press: Lara Werth featured in Rheinische Post

We are pleased to share that Lara Werth has been featured in Rheinische Post in an article by Helga Meister, highlighting her unique practice that bridges contemporary drawing and professional martial arts. Based in Düsseldorf, Werth combines her work as a visual artist with international experience in kickboxing and Muay Thai, having trained and competed in countries such as Thailand, Mexico, and France. The article offers insight into Werth’s dynamic working process, in which discipline, endurance, and movement from martial arts directly inform her large-scale works on paper. Her compositions merge urban structures with natural and imaginary elements, unfolding in energetic, seemingly spontaneous visual worlds. Meister’s article emphasizes the close connection between Werth’s two disciplines, describing her work as a continuous exploration of tension, motion, and the search for balance between control and release. In this context, we are also delighted to announce the upcoming duo exhibition Shifting Fields with Jacqueline Hen, where Werth’s work will be presented. The exhibition explores perception not as a static condition, but as an embodied, spatial process.

Read the full article here: Rheinische Post

„I want the paper to be full. Canvas feels too conventional to me; it absorbs everything and yields to every mark. Paper, on the other hand, hangs directly on the wall: it confronts the space and the viewer immediately. As an artist, I bring the values from sports into my work—discipline, perseverance, and motivation. The power and rigor I apply in training also apply to my art.“