First shown 2025 | Galerie Met | Berlin: Crossmedia Installation, paintings, drawings, objects, video, nature materials, spatial design, collab with RAER Scents , performance Angelika Puff, sound Mira Lu Kovacs

FIELDNOTES Work group Crossmedia Installation


The work observes fragility and discrepancy of our inner and outer self. We all have memory boards and from time to time, things cut deep into them as we wander through our fields. It leads us through unclear memories, fear, sickness, sensitivity and insecurity. Every matter around us can be a mirror of own and human traumas. Fields of memories, fulness, emptiness, fertility, drought. Fields of love, losses, battlefields … The exhibitions concept was to create three rooms that capture the systematic origins of trauma, fear, and the process of entering it after and after during aging and reflections. All works represented metaphorical notes on our personal memory boards. Most of the fears, memories and traumas where connected to the visible appearance of material, nature, and animals and used as symbols and direct reference to us humans. Installation view of the corridor before the last room of the exhibition. Visitors had to climb the letter to reach the last nailed up door to the last room. A last hay sack as metaphor for the trauma, that is self-feeding, but at the same time not enough to let live, no water, emaciated horses … The atmosphere was enhanced by sound and scent in collaboration with Mira Lu Kovacs, singer and language artist and a room scent, created with Berlin niche house RAER Scents under Ted Rohn.

I only wanted to fly with the birds once before November comes, but instead they all died. Caged birds see flying as a disease. The hay is too dry to get us all through the winter.
— Norman Maýn, from Fieldnotes

Selected Works


2025, Fine art pigment print, graphite, coal, acrylic, pigments, emulsion, textiles, fake roses, coal, wood, ink, industrial paint, ash, soot, paper, cut-outs, hair, hay, wool on handmade cotton paper, 170 x 120 cm, Unique

Untitled (Die Lichtung)

Untitled (Herde ohne Hirte/Ich als Hund)

2025, inkjet print, graphite, coal, acrylic, wool, wood, soot, paper paper scraps, bandage on cotton paper, 36.8 x 28 cm, Unique

Untitled (Nach dem Verlust)

2025, Inkjet print, graphite, coal, acrylic, wool, wood, soot, textiles, industrial paint on matte fibre paper, 36.8 x 28 cm, Unique

Untitled

2025, Dead wood, fieldstones, bast fibre, bird nests, black ink, bird replicas, hay, Size variable

Don’t be fooled by the Sunshine

2025, Construction rubble, dead plants, pigment print, graphite, coal, acrylic on multiplex board, variable, Unique

Untitled (Dissoziation)

2025, Clay, glue, paste, acrylic, pastel chalk, acrylic, industrial paint, lime, ash, soot, bast fibre, bird nest, hair, textiles, fake roses, tree parts, hay, ink, pigments, emulsion on stretched canvas, 185 x 185 cm, unique

Untitled (Dürre)

2025, Antique bathtub, pigment print, graphite on multiplex wood board, 170 x 80 x 165 cm, unique

Empty Fields – Roomspray

Collab with RAER Scents, 250ml Organic fragrance as room spray for the exhibition, over 15 ingredients based on raw materials like Nargamotha, Frankincense and Patchouli …

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