Quotes

QUOTES FROM CRITICS, WRITERS & HISTORIANS

A very mysterious and multilayered artwork – actually an ideal basis for meditation.

David Engels Historian of antiquity about Metanoia. 2022

Rather than extending the frontiers of the perceptible, Poulain expends the threshold between light and dark, day and night, waking and sleeping. Thereby she stands in the tradition of the dark side of German Romanticism. 

Ingolf Patz. Tagesspiegel. 2022

With its spatial constructions and its formations of lines, Sky Lines is reminiscent of Russian avant-garde artists, such as Malewitsch, Rodtschenko and Popowa (also of objects of Brancusi) – a suprematist film poem of its time.

Egbert Hörmann. Berlinale Selection Committee. 2014

The rumbling seductive soundtrack is like something from a David Lynch film, and it creates a sensation you can lose yourself in. 

Filmfestival Münster about Prelude. 2011

Nadine Poulain’s works ultimately culminate in one point of reference: Their goal is not to depict what something is, but rather to make something altogether visible.

Prof. Dr Sabine Flach. Art historian. 2011