Experimental art emerges where painting becomes an open process. Color, material, and movement become the starting points of an image whose final form only develops in the course of the work. Traces of the painting process remain visible and themselves become a central component of the work.

Many of these works arise from spontaneous movements, from splashes of paint, drips and overlays. Chance plays just as much a role as conscious painterly decisions. In this way, pictorial spaces emerge that are not planned in advance but develop step by step from the interplay of material, color and movement.

This experimental approach becomes particularly visible in the Splash series. Color traces, splashes and dynamic movements create vibrant compositions in which energy and motion become directly tangible. Works from the RE series also employ experimental methods by combining paint residues, fragments and material traces into new pictorial structures.

Experimental art thus opens up a special form of abstract painting: images emerge from the process itself and remain open to different interpretations.

Painting as experiment

In experimental painting, the focus is not on a predetermined motif, but on the painterly process. Paint is thrown, layered, overlaid, or fragmented. This gives rise to surprising pictorial structures that develop out of the dynamics of the working process.

Series Splash and RE

Many of the works shown here belong to series in which experimental image processes are explored. The series Splash works with spontaneous movements of paint and splatters, while works from RE develop new painterly structures from leftover paint and fragments.

The following works present a selection of experimental abstract paintings from various series of my practice.