Maike Brautmeier from Münster (1981 *) combines her interest in visual and performing art in the medium of photography and creates her own theater in her colorful, sometimes elaborate productions. Sometimes it is a drama - sometimes a comedy, sometimes both at the same time. She always plays visually and mentally with clichés and contrasts. She studied art with a focus on photography at the AKI Enschede and spent an Erasmus semester in Valencia, Spain. Her education as a fashion nerd before her studies, as well as her work as a prop master at the Stadttheater Münster (2012 - 2014) still have an important influence on her artistic work. In addition to her photographic work, she also organizes and curates exhibition projects, in which she also brings together artists from visual and performing arts (eg at the Reset Festival 2009 - 2014, Münster's Fotofolio 2010, Fotourist 2007 at the old freight yard and 2013 in the Stadthausgalerie, Münster and HBF Art in public space around the main station in Münster). The Masterschool Documentary Film 2018 at the Film Workshop in Münster has recently been dedicated to the medium of film.

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Old ideas and images are merged with modernity.
Both classic and current social themes are presented in a new way. Traditional paintings become modern, photographic compositions.

COLOR PANELS - Photographic group productions by Maike Brautmeier

In the photographic long-term project "Farbtafeln", Maike Brautmeier explores interpretations and effects of colors.
In elaborate group stagings, reference is made to the human being in the space, the togetherness, the "one under the other" as well as the "against each other".

To each color many small scenes in an overloaded overall production are brought together on a blackboard. Selected rooms, the interior with all props and costumes are included in the symbolic composition. The artistic interpretation of the respective color deals with the ambivalence of human being.
The multi-layered interpretation of colors serves as a reference grid and reflects our constructed realities.

One aspect is the interaction of the presentation of the color charts, as the pictures communicate with each other. The statements and effects are changed and / or intensified by combining the colors.

At the same time, opposing aspects, which may have a hue, disappear in the totality of the composition. The apparent individuality of the actors is resolved by the uniformity of color. The individual goes down in color and mixes with the overloaded surface.