“As a woman, born in Eastern Europe just 4 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, I have a fascination with Western Culture. My parents, brought me up with the hope, that if I watch enough Disney and play with Barbies, I will be just as rich, beautiful and free as the characters in The Bold and the Beautiful. Unfortunately, instead of turning into a Barbie doll, I turned into an artist with paint under my nails.”

“Because I do not fully belong to Western culture, I can look at it with a certain aesthetic distance, with a mixture of awe and doubt.” 

 “I have often been moved by the urge to preserve certain objects and images in which I find beauty, but which are just packages of product, advertisements or soap opera stills. I paint them on oak with the technique of the Flemish Primitives, so in 500 years, when aliens land on the deserted Earth, they can still be able to enjoy this otherwise transient beauty.”

“I want to create a museum of our civilization in which low and high culture are intermixed without distinction. Images and objects are misunderstood and put out of their usual context. Similar to the way we thought for centuries that all Greek sculptures and temples are white, while they were fully covered in bright colors.”

“The museum is built by beings who do not really know or understand our civilization. They have excavated fragments of baroque interiors and billboards without being able to make a distinction between them, so they hang them next to each other as if they belong together. They do not know what we give value and importance to, for them a wrap of a energy bar is as valuable as a dollar bill.  And in reality, the value of things is indeed something we have negotiated with each other and something which we are conditioned to perceive.”