Nina Stoeling was born in Wiesbaden in 1966. She trained as an architect at the University of Darmstad, where she graduated in 1993. During her studies she started to develop as a visual artist and has done many residencies and won prizes in her long career.
The series Capriccio, which she is currently working on, is about synesthesia, visualized music. This best describes this cycle. Drawings are created at the moment when selected musical compositions are listened to, the 'brush' dances across the page and recreates the conducting style, subjective and visual, after much thought and preparation. The ink is applied with carefully chosen plant stems, the colorful pages sometimes have to dry, time passes. The composition is listened to several times, the individual parts are condensed into an extract. It is usually chamber music without a human voice (Madrigals are the only exception). The intention is a playful transformation of the musical into a visual idea, without claiming musicological importance. The piece and the composer are the title of each drawing, but together they form a kind of Capriccio, the term defined by Girogio Vasari, the deliberate, playful disregard of rules in music, art and literature. The imagination is central and allows academic standards to be exceeded without losing their importance and bowing to artistic idiosyncrasy.
Although the artist's character is stamped on each image, they appeal to the viewer to allow their own interpretation. The associations are multifaceted and reflect the broad spectrum of humanity. If nothing remains of the music except the title, is it merely "used"? But the drawings are open to questions without a definitive answer; rather, they are the expression of the search for recognizable interdependencies in art.
This way of working is also reflected in her previous series, such as Melodic Breezes, Give us our Daily bread, x square meters of Berlin and “le Goûte de la Terre.