Berit-Kristina Weiss was born in Berlin and also completed her artistic and humanities studies there.

From an early age, music and the knowledge of how it is "made" was her artistic interest, while the field of fine arts -always present through an ancestor who worked as a professional painter- did not go beyond normal craftsmanship. That changed with the leap from drawing to painting on the one hand, and on the other hand an initially playful, but increasingly seriously attempted implementation of compositional factors from the complex of music in the fine arts.

Finally, Kristina decided for an artistic path in the field of fine arts in her twenties, not least because of the physical component that painting the pictures inevitably brings with it and that pleasantly complements the intellectual level.

Nevertheless, the inner point of reference still remains the area of ​​musical analysis and an art aesthetic related to music. This movement between the arts, this ambiguity and never quite belonging, is ultimately also a central point of Kristina's artistic personality.

 

Tracing the various aesthetic parameters on which works of art are generally based have always provided her with an incentive to explore on an artistic level: the visual representation of time, dynamics, space, depth and the wide range of sensual perception. The artistic implementation change. Sometimes it is the exaggeration of representational painting into the non-representational, sometimes a monochrome, that is nevertheless extremely varied in itself, or the deconstruction of the respective material and its reconstruction or recomposition as well as the exhaustion, breaking up, disguising of forms up to dissolution.

 

For some years now, Kristina's painting has developed spatially and is complemented by objects that are strongly influenced by textiles. In this way, the canvas itself becomes part of the artistic statement, the deconstructed textile material becomes a creative medium.

 

The decorative and the quick visual satisfaction are not the aim of Kristina's work. They contain contradictions, tension and want to encourage discussion. In doing so, they do not convey any preconceived or rational content, at most they promote an aesthetic respectively sensual knowledge, which each individual must come to for itself.