Experimental art emerges where painting becomes an open process. Color, material, and movement become starting points for a picture 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 emerge from spontaneous movements, from splashes of paint, drips and overlaps. Chance plays just as much a role as deliberate painterly decisions. This creates pictorial spaces 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 can be experienced directly. Works from the RE series also draw on 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 painting process itself. Paint is thrown, layered, overlaid, or fragmented. This gives rise to surprising image structures that develop out of the dynamics of the working process.

Series Splash and RE

Many of the works shown here belong to series that explore experimental image processes. The series Splash works with spontaneous movements of paint and splatters, while works from RE develop new painterly structures from paint residues and fragments.

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