Page 128 - VOL 8

Caroline Scheel

Caroline Scheel, born in 1990 in Friedrichroda, Germany, with painting as her profession, is an accomplished
artist. Her artistic career began in 2008 at the Michael von Erlenbach studio in Berlin and continued from 2009
to 2015 with studies in Fine Arts (Painting/Graphics) at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In 2014, she studied
at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, earning her diploma in 2015 under Prof. Peter Bömmels. From 2015 to
2018, she was a master's student under Prof. Christian Macketanz.
Since 2018, Caroline Scheel has been working as a freelance artist with a studio in Tharandt and serves as an
art teacher at the DPFA Regenbogen Schools in Rabenau.
Caroline Scheel has participated in numerous exhibitions, including "NATUR - NENSCH" (Ev. Martini Kirche,
Sankt Andreasberg) in 2024, JUNGE MEISTER 18 (SAP, Dresden), and New Arrivals (Galerie Büffelfisch) in 2018,
as well as Art Olympia (Toshima-ku office, Tokyo) in 2015. Scholarships such as the Erasmus Scholarship (2014)
and the Travel Grant from the City of Dresden (2016) have significantly supported her artistic development.

Deep Calls unto Deep
Oil on canvas, 180x150cm, 2019-2023
The only thing that seems real is the abysmal water (cf. the titular quote, Psalm 42:8). The shifting shades of blue, the large blue circle hovering glass-like
above the water, and the two phantom-like faces evoke an amorphous expression of the supernatural. The overlapping perspectives, meanders and colorful
patterns, as well as the archaic-looking Hebrew characters ("Spirit" on the left, "Truth" on the right, the work's title in the center), incorporate the
multidimensionality of being. This creates a powerful realm of possibilities: What is true if I cannot reach the depth of the depths? Where I am not, everything
remains a dream. Wake up, turn your back. At some point, I hear a call. Somewhere the echoes touch. Your depth meets mine. When I seek truth and my
wandering spirit suddenly "grasps the world" - I feel, I respond, even to what happens elsewhere. What matters is not knowledge, but knowing attention.

128