Nina Hofstetter

This series was created for the annual exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg as well as for a group exhibition in Freiburg.

Working on A3 paper became both a limitation and a liberation. The format demanded concentration. It resisted monumentality and instead invited proximity — a distance close enough to breathe with the drawing.

During this period, I drew obsessively. Graphite, charcoal, ink, colored pencils — whatever was at hand became a tool for thinking. The works are immediate, process-driven, often intuitive. They capture fragments: bodies, gestures, creatures, symbols, states of tension and silence.

Drawing, for me, is a form of direct translation. It allows thoughts and impulses to surface before they solidify into narrative. On paper, doubt remains visible. Corrections stay. Pressure marks remain. The surface records hesitation as much as certainty.

These works do not aim for resolution. They are traces — of movement, of searching, of becoming.