The Greene Naftali Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the show of young Berlin-based, German artist Amelie von Wulffen, on Friday, February 20. While she has shown throughout Germany, this will be the first New York solo exhibition of von Wulffen’s collages and photographs.

The large-scale works on paper, some of her largest to date, depict public and private spaces, reflecting fragments of personal experience. Combining documentary and fictional elements, her collage technique fuses photography, painting, and drawing into dream-like hybrid scenarios. While von Wulffen’s personal memories pervade the work, such as the upper-middle class German furniture of her post-WWII upbringing and remnants of the John Travolta idolization of her youth, the pastiche technique can also function to illuminate one’s own experience.

Like memory itself, the overlaid images are blended and confused, and sometimes result in gaping holes. Seventeenth century paintings are flanked by fax machines, and cinematic self-portraits dissolve into the hazy sunsets and brambly forests of German Romanticism. The patchwork technique and double exposed photos confuse interior and exterior spaces, creating overgrown interiors, like ancient ruins. The density of allusions makes room for political, romantic, ironic, and sentimental readings, all stemming from the history and experiences inscribed on each individual viewer.

Amelie von Wulffen studied at the Kunstakademie in Munich, and now lives and works in Berlin. In Germany, she is represented by Galerie Ascan Crone. She has shown at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Kunstverein in Hamburg, and in 2001 was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Braunschweig. Her work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in “Clandestine” curated by Francisco Bonami and is currently on view in the 3rd Berlin Biennale.