Christa Näher’s paintings and drawings draw from both historical and personally experienced pasts. Existential primal fears, nightmares, and emotions such as pain are processed within her works. Her gaze into the dark and the negative stems from a profound inner blackness with which she came into the world. Hybrid creatures—part human, part animal—werewolves and centaurs, are recurring motifs in Näher’s paintings, acting as mediators between worlds and reflecting her belief in the superiority of nature over humanity.

Over the course of her artistic practice, she has developed a unique visual language that fuses form and vision in a genuinely distinctive way. The ambivalence of the living, the polarity of light and darkness, are constants in her body of work. With her layered and enigmatic imagery, Christa Näher reaches deep into the collective consciousness of our time. Her otherworldly paintings evoke existential emotions and confront the viewer with an intense and intimate sense of who they are. More