As a designer who is also active in the art world, I don’t see these two fields as separate worlds, but rather as intertwined practices. For me, design is the foundation of structured, visual communication—art is the space in which I play with form, color, and surface without pursuing a specific goal. The combination of the two is reflected in my work. Variations and contrasts are crucial to me when a motif takes shape.
At the beginning of my work as a painter, I was fascinated by typography—
individual typographic elements that transformed into abstract forms.
Over time, my paintings became increasingly minimalist, until any reference to the recognizable disappeared. Today, I explore the themes of silence, meditation, and
slowing down. I am driven by the question: What can tranquility look like?
Biography
Marissa Kimmel, born in 1985, lives and works in Bremen. She studied communication design at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and spent a semester abroad in 2011 studying fine arts at the Hungarian University of the Arts in Budapest.
Her work has recently been featured in several exhibitions, including the 2025 solo exhibition “Peace of Mind” at the Kunstmix Produzentengalerie in Bremen, as well as the group exhibitions “GROUP SHOW #14” (New & Abstract Galerie, Berlin), “HAAM” (Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg), and “BAAM” (Monopol, Berlin).