Borders. While many people treat them as something objective and rigid, the reality has long been quite different.
Living with borders has long since become part of everyday life. They become a place of one’s own—one that changes, that shifts—depending on the will or unwillingness of the people who make the decisions. That means waiting in anguish.
But it also means that life takes place at the borders—despite all the cruel laws and inhumane policies.
A series of medium- to large-format paintings from the past three years are now brought together under the shared umbrella of *Abseits*—a space filled with stories, to which, despite all our unfathomable luck in the lottery, we can often only establish a distant connection. We can only glimpse the inhabitants of the border and their emotions through the traces they leave behind.
Abysses and blurring horizons emerge, accompanied by the footprints of life and waiting.
Landscape painting of the political present.
The series was exhibited alongside the works from the Cassandra Cycle at 48 Hours Neukölln 2026.