About

Lilian Mühlenkamp (b. 1991), Berlin based artist:

Next to my love for experimenting and developing my individual technique, my main inspiration is my synesthesia. One sensory perception is strongly coupled with another (e.g.: most common synesthesia is sound-colour perception). Conversation, friends or interpersonal situations are “seen” as moving colour formations in front of my inner eye. This affects my daily life as much as my creative process and conception of an artwork.

Even though these motions can’t be copied, I aim to transport vividness, the feeling of floating and moving forms and colours and depth onto the canvas. But it really lies in the eye of the viewer to feel my paintings sensuously.

My abstract works on self-framed large sized canvases explore controlled free-flow by using a vibrant technique of color application. In my creative process tension between aleatory (randomly) and openly forming moments of inviting randomness and precise guidance of the material is omnipresent.

To create something out of it, to shape, frame it and “communicate” with it is to me the most interesting part of the act of painting.