About the work

Conny Maier is a Berlin-based artist whose work explores core questions about human nature, power structures, ecology, dominance, and the fragile balance between control and chaos.

Known for her vivid, large-scale paintings, Maier creates unsettling scenes inhabited by distorted, hybrid figure, part human, part animal that reflect on themes of dominance and submission, balance and instability, and the boundaries between the human and non-human.

Her off-kilter figures and inter-species entanglements reflect a world on edge,offering raw meditations on vulnerability, power, and the final phase of the Anthropocene. Through striking contrasts, such as dominance and submission, stability and collapse, the human and the non-human, Maier asks not only what must end, but what might begin.

Maier’s paintings, visceral, uncanny, and emotionally raw, speak to a world at the edge of collapse. By embracing discomfort, absurdity, and excess, she asks pressing questions about the systems we inhabit and what kind of future we might still imagine.

Conny Maier

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