Theresa Möller

Theresa Möller is a dreamer with a sharp eye and brisk, precise, and determined gestures. The psychedelic delirium we dive into appeals to colours that are thrown at us. Only then the shapes appear. Nevertheless, the inspiration is not naturalistic. The artist's shades are sweet mallows, powdery blues, fruity oranges and sea green. The forms emerge in the details: leaves, branches and trunks are revealed if you focus. Sometimes, the mineral pigments remind us of those summers when the sky becomes purplish. In other artworks, turquoises become cold as they recall this strange and timeless force that awaits in silence, in the shade. Architectures occasionally reappear through horizon lines and geometric forms created by Nature. The patterns look alive but are not human. We are facing some sort of cosmoramas devoid of protagonists, where the strength and the energy of the shapes build peculiar and eerie worlds for us to wander around. The mystery and fantasy contained in Theresa Möller’s paintings do not encourage narrative. They intentionally leave room for feelings, and we must take time to regard them closely. The artist’s role here is to sublimate the invisible. The sunny tones of her palette are powerful and appeal to the subjective senses of the viewer. On Theresa Mölller’s canvases, the world we live in seems to be afflicted by a lethargic and incurable tragedy that defies a fast-paced and voracious pop culture. Her art may appear like a delusion but sums up the major contemporary concerns of our time.

Theresa Möller (*1988) lives and works in Leipzig and Montréal. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst) and received her diploma in painting and fine arts graphics in 2018. Before, she studied illustration and painting at the HAW Hamburg. Since then, she has received several grants and had residencies at Künstlerhaus Eckernförde (Germany) and Fonderie Darling (Montréal, Canada). Theresa Möller has participated in many international exhibitions in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Switzerland, and the United States. - Theresa Möller grew up in the German port town of Hamburg near the North Sea. In her early years, influenced by the rich and diverse architecture of the city, she painted abstracted building sites (“Baustelle” in German), developing a visual vocabulary with strong vanishing points. The architecture gradually gave way to a whole new genesis from an inner world, in which nature howls and tormented waters evolve throughout a surrealistic temporality, and figurative elements can only appear if you summon them. This transition of patterns in her paintings occurred when the artist moved to Leipzig in 2014.