Frauke Materlik
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I
Frauke Materlik is an artist, gardener, and landscape architect whose work explores the perception, visualization, and transformation of space. Through a multidisciplinary artistic practice that combines photography, multi-part installations, and narrative structures, Materlik investigates landscapes and infrastructures, along with the overlaps and boundaries that define them.
Her projects center on themes of fragility, belonging, shelter, and the enduring search for home. Translating these ideas into photographic series, light boxes, gardens, and performative interventions, she creates what she describes as fictional landscapes suspended between materiality and immateriality. Her work reflects a deep sensitivity to formal relationships within the surrounding environment and functions as an ongoing negotiation within space itself.
As part of her artistic process, Materlik often analyzes and deconstructs the familiar, dissecting fragments of history and reality before recontextualizing them through her visual language. Her work seeks to create experiences that reveal hidden connections between objects, spaces, and forms of matter—relationships that often remain beyond the reach of language or rational logic.