In her artistic work, Jennifer Oellerich shifts in the media of sculpture, drawing, photography and installation. She experiments with and exceeds these limits as well as those of science in utilizing exceptional materials. For her, rain and the marks of different weather phenomena becomes the starting point for a reflection on the existential conditions of our existence as well as for the limits of knowledge of the outside world, for example in meteorology and astronomy, but also in quantum physics.
On surfaces prepared with bitumen paint rain is captured, collected and archived: the traces left by the rain act as a "pencil of nature" and show similarities with images of galaxies. Rendered in ceramics, they evoke associations with images of lunar landscapes or electron microscopy images. The design language is consequently borrowed from science. The result is a synthesis of ancient, elemental material with actual pictures and viewing habits: unique graphisms from drop’s traces.
(T. Sauerlander, 2012)
Jennifer Oellerich, born 1974 in Cuxhaven, studied at the Berlin University with Tony Cragg and Florian Slotawa, followed by a semester in Israel. Since 2009, she participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both at home and abroad. She lives in Berlin.
