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Liebe Kunstfreunde,

hiermit laden wir Sie/euch zu einer besonderen Ausstellung ins Atelier- und Künstlerhaus Duisburg ein. Gefördert durch die Sparkassenstiftung Duisburg konnten René Sikkes und Jannine Koch im Rahmen einer künstlerischen Zusammenarbeit ein foto-literarisches Projekt umsetzen, welches die Stadt Duisburg ins Zentrum stellt.

Go to the Website Ruhressenz.de

Jannine Koch and I have started a new joint project under the name „Feldbesichtigung“. As part of our artistic collaboration, a group of works is being created that focuses on the city of Duisburg. I first take photographs for this, to which Jannine Koch then responds in a literary way. This new project is part of our series of projects with the collective name „Ruhressenz“.

Go to the Website Ruhressenz.de

The city of Gelsenkirchen awarded me in 2024 a grant for artistic research into „Photography on the Borders of Painting“.

The aim of my research is to investigate aesthetic and substansive changes in my images when I use photography not as a final product but as a creative tool in conjunction with painting. In parallel to theoretical research into other artists‘ approaches, I experiment with different techniques to explore their possibilities and challenges. My interest lies in finding a meaningful middle ground between photography and painting. By asking the question „What more can photography be?“, I try to create works in combination with painting that represent a cross-genre synthesis.