Stadtbild soft core

A complex cityscape as a reflection of inner spaces? Exterior spaces mirror inner experience. Berlin’s streets and their rough façades become projection surfaces for personal experiences. In the paintings, architecture, memory, and the present overlap; the boundaries between inside and outside, begin to blur. The gaze focuses on details that are barely noticed in the hectic pace of everyday life.

Deborah Dammasch works with recycled canvases whose earlier layers of paint remain visible. The traces of these family heirlooms reappear fragmentarily in the urban landscapes, anchoring individual history within collective space. These overlays play with urban density as much as with biographical snapshots. Personal safe spaces, familial places: the interior turns outward, while life on the street intrudes into private pictorial spaces.

The luminous, high-contrast color scheme, shaped by nocturnal impressions, reflections of light, and zones of darkness, creates an atmosphere between protection and exposure. The works ask where belonging emerges and where it begins to fracture. The aim of the project is to make Kreuzberg and Neukölln visible as permeable, emotional urban spaces. They are places where biographies overlap and are constantly renegotiated. In this sense, the painting itself becomes an urban space: layered, open, contradictory, and alive.