Martin Schwenk

Martin Schwenk (* 1960 in Bonn) deals with the theme of nature in his drawings, wall paintings and sculptures. The artist is less interested in reproducing motifs in a lifelike way. Rather, the focus is on the principle of nature: the process, the discovery of form.
Thin branches, floating blossoms, dancing leaves. With sweeping brushstrokes, Martin Schwenk paints vegetal structures and biomorphic lines directly on the wall, creating images reminiscent of plants, flowers, trees or leaves. In some places, dense greenery proliferates. Then again, graceful stalks with delicate leaves or circular buds appear, floating freely in the pictorial space. Martin Schwenk covered well over 1000 square meters of wall at Münchner Tor with floral lineations. In the corridors and  seminar rooms at Schloss Hohenkammer, you will also encounter his floral wall paintings. 

Martin Schwenk's biomorphic forms, oscillating between abstraction and figuration, rely on the imagination of the beholder. They are set pieces of a self-created world of their own, in which chaos and structure, becoming, growing and passing away coexist freely and naturally.