Maria Kossak’s visual work builds upon the dialogue between temporal and spatial dimensions. She explores the historical connotations of gold and its ambivalent mediation between material power and spiritual transcendence, employing it as a marker of cultural references and as an index of the broader social values associated with it. She revises the iconographical usage of plated gold and adds to it a powerful metaphor of collective and personal longing. Her colour schemes range between earthy, morbid tones and palettes that shimmer with a translucent light. This subversive blurring of fixed styles, genres and time periods suggests a restless movement of moods and materials that is characteristic of Kossak’s creative impulse. Drawing on deeply personal experiences while transcending autobiography, she examines how memory, trauma and healing shape our perception of ourselves and the world around us. Her work asks where resilience originates in times of uncertainty, crisis and profound societal change.” Dr. Stephan von Wiese, curator.
SILVER LININGS EXHIBITION – every dark cloud has a silver lining, summer 2021
“Using this common proverb as a title for the show, I refer to the idea, that in every desperate situation there is an element of hope.”
In the Air – at the Dawn of this new Decade, Neukölln Town Hall, summer 2021
After its inaugural presentation at the start of the 2021 48h – Neukölln festival, the art- and urban intervention project will be accessible online
FATE *n VISION – how to emerge from a local crisis of global scale, summer 2020
“Spinning the yarn of HUMAN FATE, on the eternal WHEEL of TIME, let’s seek to co-create…”
Sound of the Earth – gold pigment painting installation, Berlin, summer 2014
These works form a meditative visual experience that encourages an open, attentive way of perception.
Artist talk #timerewind, Neukölln Opera House, summer 2019
” #timerwind enacts a cultural perspective study and is a symbol for the longing to overcome temporal and spatial limitations.“
Multimedia installation #timerewind, Neukölln Opera House, summer 2019
“Maria Magdalena is dancing on the canvas of art history, breathing new life into the Renaissance study of perspective by Leonardo da Vinci?”
Autumn 2018, Medusa Invicta exhibition @ SUGAR Food Art Week PARIS
„Myths are commonly framed as a reflection of patriarchal projections“
Summer 2018, woke up perfect- GALATEA @ 48h Neukoelln Festival, Berlin.
„Myths are a point of reference in the understanding of our misogynist culture“
