Isabelle Dyckerhoff

In the artist's words:

Isabelle Dyckerhoff's works demand a decelerated way of seeing. In her whites in particular, the fine differentiation of paper qualities and white tones only becomes apparent to the viewer on closer inspection. Her minimalist collages defy clear genre classification: the hand-torn paper itself becomes a pictorial medium.

As a border crosser, Dyckerhoff moves at the interface between painting and drawing, object and sculpture, always committed to the minimal. Her artistic practice revolves around questions that arise from classic materials such as paper, canvas and paint. She examines lines, their interplay and their spatial effect, developing orders and structures that are reminiscent of traditional techniques and at the same time address the collective cultural memory.

A central concern of her work is the exploration of perception as a process that is formed and constantly changes through seeing. The mostly serial works consciously preserve the traces of their creation and refer to the tension between control and chance. Dyckerhoff's works are not to be understood as images, but as visual models of thought that understand perception as an active and open process.

The work of Jerry Zeniuk's student has been presented in numerous national and international exhibitions and is represented in important collections.