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Andrea Grützner | Arkadia

Du bist Orplid, mein Land! / You are Orplid, my land!, 2023, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
Du bist Orplid, mein Land! / You are Orplid, my land!, 2023, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
1/23
Die zarten Tiere der Psyche. Vorboten hier einer Musik / Tender Creatures of the Psyche. Heralds of a Music Yet to Come, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
Die zarten Tiere der Psyche. Vorboten hier einer Musik / Tender Creatures of the Psyche. Heralds of a Music Yet to Come, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
2/23
Den Zenith immer weiter / The zenith, ever further, 2023, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Den Zenith immer weiter / The zenith, ever further, 2023, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
3/23
In Momenten aufzuckenden Wetterleuchtens / Moments of Flickering Heat Lightning, 2025, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
In Momenten aufzuckenden Wetterleuchtens / Moments of Flickering Heat Lightning, 2025, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
4/23
Am Strande der Sirenen / By the Sirens’ Shore, 2023, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Am Strande der Sirenen / By the Sirens’ Shore, 2023, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
5/23
Der verklärten Himmelslust ein irdisches Widerspiel / An earthly echo to the transfigured rapture of heaven, 2023, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Der verklärten Himmelslust ein irdisches Widerspiel / An earthly echo to the transfigured rapture of heaven, 2023, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
6/23
L’oiseau mouche, 2023, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
L’oiseau mouche, 2023, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
7/23
Eurydikes Wiederkehr / Eurydice’s Return to Light, 2022, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Eurydikes Wiederkehr / Eurydice’s Return to Light, 2022, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
8/23
Das A und O eines Tages / The Be-All and End-All of a Day, 2024, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
Das A und O eines Tages / The Be-All and End-All of a Day, 2024, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
9/23
Dorado, 2024, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium) 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
Dorado, 2024, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium) 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
10/23
Den Zenith immer weiter / The zenith, ever further, 2023, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Den Zenith immer weiter / The zenith, ever further, 2023, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
11/23
Kraft zu neuer Kontemplation / Strength for Contemplation Anew, 2025, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
Kraft zu neuer Kontemplation / Strength for Contemplation Anew, 2025, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
12/23
Amouröser Zweikampf / Amorous Duel, 2025, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
Amouröser Zweikampf / Amorous Duel, 2025, Chromaluxe print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 138 x 92 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP
13/23
Verhoffte Farbenwirrnis I / Desired chromatic turmoil I (Diptych), 2022, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium) 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Verhoffte Farbenwirrnis I / Desired chromatic turmoil I (Diptych), 2022, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium) 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
14/23
Verhoffte Farbenwirrnis II / Desired chromatic turmoil II (Diptych), 2022/2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Verhoffte Farbenwirrnis II / Desired chromatic turmoil II (Diptych), 2022/2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
15/23
Ein Raunen lief durch die Menge / A Murmur Passed Through the Crowd, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Ein Raunen lief durch die Menge / A Murmur Passed Through the Crowd, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
16/23
Üppige Kaskaden / Lush Cascades, 2022, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Üppige Kaskaden / Lush Cascades, 2022, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
17/23
Ein freudig aufjauchzender Tumult / A Rapturous Uproar, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Ein freudig aufjauchzender Tumult / A Rapturous Uproar, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
18/23
Emanationen eines ekstatischen Geistes / Emanations of an Ecstatic Spirit, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Emanationen eines ekstatischen Geistes / Emanations of an Ecstatic Spirit, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
19/23
Gewissenhafte Kleinmalerei eines atemberaubenden Naturvorganges / Meticulous Depiction of a Breathtaking Natural Phenomenon, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Gewissenhafte Kleinmalerei eines atemberaubenden Naturvorganges / Meticulous Depiction of a Breathtaking Natural Phenomenon, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
20/23
Sich fernhin zu verlieren in der ambrosischen Nacht / Losing Oneself in the Ambrosial Night, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Sich fernhin zu verlieren in der ambrosischen Nacht / Losing Oneself in the Ambrosial Night, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
21/23
Das Satyrspiel blieb gleichfalls nicht aus / Nor was the satyr play left out, 2023, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Das Satyrspiel blieb gleichfalls nicht aus / Nor was the satyr play left out, 2023, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
22/23
Im Banne von dem, was da kommen sollte / Under the Spell of What Was Yet to Come, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
Im Banne von dem, was da kommen sollte / Under the Spell of What Was Yet to Come, 2025, Chromalux print (dye-sublimation print on aluminium), 60 x 45 cm, Edition of 4 + 1AP
23/23

For the series ‘Arkadia’, Andrea Grützner photographs details of a park meadow together with transparent dichroic film placed among dry blades of grass and other plant elements. This produces psychedelically tinged image compositions whose luminous streaks of colour evoke iridescent liquids, tropical heat, or hallucinatory landscapes. At times, the images appear almost artificially generated. Within them, alongside real insects, chimaera-like forms emerge, suggesting animals and mythical creatures.

The photographs are taken in the Neukladow Estate Park on the Havel near Berlin, once the site of Johannes Guthmann’s Musenhof. Guthmann – an art historian, writer, and collector – established the estate as a retreat and salon for figures from Berlin’s early-twentieth-century cultural scene. Among them was Max Slevogt, whose luminous, atmospheric paintings celebrated nature through ideals of classical beauty translated into the language of Impressionism. Together, Guthmann and Slevogt cultivated an almost mythic image of Neukladow in their conversations and writings, describing the landscape in exaggerated Arcadian terms – as the Garden of Eden, an earthly paradise, or Arcadia itself.

Andrea Grützner’s work explores how we see and feel spaces, where time appears as traces, layers, and shifting atmospheres. Working mainly with photography, she creates images that move between documentation, abstraction, and transformation. Her work is guided by questions of memory, orientation, and the instability of fixed realities, where familiar spaces slowly begin to shift and change.

A key impulse for Arkadia was her participation in the Pleinair Symposium of the Sommerakademie Neukladow in 2022.

After studying communication design in Konstanz, Andrea Grützner (*1984, Pirna, GDR) completed a master’s degree in Photography and Media at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. Her work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions. She received the Stiftung Kunstfonds working grant in 2024, during which she continued developing Arkadia. She lives and works in Dresden.

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