Nina Hofstetter
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Nina Hofstetter (*1997) is a visual artist originally from Georgia and currently based in Germany. She holds a diploma in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. Before fully dedicating herself to art, she studied Business Administration — a background that continues to inform her practice through structural thinking, organizational awareness, and a nuanced understanding of complex systems.
Growing up between cultures and lived realities has profoundly shaped her artistic perspective. Childhood memories of myths, fairy tales, and literature intersect in her work with art theory, philosophical inquiry, and interdisciplinary research. Her practice reflects a strong awareness of craft, art history, and materiality, bridging intuitive exploration with conceptual depth.
She draws inspiration from natural cycles, dreams, individual and collective archetypes. Her work is grounded in a direct, hands-on engagement with materials, often combining drawing, painting, printmaking, and small-scale sculptural experimentation.
Her process is iterative and intuitive: ideas emerge from fragments, impulses, and sustained observation rather than linear storytelling. The resulting works capture states of being — transient, suspended, and liminal — moments without clear beginnings or endings, where past, present, and future coexist.
Through my paintings, I investigate the delicate interplay between dreams and reality, comfort and horror, surrealism and abstraction. Rather than constructing narratives, I aim to evoke states of perception and emotional presence.
Abstract concepts, emotions, and experiences materialize as figures — human and hybrid creatures, alongside roots, fungi, volcanoes, cells, and bacteria. These forms function as metaphors for transformation, interconnection, and instability.
My work explores sexuality, life cycles, and the personal and collective myths we tell ourselves. Music, addiction, and fear thread through these investigations, engaging intuition, memory, and the subconscious.
Ultimately, I perceive the Earth as an organism — a dynamic, breathing, evolving entity.
