Art in the Baltic resort of Rerik - the exhibition "What moves me" by Nicole Franke in our local museum. An indoor activity for art lovers.
Come to the opening of the exhibition on June 8th in the local history museum and admire the art of the artist Nicole Franke. You will find the exhibition in the Rerik local history museum until 01.08.2025. The opening hours are as follows:
- Tuesday 10:00 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 17:00
- Wednesday 10:00 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 17:00
- Thursday 14:00 - 17:00
- Friday 10:00 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 17:00
- Saturday 14:00 - 17:00
- Sunday 14:00 - 17:00
"The purpose is not to become a different person, but to see who I am in order to live truly and authentically and be happy, the way creation meant me to be."
I have been painting for as long as I can remember. In the silence of nature, in the forest, in my grandparents' garden, I felt free and safe at the same time, connected with nature.
I encounter this inner peace in many of my paintings and I try to bring it into the world.
For me, art is a way of exploring the truth, beyond the apparent. In a world full of created needs and illusory worlds, in which authenticity must be subordinated to standards and conformity, truthfulness is lost.
We need to remember our innermost healing connections to creative being. We are not separate from the "all-one-ness".
In quiet moments, the world holds its breath and we feel close to the source, integrated into creation.
What is reality, what is truthfulness? Do we lead a grateful life?
I have always been inspired by people such as C.G. Jung, a great mystic, Brother David Steindl-Rast or S.N. Goenka.
But I have also been taught and touched by many other people I have met in the course of my life. Everything strives for happiness and inner peace.
But what prevents people from being happy?
By immersing myself in unconscious states, in collective and personal issues, in creation and death, I am always fascinated and amazed by life and how everything is basically interwoven.
As in the small so in the big. I carry hope within me, I carry love within me, as well as the suffering and all the tears, the joy, the silence and I throw all of this onto the empty surface that spreads out before me as a grateful and completely neutral projection surface.
And so, as if by chance, small islands of carefree strokes and colors emerge at the beginning of the painting. They slowly merge with the introductory motif and interweave with it to form a composition.
The surroundings, which initially made no claim to "being something", increasingly become a continuing reality.
The intuitively created space not only reflects reality, but completes it and gives it soul.
It is a special concern of mine to make it possible to experience something healing and peaceful, something reconciled with the introductory theme.
