MAXI VENUS
Why only choosing one artistic medium,
when there are so many possibilities to experience your creativity in different ways?
When I don’t have the motivation to paint, then I start making music, write poems or make crazy photoshop self-portraits or maybe just do a new tat or dance with my ropes.
In all these moments you experience yourself and your emotions in a different way. For me one thing will not replace the other. And I could never decide what I love doing more.
Workspace at home
In the back on my wall, you can see some of my photoshop artworks.
My favorite painting at the moment.
Aquarell and ink : I love a good old fountain pen (I don't know how you call it in english; the one where you can change the tip)
what defines me as an artist
Maxi Reiner is an extremely versatile artist who expresses herself through a comprehensive range of creative media. Her forms of expression extend from painting and photography to performative videos, dance, spatial installations, and even original music composition. Additionally, tattooing is also among her artistic practices.
However, her primary medium is digital image editing.
At the age of 17 in 2017, she created her first altered self-portrait using Adobe Photoshop. Although Maxi learned the Adobe programs conventionally during her graphic design training, she posed the question: „What happens when you use the tools of the program in new and creative ways to create new artworks from photographs?“
The fascination with photography has accompanied Maxi for a long time. She sees images of real people as having a special closeness to the viewer compared to, for example, paintings. Through the use of Photoshop, she has developed her own editing techniques to create works that depict unrealistic scenarios but are based on images of reality. This creates an alternative dimension of perception. She has been perfecting these techniques for almost eight years, at the young age of 23.
In the context of digital art, where the question of analog representation often arises, Maxi constantly experiments with new ways to present her art in space. Currently, she presents her works in nets hanging from tensioned ropes. This idea was inspired by Shibari, and Maxi asked herself: „If on the body, why not in space?“ Using intuitive and performative methods, she fills various spaces with up to 200 meters of polypropylene rope. She starts her net with an anchor point on the wall and moves slowly through the space. This not only allows her art to be observed, but viewers literally enter her world.