Sandra Pulina’s works translate the complex content as well as the beauty and elegance of traditional oil painting into a light, contemporary appearance. Her works are abstract interpretations of old master paintings, reminiscent of mythological scenes of love, longing and passion. Her work combines her uniquely developed photographic techniques with painterly questions. Sandra’s award-winning artworks can be found in prestigious private and institutional collections.

In her paintings, Sandra Pulina explores the potential of a formal-abstract design of painterly surfaces precisely by integrating spatial objects and ornamental fragments into her compositions. She transforms museum objects, historical ornaments and their presentation levels of framing and display cases into vocabulary-like ciphers and thus stages an interplay of image and representation in her works with cool calculation. She emphasizes this experiment between abstraction and figuration, external reference and artistic self-questioning by inserting smaller formats into her series of experiments, which seem like derivations of the pictorial inventory of the larger paintings. What could be a mere code in the picture is decoupled on the wall to become a spatial object. In her works, Sandra Pulina opens up questions of order and representation and undermines the myth that painting is a self-contained affair on white walls.

Sandra Pulina is a master student and graduate of the Kunstakademie Münster. She studied fine art in Münster and art history in Münster and Florence.

Study visits to New York, Florence and most recently Rome in particular have had a decisive influence on her work.

Find out more at www.sandra-pulina.de or follow @sandra.pulina on Instagram.

Place: Koppelschleuse Art Center

Admission: free