Lying, sitting, squatting and standing, I repeatedly mark my body in space with spray paint – from the smallest to the largest movements. A drawing emerges on the floor, a network of colored traces that speaks of physical states. The 2023 version was created on the roof of the Modern Gallery of the Saarland Museum.

2023
Performance, three-channel video installation, 4K, loop
Modern Gallery of the Saarland Museum
Camera and sound: Philipp Majer

In a forty-five minutes flowing transition with the drummer and percussionist Martial Frenzel, we, artists Natalie Brück and I try to find moving images that embody a close – yet complex – relationship between the two of us. 

August 22, 2022, 7 PM
Improvised Movement Performance and Percussion Improvisation
Martial Frenzel, Natalie Brück & Paulette Penje
No One Belongs Here More Than You
- A Performance Festival
Saarländische Galerie, Berlin
Photo credits: Aleks Slota Photography

Public space is significant for the quality of life in cities and enables equal participation for everyone. In my work, I examine a striking transportation infrastructure in Berlin, defying all norms. I use an atypical movement sequence to reference the local architectural pattern. The work is an exaggeration of existence, and I deliberately choose public space as my stage.

September 07, 2023, 7PM
Performance in Public Space
BETON Berlin, Goerdeler Steg, Berlin
Photo credits: BETON Berlin

I spit beetroot juice onto the wall and, before it touches the floor, try to lick the juice off the wall with my tongue. This creates a counterpart to which I relate. In the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, I'm showing five analogue Spuckfiguren (spitting figures); with the videos, this totals to ten. I repeat the performative act of painting with face, body, and mouth ad infinitum and digitize it; the spitting figures are created again and again.

2022
Performance, Painting, Video installation
Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
LA AIR
Camera and sound: Philipp Majer
Photo credits: Joas Strecker

33-day performance at Alice-Salomon-Platz in Berlin-Hellersdorf. Every day, I walk the outermost boundary of the square: with the idea of ​​walking around the square as many times as necessary until the streets that cross it no longer separate it.

June 23 - August 5, 2021
Performance in Public Space
Alice-Salomon Platz, Berlin-Hellersdorf
Initiative Draußenstadt der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Bezirk Marzahn-Hellersdorf von Berlin
Photo credits: Aleks Slota Photography

The video shows a series of daily video performances. I film myself from
the surveillance camera screen in the U-Bahnstations. By spontaneously opening up a space for action, I create the possibility of subversion. When repetitions are not carried out precisely, mistakes arise. This
in turn creates productive shifts that lead a life of their own and are reinventions.

June 23 - August 05, 2021
Surveillance camera performance
Berlin

Since the birth of my child in November 2018, I've been filming the sky every day. A continuous archive is being created, and with it the complex question of what constitutes archiving work, an archive. What am I actually documenting? New works emerge from the daily performances and the video archive. The collection grows daily.

since 2018, ongoing
Longterm Project, Performance, Video, Series
Photo credits: Philipp Majer

I spray blue paint into the sky. A camera circles around me, and behind me is the panorama of the World Heritage Site, on whose roof —the filter of the sinter plant— where the action took place.

2023
Videoperformance, -installation
World Heritage Völklinger Hütte
Photo credits: Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, Felix Krebs

Using hair mousse, I trace my body contours on the floor. The lines overlap and become smudged depending on my movements. I explore the forms from funny isolations (2021/23). I created paintings for this purpose, which, in addition to the paint, also contain a QR code for each work, linking the audience to the short video performances.

2024
Videoperformance, Painting
DIEresidenz, Die, France
Pas d'espace sans heurt