MEDIA-FREE ISLAND OF ATTENTION

Coming from the field of analytical medical technology, where automatisms supplanted intuition, Christiane Pieper developed a desire for her own, unadulterated form of expression. Her path initially led her to journalism: words were her strength, but editorial guidelines remained a filter. Photography brought her closer to art, until only one logical step remained: painting. On the canvas, she found the direct language she had been searching for—without intermediaries, without external influences.

Her color fields and abstract landscapes are a tribute to nature and the earth. Over the years, Pieper refined her main medium, oil, into her own haptically perceptible signature: clay soil from the garden, beeswax from the apiary, and fine orange oil create depth, transparency, and a gently glowing surface. The added materials are not an effect, but an attitude: painting that makes you feel what it is made of – and allows you to physically experience the connection to nature.

Christiane Pieper works in serial cycles in which layers of color and earthy tones condense into calm yet vibrant pictorial spaces. She understands her painting as a media-free island of attention: concentrated, decelerated, entirely in the here and now. The result is art that is not only viewed, but also experienced internally.

Today, Pieper's works are represented in various galleries, acquired by international collectors, and discovered year after year by a growing audience as a sustainable, meaningful investment. For her, this is both confirmation and a mission: authentic art creates a connection—between the work, the artist, and the viewer.

Christiane Pieper was born in Munich in 1960 and lives and works on Lake Constance.