In the Adorno cycles, canonical images from art history are confronted with the realities of the climate crisis and environmental destruction. The Adorno Cycle I comprises 11 large-format paintings in which references to Botticelli, Manet, Gauguin, Rodin, Caspar David Friedrich, Franz Marc and Monet appear, transposed into a damaged present. Burns, cut-outs, painted reverse sides and real materials break up the closed picture plane and reveal the forces that remained invisible in the original works.

 The starting point is Adorno’s statement: “There is no right life in the wrong one.” The works ask what images of nature, beauty and redemption we can still afford today – and at what price. Painting serves not as consolation or accusation, but as a medium that holds up a mirror to us