Iconic Identities
Painting, sculpture and digital works
Care, visibility and belonging.
“Visibility is already a form of existence.”
A growing body of work
Iconic Identities connects painting, sculpture and digital media through a shared question: how can care become visible? The work brings together two interconnected series, Iconic Mammas and Iconic Queens, exploring identity, belonging and our responsibility for one another.
I began the project in 2020 in Bad Muskau. Its roots lie in the handcrafted figures and folk traditions of my childhood in the Erzgebirge. The first Mammas were painted on cut cardboard, each with its own name, character and visual language.
Today, the work extends from these intimate originals to monumental steel sculptures and digital environments. Developed in Berlin and Bad Muskau, with sculptures produced in collaboration with my team in Leipzig, the project keeps moving between personal memory, material experimentation and public presence.
ORIGINAL WORKS
Iconic Mammas
Unique paintings and cut-out objects on cardboard form the starting point of the series. Colour, ornament and individual names give each Mamma its own presence within a growing community of figures.
The complete selection, with dimensions and work enquiries, is available in the protected Studio Access area.
SCULPTURE & PROCESS
The painted figure becomes a body in space. Welded steel structures, ChromaLuxe surfaces and handcrafted details translate the originals into sculptures that move between image and object.
Produced with my team in a Leipzig welding workshop, the works bring industrial craftsmanship into dialogue with painting. At monumental scale, care becomes a visible presence in public and museum spaces.
Public sculpture
Iconic Mamma Chicago, 2026
ChromaLuxe print and stainless steel
Sculpture: 214 × 114 × 5 cm
Base: 145 × 60 cm
Edition: 1 · Weight: approx. 170 kg
Acquired by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony.
Exhibited at Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz.
DIGITAL WORKS
Iconic Queens
Iconic Queens explores autonomy, transformation and contemporary identity through digital sculpture and tokenized artworks.
The project includes a 1/1 NFT on Ethereum, minted through Manifold. The collection can be viewed on OpenSea.
PUBLICATION
The catalogue
In development
The first catalogue is in development. It will bring together original paintings, sculptures and digital works from Iconic Mammas and Iconic Queens, alongside studio processes, texts and curatorial perspectives.
For information about the publication and its availability, please get in touch.
Care
Care sustains communities. The work gives it a visible form.
Motherhood appears in my work as an archetype of care, extending beyond gender and generation. It speaks of protection, responsibility and our dependence on one another.
Working across painting, steel and digital media, I ask which lives and forms of labour receive recognition. The figures create a space to encounter these questions through material, scale and individual presence.
When visibility becomes existence
Images shape perception before they become physical objects. In my practice, AI-generated imagery and digital environments offer spaces to imagine, test and experience sculptural ideas.
Painting, steel, ChromaLuxe and digital images are different states of the same inquiry. Their dialogue asks how an image acquires meaning, enters collective memory and becomes a presence in the world.
AI expands this field of experimentation while artistic authorship remains central.