There are people you meet and instantly share a rare sense of resonance. When I first met Kati von Schwerin about fifteen years ago, it was exactly that.

All the more meaningful, then, to have had the chance to portray her during one of her exhibitions — a moment suspended between observation and exchange. A former master student of Markus Lüpertz, she moves effortlessly between art, music, and literature, refusing to be contained by any single discipline.

Her work lives in the space between intellect and emotion, philosophy and instinct. She questions what it means to live truthfully — to look, to feel, to create — and in doing so, she holds a mirror to all of us.

To capture her amid her own universe was to witness a mind and spirit deeply committed to reflection and rebellion, beauty and doubt.

Kati doesn’t merely make art — she is art in motion.

Experience her art here