Collection: Aya Onodera

Aya Onodera's work breathes, lives, moves and reacts within itself. The combinations of light and shadow, color and spatial depth are like organic matter. She represents the intangible, she makes the invisible visible.

Dark blue color mixes with bright moments on the canvas, color seems to literally flow over the picture carrier and captivates the viewer. In her series of ›Sea Veins‹, the artist processes the events of the earthquake in the Tohoku region in 2011, which moved and affected her deeply. The colors become three-dimensional, start to move, envelop us and yet spread a meditative calm. They manifest themselves intensively and all-encompassingly, becoming expansive, while the works give the impression that they are representing the light - as if they were actually glowing.

Her series ›Fragments‹ manifests itself in light, pastel pink tones, golden-yellow moments and pearls applied to the canvas to form warm image bodies. They move between color worlds that become abstract and the traceable traces of the artist, who inscribes herself on the canvas with oil paint. "I sink into a painting with my whole body, I find myself in a perfect sanctuary that is not disturbed by anyone. This thought comes to me quite naturally when I paint," the artist describes her creative process. She draws inspiration from her surroundings and memories of various places with which she has special associations, and thus transforms the fragments of her experiences into a picture.

Aya Onodera was born in Japan in 1984, where she began studying design and art in Tokyo. She was a guest at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she studied under Prof. Frank Badur and Prof. Burkhard Held from 2008 to 2011. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 2005.

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Artist portrait: Courtesy of the artist