Home Story and Studio Visit at PARTMENT, 2021
Wesel & Bochum, Germany
I visited multidisciplinary artist Maike Barbara Maier at her home in Wesel near the Dutch border. She lives there in an old house from 1920 with a large garden, which has become a place of peace and relaxation for her. In summer she enjoys to invite friends for a pleasant and delicious evening. The Interior design focuses on a mix of natural vintage furnishing, which she has given a second life, and interior classics.
After my visit at her home, I accompanied Maier to her studio PARTMENT in Bochum. Fascinated by the aesthetic of the 1960s, she enjoys the fashion and sporty elegance of this decade. Maier describes her art as ranging from casual and sporty, to exaggeratedly exciting – like the drama of old action comic panels. Whereas her bold and abstract acrylic paintings are primarily “intuitive and free”. She also creates works using new, experimental techniques, such as those expressed in her sponge paintings. In this way, her paintings reveal personalities like the Mona Lisa in a new way.