German artist Conny Maier explores fundamental questions about human nature, ecology, dominance and control. The off-kilter figuration in Maier’s paintings, coupled with the inter-species entanglements that her work depicts, articulate precarity and vulnerability as elemental states of being. Her painterly reflections on polarities like dominance and submission, equilibrium and instability, the human and the non-human take an unflinching look at the final throes of the Anthropocene, asking not only what should come to an end but what kind of new day might dawn.
Conny Maier lives and works in Portugal. She was selected as one of the three recipients of Deutsche Bank’s prestigious Artists of the Year Prize in 2021. Her recent expansive solo exhibition ‘Beautiful Disasters’ was curated by Udo Kittelmann at the Langen Foundation, Neuss. Her first monograph was published on the occasion of this show. Her work has recently been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at venues including Art Basel Unlimited 2023, Basel; De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg; Palais Populaire, Berlin; MUDEC, Milan; and at Museum Frieder Burda, Baden Baden.
