Collection: Magdalena Cichon

„It is a fundamental principle of Magdalena Cichon’s work not to offer any ultimate signs – neither to herself nor the viewer. Continually, new constellations between color, shape and texture arise. As a viewer, we quickly realize that we are not entitled to any secure knowledge or distinct recognition. Magdalena Cichon works with what is unexpected and volatile; her strategy relies on the potential of coincidence as well as her conscious interventions.“

- Angelika Steinmetz-Oppelland, Art historian

Magdalena just finished her Ph.D. studies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar at the Faculty of Art and Design and has been part of more than 15 group and solo exhibitions throughout the past years. 

Artist Statement

Apart from the traditional way of acting that we usually imagine as a goal-oriented process exerted by a definable subject, Taoist philosophy knows another way – some kind of conscious laissez-faire blurring the lines between an acting subject or agent on the one hand, and spontaneous impulses or external influences on the other. In my paintings, I’m striving for a balance between these two strategies – by making use of the natural traits of the painting material and selecting the outcomes of accidental processes; by playing with depiction and abstraction; by letting the unconscious form the figures without a model or photo present; by investigating human traits and behaviours unknown and strange to me, searching to distill anthropological constants.