Mermaid, 2025, Acrylics and Oil on Chipboard, 170 x 40 cm

Alice Bischof (* 1992, Munich) is a painter based in Berlin, Germany, whose work originates from inner visions encountered in states between waking and dreaming. Rather than depicting external reality, her paintings matter-realise perceptual experiences accessed with closed eyes: light in darkness, symbolic configurations, and scenes that operate prior to linguistic articulation.

Bischof’s practice is structured around tensions between form and flow, containment and creation, structure and surrender. Recurring motifs such as starfish, diamonds, mermaids, and columns function as visual signifiers within an interior landscape, constituting elements of a symbolic system associated with liminal modes of perception.

Her work is characterised by luminous chromatic fields emerging from dark grounds, figures situated between legibility and dissolution, and holographic tonalities that operate as perceptual thresholds. These formal qualities articulate an inquiry into how inner experience, perception, and relationality can be rendered visible. Bischof understands painting as a third space — neither exclusively internal nor external, neither solely authored by the artist nor completed by the viewer — within which personal and collective inner worlds intersect. Her images propose subject-subject and subject-object relations not as fixed binaries, but as dynamic relational fields.

The matter-realisation of fragile and elusive inner visions requires a negotiation between delicacy and structural integrity. This negotiation is reflected in her material choices: translucent oil and fragile pastel chalks applied to resilient supports.

Current Work

In her current work, Bischof consolidates the conceptual trajectory of her practice through a sustained, ritualistic inquiry into connection. 

Her work addresses where and how connection may coagulate within contemporary conditions, what constitutes flexible yet reliable forms of relation to places, people, and life itself, and how relationality might exist beyond the binaries of separation and unity. Rather than offering resolution, the work generates surfaces that remain simultaneously protective and permeable, stable and open.

Other website: www.neuerealitaet.art