Martin W. Ohlerich

Art was never part of a plan.

For many years I worked with technology, processes and creative projects — music, writing, entrepreneurship and the question of how ideas become reality.

Painting came later. First as an experiment. Then as a counterbalance. Eventually as something that stayed.

My works are created without a reference and without a fixed destination. The starting point is often a color, a texture, a grid or a spontaneous decision. As the process unfolds, control and chance begin to alternate. Layers are built, painted over, revealed, reduced or deliberately disrupted.

I am interested in the moment when material, movement and decision turn into an image. Sometimes loud and colorful. Sometimes quiet, reduced and almost monochrome. The process is just as important as the finished result.

I work abstractly because I am less interested in what an image clearly shows. I am interested in what it evokes.

Each work is a trace of this process. Open to personal thoughts, memories and interpretations.