In the anonymity of the big city, everyone is busy with themselves, only careful not to be late for work, to have a hot coffee on the way and not to forget to take their shirts to the laundry. The most dedicated self-optimizers overtake resigned office workers jogging.Original size: 130x100, oil on canvas, 2014
The tranquility of familiar life in the run-down house that, akin to Noah's Ark, houses its residents, is deceptive. An attentive observer could empathize the individual fates and relationships.Original size: 120x130, oil on canvas, 2014
Amidst the mystical smoke, one can imagine oneself inside the long-lost opium caves, one sees the outlines of the figures: street cooks and idlers, young couple reaching out for a cigarette, the employees, who are on the way in breathtaking heights hurrying home.Original size: 150x100, oil on canvas, 2014
Rising from the prosaic reality behind the scenes the white swans of Bolshoi are about to escape into the floating immateriality the stage represents.Original size: 150x345, oil on canvas, 2020-2021
The weightless marble top of the basilica, in which pale pink, light blue and soft green merge into a transcendental light shade - the color white, thereby reabsorbing all other colors.Original size: 110x180, oil on canvas
The women enjoying the last rays of light of the evening from underneath a blind spend a few spare minutes between the office, shopping and home owed to the light autumn rain. You can tell from the tense posture of the waiter that the rush of dinner guests is imminent.Original size: 70x130, oil on canvas, 2016
The first kiss that will be remembered forever: sea salt on hesitant lips, rush of the waves, weightlessness of the body.Original size: 80x100, oil on canvas, 2014
Strolling tourists marvel at the huge cruise that is just entering port. The approaching twilight can be felt already in the freshness in the shades. The Venetians, holding their faces towards the setting sun, savor the aromas of the aperitifs and cigarettes.Original size: 96x160, oil on canvas
The starched tablecloths are straightened and bright. Polished glasses are being placed upon the tables, marking the hour, when the terrace is almost deserted underneath the afternoon sun.Original size: 80x120, oil on canvas
As if on the floor of a colored sea, in the waves of the honking traffic, the Manhattanites stream towards their own four walls. Packed with heavy shopping bags, they long to have arrived at theirselves.Original size: 90x120, oil on canvas, 2014
Accompanied by street noise and guitar playing, sultry air flows through the open window into the tightly filled room of the bar. Ernest Hemingway should once have ended his days in the Cuban capital here, listening and observing. Simulated indifference or casual interest, dismissive glances are exchanged. The faces marked by life of the drop-outs and the naive enthusiasm in the eyes of the tourists merge in the intoxication of Mochitos.Original size: 160x120, oil on canvas, 2014
Violet shadows of dusk linger in the corners, otherwise the neon lights of the shops and street lamps would dominate in the magical moment of twilight. Waiting for an encounter, harmless flirting, intimate silence of being absorbed in one’s own thoughts - in the interior of the bistro, where the endless traffic flows past, all types of moods appear to be represented.Original size: 120x160, oil on canvas, 2018
A dense, colorful mess on the outside tables of a Parisian cafe. The waiters in the background are busy refilling glasses, while the rushing street life is reflected in the window fronts. The worries of a single person go unnoticed, lost seamlessly in the cheerful backdrop.Original size: 80x120, oil on canvas, 2012
A coffee mug, forgotten on the window counter, is the only remainder of a person who just sat there, watching the hustle and bustle of the street. By now the restless city has reclaimed them.Original size: 80x110, oil on canvas, 2018
As if she was dream walking, the dancer playfully explores her own body in a continuing sequence of ffragmented gestures, visibly amazed by its grace.Original size: 100x200, oil on canvas, 2019
Separated by the misty window of the champagne bar, they eyed each other: she, cashmere coat around her shoulder - he, shivering, with a glass of wine, on the other side of the rainy street.Original size: 100x100, oil on canvas, 2018
One last dab of eyeshadow to complete the combat gear! It protects, makes one invulnerable and fosters security in one’s own beauty - in a world making women having to fend for themselves.Original size: 100x120, oil on canvas
Illuminated by the sparkling sunrays, the water in the Grand Canal changes color. The flashes of light flare up on the golden tips of the gondolas. The patrician facades of the palaces shine blindingly in the glowing air. An illusion of limitless happiness.Original size: 80x110, oil on canvas
The young Parisiennes, like other-worldly time travelers from the Bella epoch, appear in tiny windows of the light, that pushes through the bright green April leaves.Original size: 80x110, oil on canvas, 2018
Tired, wiry hands tell the story of a hard day’s work. They hold books and newspapers or a coke can, anything to make the long way back underneath the stark neon lights of the Moscow subway more bearable.Original size: 100x100, oil on canvas
The dazzling light of the low sun floods the winter garden of the famous cafe. The unexpected warmth after a brief snow storm draws visitors outside.
Sunspots jump on the melted ground and get caught in the shining glasses.Original size: 120x140, oil on canvas, 2018
Which memories does the smell of a lemon peel conjure up in the mysterious girl? Stealing an unobserved moment in the, as-of-yet empty, bar, she devotedly dives into a hidden universe.Original size: 90x130, oil on canvas
The shopping mall appears akin to an oversized spaceship in which escalators tirelessly, mechanically transport living beings towards the promise of more beauty, happiness and desirability to be bought.Original size: 100x140, oil on canvas, 2019
Wrapped in the exhaust clouds of the museum-like American vintage cars, the arcades of the busy street appear to be bathed in pastel colors. Driven by everyday routine, the “Habaneros” hurry across the alternating stripes of shadows and the morning light.Original size: 100x105, oil on canvas, 2015
The past, embedded in the present of the eternal city, beckons and torments with its unsolved puzzles. Can a secret be extracted from the old book?Original size: 70x80, oil on canvas
The young “Habanera” strolls across the Plaza Vieja with the natural security, that comes naturally to true beauty.Original size: 80x110, oil on canvas, 2015
A myth, an attitude towards life, a fleeting recollection turns every cup of coffee, every cigarette into a mystery at the little tables of the Cafe "Les Deux Magots".Original size: 80x120, oil on canvas, 2014
Neither inner reason nor all valid objections can deter the two opulence-loving friends from their longing for luxury.Original size: 100x100, oil on canvas, 2011
Only from behind does an unnoticed witness perceive the differently shaped shadows and postures, how blue and yellow merge into green shades, the standing heat is only moved slowly in the room by a ceiling fan. They take in the state of mind of the entire bar.Original size: 100x160, oil on canvas, 2017
The idyllic scenery is rendered ambivalent through the phrase “Did he ask you?”. The question itself could imply subliminal dissatisfaction in a situation that threatens to topple over or the timid hope of a happy match.Original size: 70x100, oil on canvas
