Paula Doepfner

Paula Doepfner’s work combines powerful and fragile materials, scientific rigour, and poetic openness. She explores the inconsistency and complexity of inner conditions and addresses the difficulty to understand subjective experiences. Broken glass or melting ice enclose organic matters such as dried plants, or drawings with tiny handwritten excerpts taken from poetic or neuroscientific texts. The works deal with the incompatibility of emotion and thought, while at the same time create an awareness of the impossibility of complete comprehension of internal processes.

She has had solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Reutlingen, Goethe Institut in Washington D.C., S2A in New York, Kunstverein östliches Sauerland in Brilon, and Ionion Center for the Arts in Kefalonia, among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as  Kunstverein Mainz, Temporäre Kunsthalle in Berlin, A Foundation Liverpool, Bomann-Museum Celle, and Shedhalle in Tübingen.

Courtesy of Galerie Tanja Wagner