begins as an inner image already carries its own reality long before it becomes physical form. Sculpture appears as a presence of a new era — situated between humanity, memory, technology, and future imagination.