Galerie Judith Andreae
Paper Positions Basel 2018

Viktoria Strecker (born in Hanover in 1987), a student of Marcel Odenbach at the
Düsseldorf Art Academy, deals with filigree work processes with various forms of
expression of a timeless and universally valid original structure.
Her drawings, as well as their translations into objects and installations, are
reminiscent of biological systems, which are built up from repetition and often are both
macroscopically and microscopically readable.
Strecker started at the Academy of Fine Arts as a painter, but it quickly became
apparent that the question of formality and structure was more important to her than
color. "The drawing continuously accompanies Streckers work and forms the starting
point of all groups of works, however different they are in technology and material.
Compared to painting, drawing is more original for Strecker, more direct, more
definitive. Once set, it can no longer be removed or covered up. [...] The motor of
innovation in Viktoria Strecker is a peculiar combination of mania and method, of
intuition and systematics in the technical field, of surprising choice of materials and of
responding to situational conditions. "(Quotation Manuel Ströhlin)
Her drawings on paper with pen, fineliner and graphite show a depth that intervene in
the three-dimensional space.
At the Paper Positions Basel we present recent works by the young artist, who has
already been able to look back on numerous scholarships, prizes and exhibitions (for
example Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, 2018).