Dorothee Diebold | They stand at the foot of the mountains. And there she embraces him, weeping., 2021

For HOT MESS, Dorothee Diebold is exhibiting one painting with acrylic and pigments on shaped canvas.


The artist’s work explores the entangled relationship between human beings and the environment which surrounds them – asking whether a ‘pure’ nature exists at all or if the idea remains a coercion of will. Is there a natural world beyond our cultural perceptions or have we created an artificial landscape formatted by our desires of omnipotence? 

Whether nature exists also includes the question of whether there is a reality. Dorothee explores the different levels of perception of reality with the means of painting, its possibilities and expansion. The intermediate state of these levels of reality can also be seen in her photographs and videos.


Dorothee Diebold (b. 1988, Offenbach am Main) studied at the HFBK Hamburg, Bezalel Jerusalem and HFG Offenbach. Her last solo exhibitions were at Davide Paludetto Gallery, Turin (2022); Grezgorzki Shows Berlin (2021); Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (2020); Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (2019) and Kunsthal 44 Moen, Denmark (2019). She took part in several group shows, among others: at Shaufenster Berlin (2022); König Galerie Berlin (2021); HOT MESS at Napoleon Komplex Berlin (2021); Atelier Flamme Paris (2020); Berlin Masters (2018); Frankfurter Kunstverein (2015) and at Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2013). In 2020 her catalogue Biomorphic Painting was published by Wienand Verlag. During her studies she received a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and last year she had an artist residency at CCA Andratx Mallorca.