Collection: Maxi Weimann

Born in 1986, the artist Maxi Weimann explores the fetishization of everyday objects and personal memories in her drawings, paintings, photographs, installations, and sound works. She examines this phenomenon in terms of a magical possession that imbues the things, experiences, or moments to which we are attached with a special, often idealized, meaning.

This meaning becomes anchored within us like an invisible spirit: absent in outward appearance, yet always present in its effect on the individual who holds onto it.

In this series of collages, she shows Fragmented female bodies. Maxi Weimann's interventions anonymize the figures, making them appear ghostly and pervasive within the pictorial space. Abstract, playful islands of color and form do not merely complement the bodies, but rather add their own independent abstraction, sometimes destroying and censoring the narrative of the bodies, or conversely framing and emphasizing them, thus exploring and questioning the narrative relevance of the collaged elements. Overlaps with reduced, sometimes mischievously and humorously abstract elements create movement and spatial density without revealing the figures' identities.

Collage thus becomes a process that challenges our perception: What makes an object meaningful? When does it come to the forefront, when does it become a ghost that accompanies us, reminding us of our own experiences?

The works explore the tension between presence and absence, a feeling of being "in-between" and anonymity, as well as the unfamiliar within one's own (or rather, one's own) gaze, and raise questions about relevance and representation in the visual arts. The works invite us to train our perception: to focus on what we otherwise overlook, what "reminds" us yet remains foreign.

By coupling the works with the taste profiles of the wines curated by Jannis Böttger, the potential of a further level of associations, emotions, and personal memories is synesthetically evoked in the viewer, with which he can experience the collages.

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Born in 1986, lives and works in Berlin

education

2008-2013 Mainz Academy of Fine Arts, Studies of Fine Art in the class of Prof. Friedemann Hahn (Painting)

2010-2011 Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Studies of Fine Art in the class of Prof. Eberhard Bosslet (Installation and Space)

2013-2014 Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Studies of Fine Art in the class of Prof. Joachim Blank (Media Art)

exhibitions (S) solo show, (G) group show

2024

Retrospective, Studio Nest, Berlin (S)

2023

Art and Souna, Studio Nest, Berlin (G)

2022
BAAM – Berlin Affordable Art Market (G)

2021
Chilean Conexion, Monopol Berlin (G)
BAAM – Berlin Affordable Art Market (G)

2014
Troy, Blank Class, Held Department Store Leipzig (G)
Soglia Show 3, Soglia Artspace, Leipzig (G)
Sentimental Johnny, Boppstraße branch, Mainz (S)

2013
Analysis Paradise, Peng Society for the Promotion of Design, Art and Communication, Mainz (G)
System of Diplomatic Chaos, Nassauischer Kunstverein (NKV), Wiesbaden (G)
Next Artists, ArtSpace RheinMain, Offenbach (G)
Hidden Track, Art in the Member's Office, State Parliament Mainz (G)

2012
Confused erections, consultation with Dr. Intenso, branch office Boppstraße Mainz (S)

2011
Exhibition of works by the Bosslet class, Pfotenhauerstraße branch, Dresden (G)
Jòvenes Artistas de Dresden, Centro de Grabado Contemporáneo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (G)

COOP 6, former Diamond Exchange, Frankfurt am Main (G)
Crime and Image, Walkmühle Artists' Association, Wiesbaden (G)
Sand for the Eyes – Tabula Rasa, Kunstraum Harkort, Leipzig (G)

contact web: www.maxiweimann.de - IG: maxi_weimann - mail: maxiweimann@gmx.de