My paintings are border crossings between figuration and abstraction.

Architecture is often the starting and ending point of my works.

Painting - Linocuts - Paper works

Spatial utopias, where clearly defined, bold color forms and transparent layers of color, architectural fragments, plant-like structures, and occasionally abstract figurative elements come together to explore the space provided to them on the canvas: Silke Bartsch stages visionary encounters of shapes and colors in her large-scale paintings. These forms overlap in a collage-like manner, penetrate each other, delimit, interlock, and seem to struggle for their own position - until they finally engage with each other, resolve tensions, withdraw, and arrange themselves in such a way that everything merges into a dynamic spatial harmony. Fleeting color gradients and hatching evoke the struggle for coexistence and adjacency.

Architecture or the concept of spatial arrangement and aesthetics often serves as the starting and ending point of Silke Bartsch's works. Thus, color overlays and the unfolding of utopian spaces, where organic elements find their place, are also characteristic of her paper works.

In her linocuts, the trained architect and visual artist delicately draws into the dark space, cautiously tracing the spatial dimensions with careful lines, leaving softly glowing traces in the infinite. (Gunhild Flöter_wner of the gallery subjectobject)