My lino collages develop a complex thematic space. such as the outrageous demolition of a listed office building, the Osram headquarters in Munich. This was built by my father the architect Dieter Ströbel together with Henn Architekten and equipped in their absence. With the help of a commercial office for the deconstruction of historical monuments, first the facade and then the entire interior of this “landmark” (citation from the city’s building councilor Elisabeth Merk) was systematically deprived of its status as a listed building. The monument was demolished and turned into concrete money by Ortner and Ortner (formerly Hausrucker and Co, fellow artists from Vienna!). This lino collage (60cm x 40 cm, lino print on Japanese paper, after colored hand print, edition 10/2022), tells about it in epic width.

About the linoleum works:

at the beginning of the first lockdown, 2020 I had “still quickly” ordered a roll of linoleum online:

Article No. 23, Berlin red. The roll 2 meters wide, 5 meters minimum order quantity was delivered to the “curb”, unfortunately as so often these days, the shipping company had not called. The truck was just suddenly there, spitting out the heavy roll of precious linoleum.

Somehow I made it to the sidewalk and began rolling up, measuring, dividing, cutting and hauling away in the middle of downtown under the incredulous eyes of neighbors and passersby.

That was my survival treasure, driving on sight and carving for time.

I had always made linoleum prints, but never exclusively, it was like a pull. A friend of mine of many years only said that between the wars and after 45 many women artists had discovered linoleum as a medium for themselves. It came out of demolition houses, among rubble and ashes.

I install linoleum prints on many different image carriers and always spatially.