In her cycle PortLand, Rubica von Streng unites the art-historical genres of portrait and landscape into organic pictorial spaces in which subject and environment exist in constant interplay. With her self-developed “Arpeggio” painting technique, she applies delicate, transparent layers of color that interweave interior and exterior spaces, generating a continuous dialogue of form, color, and perception. Flora and fauna merge within the images, reflecting the complex relationships between humanity and nature.
Philosophical, scientific, and societal questions flow subtly into the painting process and shape a visual language that also engages with physical states of matter and the concept of entropy. In the series Seasons of PortLand, Rubica von Streng explores processes such as transience, vitality, and cyclical renewal, translating them into condensed pictorial spaces.