Viola Bittl

Viola Bittl is an abstract painter, based in Frankfurt, Germany. In her paintings she addresses the conceptual clarity and reduced formal language of modernism. She questions the historical boundaries of abstraction, and develops a pictorial aesthetic that renegotiates geometric biomorphic forms and combines them with art-historical references.

„It´s hard to say how my stay in Stöðvarfjörður influenced my work, cause one month is quite a short period of time.

But I can say, that the time in Iceland’s Eastfjords, being able to work in the middle of breath-taking natural landscape and focusing on new works on paper, as a way to accompany my thoughts on my journey, was a big gift.“