press: Lara Werth featured on Westart (WDR)
Lara Werth featured on WDR Westart now available in the ARD Mediathek.
A 2024 graduate of the Düsseldorf Academy, Werth constructs dense, multi-layered montages on paper. Using marker, chalk, oil stick and ink, she develops dystopian urban landscapes interwoven with fragments of nature.
Alongside her artistic practice, Werth is a professional fighter, a former kickboxing world champion, now focusing on Muay Thai.
Drawing on studies with Siegfried Anzinger and Katharina Wulff, Lara Werth develops a pictorial language that interweaves expressive condensation with constructed realism.
While Anzinger’s practice is rooted in gestural intensity and a physically charged painterly immediacy, Wulff unfolds a logic of narrative spatial construction in which figure, space, and social situation are treated as carefully composed arrangements.
Werth’s work operates within this field of tension: between impulsive mark-making and calculated pictorial order, between fragmented urban imagery and figurative density. Her montage-like compositions translate these poles into a distinct system of layering, compression, and narrative openness.
Werth’s works are currently on view in Shifting Fields at the Düsseldorf gallery and are also included in the gallery’s presentation at Art Düsseldorf, Booth H23.
