Sarah Hischemöller: Presence Without Resolution

Fragility as a Spatial Condition

Sarah Hischemöller – Painting, Sculpture & Printmaking

Sarah Hischemöller lives and works in Germany and is currently studying Art & Art History. Her practice moves between painting, sculpture and printmaking, structured by an ongoing interest in perception and memory as relational conditions rather than fixed narratives.

Across media, her work refuses stable resolution. Figures dissolve into gesture, surfaces resist closure, materials retain the trace of intervention.

Sarah Hischemöller - untitled - Image Courtesy and provided by the artist

In painting, bodies appear as unstable presences, neither fully formed nor entirely abstract. Layering, repetition and abrasion function not as style but as structural decisions.

The image becomes a field in which perception and memory collide. In sculpture, clay and paper operate as responsive partners. The material records pressure, collapse, stitching, weight. Presence emerges as something temporary, contingent on encounter.

Hischemöller’s installations such as Bude (2025) extend this logic into space. Paper draped over tables and stools does not illustrate vulnerability; it stages it. The work does not ask to be interpreted. It positions the viewer within a fragile situation where perception becomes active

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Sarah Hischemöller - Installation view****-****vases , 2025 - clay, yarn, needles - Image Courtesy of the artist

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Sarah Hischemöller - Bude - Paper, Yarn, Table - Image Courtesy of the Artist

Sarah Hischemöller - Acrylic, Oil on Canvas - Image Courtesy of the artist

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Installation of the exhibition Michael Beutler at Z33 , Hasselt, 2025. Photo: Renaat NijsNadine Karl: Epiphenomenon. Installation, 2025. Curation: Aileen Treusch. 2025. Galerie3ap Frankfurt. Photo: Joëlle Pidoux. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie3ap