Kristin Triphan’s paintings are an encounter with nature and, at the same time, an encounter with the self. Her paintings depict landscapes, but also moods and intense moments connected to the experience of nature.
Kristin Triphan was born and raised in the Ore Mountains; she now lives and works in Rostock and the Uckermark. “Nature, the sea, and, of course, the mountains are an important part of my life and my inspiration,” says Kristin Triphan about herself. She is self-taught and takes great joy in experimenting. Graphics, watercolor, and acrylic meet charcoal, putty, sand, or even coffee. Different materials are combined, layered, and developed layer by layer into a unique visual world. It is precisely this materiality that lends her works a special depth and allows the surface of her paintings to almost become a landscape in its own right.
The artist finds inspiration in nature, music, and travel. She is less interested in a lifelike depiction of a specific place than in what a landscape evokes within us: tranquility and vastness, light and darkness, closeness and distance, transience and new beginnings. Straddling the line between figuration and abstraction, her paintings thus create space for the viewer’s own reflections. A dark expanse becomes night; a textured surface becomes earth, rock, or water. Nature is not merely depicted but becomes a sensory experience through color, texture, and material. Her works serve as a reminder that the beauty of natural landscapes is by no means a given. This perspective is particularly evident in her exhibition “pure nature”: The paintings are a tribute to the beauty of nature, but at the same time a quiet appeal to recognize and preserve its uniqueness and vulnerability.
The exhibition is on view through October 15 during the opening hours of the Karower Meiler Nature Park Center (daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in September; Mon–Thu from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Fri from 10 a.m. to noon in October).
