Karen Haase     

     painting - performance - installation

The beginning and the end of my art work is the improvisation, the playing and the knitting together of material, pictures and clothing.

First comes the action, then the idea and reflection!

My figures, paintings and lyrics develop out of doing. Doing without thinking! Acting on instinct!

The playing becomes serious and the earnestness takes a coffee break!

What moves me in my art work is the tightrope walk between game and earnestness, easiness and heaviness, shallowness and deepness. One is interfering the other. Everything exist and nothing persist!

The source of my art work is painting. It is the basis on which I can build on.

Performances and videos give me the possibility to paint movable pictures, to be inside the pictures for experience and acting.

Throuhgout my installations the picture becomes three-dimensional.Mostly they are part of my performance.