Vivid colour and focus
The artist explores everyday objects and situations, which she documents and sometimes stages in colourful photographs. With great precision and sensitivity, Backhaus perceives the world around her and approaches it in an immediate way: Light and colour as well as their painterly realisation are the artist’s most important means. With visual reflections and fragments, her motifs are situated between reality and abstraction. Recently, her free play with materials has also given rise to staged still lifes, collages and minimalist experiments with colour and light.
Our EEW Art Booklet features a selection of the works created and shares insights into how they came to life.
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Jessica Backhaus (born 1970 in Cuxhaven) studied photography and visual communications in Paris and worked from 1995 until 2009 in New York. Since 2009, the artist has lived in Berlin. Her work has been shown internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Kunsthalle Erfurt dedicated a major solo museum exhibition to Jessica Backhaus in 2013. Her art can be found in numerous public and private collections.