About this series

How much colour does a painting need to be a painting? This question is at the heart of Anna Maria Rożnowska’s work. Her work explores the boundaries of minimalism, testing how far visual information can be reduced without losing the impact and expressiveness of an image. The deliberate reduction to a minimum of colour creates a remarkable tension between presence and absence.

Rożnowska’s works challenge us to reflect on the existence and non-existence of a work of art. They invite the viewer to fill the reduced palette with their own imagination, associations and emotions. Unlike in the 1950s, when an abstract painting was considered to be the painting par excellence, here the focus is on a new form of interaction between the work and the viewer.

In this way, the artist addresses a central longing of modernity: the desire for the invisible, for the darkness, for the for the unknown, for the subconscious.

Anna Maria Roznowska

is an artist and director based in Berlin. Her film ‘BABY BITCHKA’ (2020), which was shown at the 54th Hof International Film Festival, received several nominations. Roznowska’s artistic approach is interdisciplinary, fusing various elements of art into installations that offer thought-provoking experiences. Roznowska grew up in Hamburg and later studied philosophy and art history at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and film studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin. In 2011, she was accepted to the HFBK Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and subsequently studied directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin. Her exhibitions have taken place at Stattbad Wedding, Schinkel Pavillon, Loophole Berlin.