FIFTY SHADES OF GREEN

Perceiving 50 shades of green is no problem for the human eye. In total, it can distinguish far more than 2 million colour tones. However, it is best at recognising the finest nuances of the colour green.

Julia Sossinka's love of colour and the desire to immerse and lose herself in it is the driving force behind her artistic work.

Added to this she likes experimenting with different materials.

Her artistic exploration of paper as a material did not begin directly, but developed in a roundabout way. The starting point was painting with ink on paper. The first flat collages were created from discarded works, which gradually expanded into the space - right up to walk-in installations. Today, the artist no longer uses discarded works as a basis, but rather painted, stable watercolour paper with shellac ink, from which she tears out shapes and strips or creates entire structures in one piece. What particularly fascinates her about paper is its lightness, flexibility and versatility. Paper has an airy quality and at the same time is robust enough to create expansive, stable installations.

Space plays a central role in her work, as each installation develops in direct interaction with the place in which it is created. The artist describes this process as a kind of dialogue with the space. Her installations are always temporary - they exist for a certain period of time before being dismantled and reborn in a new form. The material is used again and again and is constantly evolving. This way of working corresponds to an organic process that has no fixed beginning or defined end.

Her oil paintings also take on a three-dimensional component through a heavily impastoed application of colour.

Julia Sossinka draws her inspiration less from art history or cultural trends than from nature itself, whose essence captures growth and transformation.

She was born in Hattingen NRW, Germany, and lives and works in Berlin.

At the Academy of Art, Düsseldorf she was master student of Prof. Markus Lüpertz.

Since 2012 she exhibits in galleries, art associations and museums, including many solo exhibitions.

Various scholarships and sponsorship awards have taken her to Switzerland, France, Iceland and Greece, among other places.