Angelika J. Trojnarski (born 1979 in Mragowo/Polen; lives and works in Düsseldorf) examines facets of nature through an ecological, scientific, poetic study of their phenomena. Through a process centered on painting, her art articulates allegorical relationships between some of the most significant contentions of our time: humans and nature, strength and fragility, crisis and hope. She expresses a desire to understand nature by reproducing its workings, pointing to its incredible might while underscoring its increasing fragility. Trojnarski overlays raw canvases with paper fragments, employing brushwork and collage to apply materials like graphite or soot, generating a source of energy and suspense through color and contrast. The monograph offers an overview of the last decade of Trojnarski's work. Angelika J. Trojnarski 2006-2013 studies at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. 2006-2009 Painting with Jörg Immendorff, Markus Lüpertz and Herbert Brandl, from 2010 Free Art with Andreas Gursky.

Ann-Katrin Gü nzel, born 1971 in Gö ttingen, is an art historian and works as a critic, curator and lecturer in Cologne. She studied art history, Italian studies and modern history in Kassel, Siena and Cologne, then went to Florence for a research stay at the Kunsthistorisches Institut/ Max-Planck Institut with a doctoral scholarship from the Ministero degli Affari Esteri /Rome (1999) until 2004 and completed her doctorate in 2004 with a thesis on the "serateder ital. Futurists as an early action art strategy". Jurriaan Benschop is a Dutch writer and curator based in Berlin in Athens. His book Waarom een schilderij werkt was published in 2022 in Dutch; followed by the English edition Why Painting Works in Spring 2023. For his previous book Salt in the Wound he traveled across the European continent, to speak with leading contemporary artists about their work and artistic roots. In spring 2021 he worked as a writer in residence at Saari Residence in Finland.