Paula Kirsten, born in the 90s in Delmenhorst, Germany is an expressionist, abstract painter.
Driven by a need to give form to emotional states, her work translates the intangible into visual experience. Each painting opens a space for vulnerability and intuitive expression, allowing what is usually suppressed to rise to the surface. As a neurodivergent person facing challenges in emotional processing, the act of painting becomes a way to access and feel emotions.
Her process is defined by spontaneity and a constant negotiation with uncertainty. As a painter valuing the process over the outcome, she deliberately avoids preparatory sketches, choosing instead to surrender control; to endure and explore ambiguity and to make this tension visible in densely layered surfaces and tangled lines.
Paula’s works resist narrative closure as they are open encounters; spaces where perception becomes part of the composition and where ambiguity itself is valued as a form of knowledge. Viewers are invited to engage not by decoding but by sensing; to inhabit the complexity that lies between emotion and form.
Paula lives and works in Berlin.