My current installation @Stammelbachspeicher
▪️there will be goodbyes▪️
and
▪️there will be tomorrow▪️
These installations carry fragments of personal memory.
Materials from my parents’ house and objects from my childhood became part of the work — traces of places, emotions and lived experiences that continue to resonate through time.
Together with the documentary film about my installation, this creates a bridge between the past and my current artistic practice. The works speak of loss, change, tenderness, and moving forward.
Even when it hurts, we know this:
there are goodbyes that leave us aching,
there are tears,
but there is always a tomorrow.
Again and again.
#ContemporaryArt #InstallationArt #MemoryAndMaterial #AbstractArt #ManuelaKarinKnaut
My current installation @Stammelbachspeicher
▪️there will be goodbyes▪️
and
▪️there will be tomorrow▪️
These installations carry fragments of personal memory.
Materials from my parents’ house and objects from my childhood became part of the work — traces of places, emotions and lived experiences that continue to resonate through time.
Together with the documentary film about my installation, this creates a bridge between the past and my current artistic practice. The works speak of loss, change, tenderness, and moving forward.
Even when it hurts, we know this:
there are goodbyes that leave us aching,
there are tears,
but there is always a tomorrow.
Again and again.
#ContemporaryArt #InstallationArt #MemoryAndMaterial #AbstractArt #ManuelaKarinKnaut
It is always an extraordinary feeling to know that my work will soon become part of a remarkable and carefully curated collection.
No matter how often it happens, I never get used to that moment. It fills me with immense gratitude, pride, and a deep sense of humility.
#LuxuryArt
#MonacoArtScene
#ArtCollectors
#ContemporaryArtCollector
#CollectingArt
It is always an extraordinary feeling to know that my work will soon become part of a remarkable and carefully curated collection.
No matter how often it happens, I never get used to that moment. It fills me with immense gratitude, pride, and a deep sense of humility.
#LuxuryArt
#MonacoArtScene
#ArtCollectors
#ContemporaryArtCollector
#CollectingArt
What if the works that stay with us most are the ones that never tried too hard?
“Pebbles” was painted six years ago — yet it could just as easily have been created yesterday. Looking at it now, I realize how much of what still matters deeply to me was already present in this work: the looseness, the sense of play, the openness to experimentation, and the courage to leave space untouched.
I have always been interested in what happens when a painting is allowed to breathe.
Not everything needs to be filled.
Not every gesture needs to explain itself.
This piece remains a reminder that freedom, restraint, and spontaneity can exist at the same time.
A work I wanted to share with you again.
#ContemporaryPainting #AbstractArt #MinimalAbstraction #artcollector
What if the works that stay with us most are the ones that never tried too hard?
“Pebbles” was painted six years ago — yet it could just as easily have been created yesterday. Looking at it now, I realize how much of what still matters deeply to me was already present in this work: the looseness, the sense of play, the openness to experimentation, and the courage to leave space untouched.
I have always been interested in what happens when a painting is allowed to breathe.
Not everything needs to be filled.
Not every gesture needs to explain itself.
This piece remains a reminder that freedom, restraint, and spontaneity can exist at the same time.
A work I wanted to share with you again.
#ContemporaryPainting #AbstractArt #MinimalAbstraction #artcollector
There is often so much discussion about the “right moment” to introduce children to art.
But perhaps the better question is: why would art ever be separated from life in the first place?
Art is not something distant, reserved for museums, adulthood, or special occasions.
Art is life.
It is color, rhythm, emotion, texture, curiosity, movement, atmosphere, memory, and imagination. It surrounds us long before we have words for it.
There is no ideal age to begin experiencing original art.
No perfect date on a calendar.
A baby looking at shifting colors, organic forms, layered surfaces, or soft contrasts is already responding emotionally and intuitively. Even the smallest children absorb spaces deeply — the mood of a room, the harmony or tension of colors, the feeling created by shapes and materials.
Original art in a nursery can become more than decoration.
It can create warmth, calmness, stimulation, wonder, and emotional resonance. It quietly becomes part of a child’s visual language and early sensory world.
And perhaps equally important: parents spend countless hours in these rooms too. In moments of exhaustion, tenderness, silence, and care, art can also offer them something meaningful — a sense of beauty, grounding, inspiration, or emotional connection during the intimate rhythms of everyday life.
Children do not need to “understand” art academically to benefit from it.
They simply need to live alongside it.
Maybe that is where the relationship with art should begin:
not as a lesson, but as a natural part of being alive.
There is often so much discussion about the “right moment” to introduce children to art.
But perhaps the better question is: why would art ever be separated from life in the first place?
Art is not something distant, reserved for museums, adulthood, or special occasions.
Art is life.
It is color, rhythm, emotion, texture, curiosity, movement, atmosphere, memory, and imagination. It surrounds us long before we have words for it.
There is no ideal age to begin experiencing original art.
No perfect date on a calendar.
A baby looking at shifting colors, organic forms, layered surfaces, or soft contrasts is already responding emotionally and intuitively. Even the smallest children absorb spaces deeply — the mood of a room, the harmony or tension of colors, the feeling created by shapes and materials.
Original art in a nursery can become more than decoration.
It can create warmth, calmness, stimulation, wonder, and emotional resonance. It quietly becomes part of a child’s visual language and early sensory world.
And perhaps equally important: parents spend countless hours in these rooms too. In moments of exhaustion, tenderness, silence, and care, art can also offer them something meaningful — a sense of beauty, grounding, inspiration, or emotional connection during the intimate rhythms of everyday life.
Children do not need to “understand” art academically to benefit from it.
They simply need to live alongside it.
Maybe that is where the relationship with art should begin:
not as a lesson, but as a natural part of being alive.
“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”
— Jackson Pollock
He took the words right out of my mouth.
Honestly? I had no idea where this was going.
I started with color. Then more color.
At some point I stopped thinking
and just… kept going.
▪️Creating Covers▪️ is what came out of that. Not what I planned — something way better.
That’s the part nobody tells you about painting:
the best moments happen when you get out of your own way. 🎨
I used to fight that feeling.
Now I just follow it.
And this Wednesday I’m really glad I did. 🔥
What’s something you made that surprised you?
Tell me in the comments — I’m genuinely curious. 👇
#CreatedCovers #PaintingOnCanvas #ArtistsOfInstagram #JacksonPollock
“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”
— Jackson Pollock
He took the words right out of my mouth.
Honestly? I had no idea where this was going.
I started with color. Then more color.
At some point I stopped thinking
and just… kept going.
▪️Creating Covers▪️ is what came out of that. Not what I planned — something way better.
That’s the part nobody tells you about painting:
the best moments happen when you get out of your own way. 🎨
I used to fight that feeling.
Now I just follow it.
And this Wednesday I’m really glad I did. 🔥
What’s something you made that surprised you?
Tell me in the comments — I’m genuinely curious. 👇
#CreatedCovers #PaintingOnCanvas #ArtistsOfInstagram #JacksonPollock
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am. I am. I am.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
There are feelings that have no words. Only color. Only movement. Only the moment your brush hits the canvas and something raw spills out that you didn’t even know was living inside you. Blue like 3am. Blue like the space between exhale and the next breath. Blue like finally letting go of something you’ve been holding for years.
This is what painting feels like when you stop trying to make it pretty — and just let it be true.
#SylviaPlath #AbstractArt #ContemporaryPainting #BluePainting #ArtStudio
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am. I am. I am.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
There are feelings that have no words. Only color. Only movement. Only the moment your brush hits the canvas and something raw spills out that you didn’t even know was living inside you. Blue like 3am. Blue like the space between exhale and the next breath. Blue like finally letting go of something you’ve been holding for years.
This is what painting feels like when you stop trying to make it pretty — and just let it be true.
#SylviaPlath #AbstractArt #ContemporaryPainting #BluePainting #ArtStudio