Immaterial Phenomena

Jorinde Voigt (b. 1977) is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin. She has exhibited extensively all over the world and has had many museum presentations in America. Most recently, she was commissioned to create murals for the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston in 2019, and then for Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, in 2022.

Since her earliest years, through the medium of drawing, Voigt has devised a complex and highly developed system of articulating immaterial phenomena as visually engaging compositions. Suggesting the appearance of scientific diagrams or musical scores, these seemingly abstract arrangements encompass a very precise range of references.

Voigt’s intuitive and expressive works evolve from rigorous meditative and observational processes that seek to capture the complexity and velocity of her environment through abstract configurations and systems that depict the intersection of one’s inner world, emotions, and memory with external conditions. Constantly engaging questions of perception, sensation, and presence, the artist has progressively expanded her expression beyond the medium of drawing to experiment with painterly elements, collage, design, and music.

At present, Voigt has an exhibition of new sculptures and drawings at David Nolan Gallery in New York. She was recently interviewed about her relationship to Texas; her new works, which will be shown at Dallas Art Fair; and her vision.