ICUL CTION meets ART A C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w Claudia Grünig Lives and works in Germany Photographs give the impression of representing reality. The medium of photography enables me to locate inner states in "reality". What interests me in my work is the paradox of "inventing photographs". I use the individual elements of reality as a new beginning in terms of content. In doing so I create an emotional memory image. An interview by , curator photographic works, in my painting various and , curator quite different, sometimes contradictory elements of reality combined with each other in a realistic painting style. In 2015, the Hello Claudia and welcome toARTiculAction: idea of locating surreal events in a medium we would like to invite our readers to visit more committed to depiction led me from https://claudia-gruenig.jimdofree.com in painting to photography. In painting, order to get a wide idea about your artistic everything is possible. It is not committed to production, and we would like to start this reality, but to perception. In it, wondrous, interview with a couple of questions surreal representations are no surprise. regarding your background. You have a Photographs, on the other hand, give the solid formal training: you studied Painting impression of depicting something. I use this at the University of Applied Sciences for Art notion in my photographic works to place and Design of Cologne, and you graduated the illusion in "reality". In doing so, I use the as a master class student with Prof. Dieter individual elements of reality as a new Kraemer. How did those formative years beginning for the content and composition influence your evolution as an artist? of my digital staging. Moreover, how does yourcultural I have always worked in many "seemingly" substratumdue to your work at very different artistic contexts. They include Trickfilmstudios Steinmetz und Cologne my work as a photographer and painter, my Cartoon direct the trajectory of your current work in animated film and animation, and artistic research? my work as a stage and costume designer. I Claudia Grünig: I originally come from consistently pursue the notion that all painting, which still has a strong influence on artistic manifestations of one and the same my work today. So there are many elements person are naturally interrelated. The forms in my photographic works that show this of manifestation are different. However, the origin. Just as I still realize it today in my act of creation is always the same for me in