Toni Mauersberg (b. Hannover 1989 lives and works in Berlin) is interested in the different
layers of a picture's signification: there is in the first instance what it depicts then the
larger tradition in which it is grounded and finally the conditions of its genesis. She
employs a range of painterly strategies and techniques to uncover the potentials of paintings
as a medium of understanding insight and storytelling. The question that animates her art is
how it is possible in this post-religious post-rational and post-individual age to be one's
own person. In her most recent series Pas de Deux Mauersberg investigates the complex visual
language of abstract painting which originated in part in a quest for new ways of representing
spirituality and emancipation. Combining nonrepresentational pictures with portraits she draws
attention to how both are products of making composed of nothing but color while enlarging
their interpretative ambits. The dialogue between the paintings is meant to help the beholders
chart their own course as they unlock what appear to be hidden laws encoded in pictures. Toni
Mauersberg studied Jewish studies at Freie Universität Berlin in 2008-2012 and fine arts with
Leiko Ikemura at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2009. In 2017 she was Michael Müller's
master student.
