Ella Maria Gross

Between perception, memory and imagination.

Ella Maria Gross's painting navigates the tension between perception, memory and imagination, with the female figure often at its core. Her work emerges where the visible meets the remembered, the experienced meets the imagined — where reality, dream and imagination submerge into one another. She is drawn not only to the symbolism of dreams but to their process: the constant transformation of images, meanings and inner states, as boundaries between inside and outside, body and environment, subject and world begin to dissolve, opening new spaces of possibility.

Gross does not treat the image as a document of a fixed state, but as a living, permeable space in which memory, perception and imagination continually encounter and renegotiate one another. This gives rise to visual worlds that make the fleeting and the changeable tangible, lending visual form to the often silent processes of inner movement.

Trained at the HfBK Dresden, she moves between fully resolved oil canvases, sepia underpaintings and quick studies on paper. Her work has been shown across Germany, as well as in Rome and Paris.