Anne Wölk’s paintings of the night sky and open galaxies test the margins between art and reality.
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Using traditional methods and materials, Wölk references space telescope images while remixing them with elements of modern culture, “layering familiar references in new otherworldly surroundings.”
Born and raised in former East Germany in the town of Jena, Wölk grew up close to a center for lasers and optics technology. There, she encountered simulations of the cosmos and demonstrations of interplanetary travel—thus igniting a passion for attempting to understand the vastness of the universe.
Drawing upon Eastern European masters of landscape, she takes those techniques into interstellar landscapes—often imagining and inventing new environments.
“As my viewers position themselves amongst the stars on these new planets, they reconcile the daunting and often hostile universe with their own human nature,” said Wölk.
Wölk’s multidisciplinary paintings—both rooted in romanticism and photorealism—take you on a journey to fictional planets full of interstellar dust, starscapes, flowing color, and light. Familiar images of popular images of space are subverted with gradients, digital alterations, and information gaps—creating an entirely new landscape of her own; it is a landscape that Wölk describes as a speculative future.