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Art by LiWe — Where colour breathes

A canvas here does not tell a story : it breathes. Under liwe’s hand, colour turns into heartbeat, fragility converses with strength, and emotion writes its own alphabet. Her art seeks neither explanation nor seduction ; it soothes, questions, and illuminates. In this dialogue between shadow and light, resilience takes the shape of beauty — the kind that listens, the kind that quietly heals.

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Musarthis Team

11/13/20254 min read

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Lili, known as Art by LiWe, is an artist who paints her emotions onto the canvas, rhymes her thoughts into words, and shapes her experiences into forms. Empathy serves as her guide, hope her fuel; gentle humour and powerful love structure the way she creates. In winter, when the outside world darkens, her pictorial stories contract into smaller yet more numerous formats, crossed by vivid colours or, more rarely, by darker, contemplative tones. She carries within her the luminous memory of Siberian winters — deep snow, children’s laughter, hot chocolate — which she reinvents through the greys of northern Germany. Her mind and spirit remain in perpetual motion, curious and insatiable, sometimes to the point of keeping her awake. In her works, vulnerability and strength advance together: soft colours evoke fragility, assertive hues express courage, while poems — at times melancholic or dramatic — accompany the images. Socially engaged, a messenger of small gestures that warm the heart, she finds in poetry and word collages a living refuge, an inner studio where imagination opens freely.

WHEN DID PAINTING FIRST APPEAR AS A NECESSITY IN YOUR LIFE?
A few years ago, I reached a point where my body and soul no longer formed a whole. My system collapsed, and it took deep, persistent effort to return to something close to normal life.
Beside my family and friends, art was — and remains — my salvation, my driving force.

WHAT ROLE DOES COLOUR PLAY IN YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS?
I love painting in vibrant tones. I use colour as a vessel for my feelings and thoughts. It often gives me answers when I no longer know how to move forward. Sometimes, it reacts in contradiction to my emotions and gently leads me toward another, often better, state of being.

IS YOUR ART MORE A DIALOGUE WITH YOURSELF OR WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD?
As a highly sensitive artist, I perceive everything intensely and process it in the deepest layers of my being. It is often difficult for me to separate the inner world from the outer one — and, in truth, I do not wish to, for I have never known it otherwise. My works are therefore shaped and guided by both realms.

HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN A PAINTING IS FINISHED?
As I work on several pieces at once and explore different artistic forms, I never feel empty when a work is completed. I am usually filled with quiet joy and satisfaction — and sometimes a sense of relief, when a piece has required much of my strength and emotion.

WHAT INNER STRENGTH DO YOU WISH TO AWAKEN IN THOSE WHO CONTEMPLATE YOUR ART?
I wish to awaken enthusiasm, but above all curiosity. I want people to lose their fear of contact, to open themselves, to define their emotions. I hope they find through this process more courage and confidence.

WHICH ARTISTS, LANDSCAPES, OR EXPERIENCES HAVE SHAPED YOUR SENSITIVITY?
I have always been deeply sensitive, shaped since childhood by both positive and painful experiences. A car accident, serious illness, and difficult encounters have sharpened my perception.
Yet nature, animals — I grew up among dogs, cats, chickens, and cows — as well as family, art, and poetry have touched and enriched every fibre of my being.
My father wrote poetry all his life and played guitar and accordion for many years. I was his most faithful listener, dancing with joy to his music, my whole body vibrating with the aliveness of the moment.
Among the great artists, Gustav Klimt, Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, and Paula Modersohn-Becker touch my heart and soul most deeply, each in their own way.

WHAT DOES POETIC RESILIENCE MEAN TO YOU?
I believe in poetic resilience — in the strength to not hide our fractures, but to translate them into beauty. My art does not seek perfection, but truth.
Paintings, sculptures, and poems are my attempts to hold onto what is fleeting: a thought, a moment, a breath of meaning.
Each work is an invitation to pause, to see, to feel — and to recognise, within the everyday, the presence of the poetic.

Liwe’s world rests on a profound belief: vulnerability and strength do not oppose each other; they coexist, complete one another, rise together.
Her creations stem from this inner dialogue, this alliance between fragility and courage.
Colour speaks as language, gesture as breath.
In her universe, light does not deny shadow; it moves through it, revealing a hidden beauty.

Her art seeks neither perfection nor explanation; it explores emotional truth.
Paintings, sculptures, and poems hold the ephemeral — a moment, a thought, a heartbeat of the soul.
For her, to paint is to offer the world a trace of what lives, what trembles, what hopes.
It is a way to dwell in life with lucidity and tenderness, to transform scars into poetic radiance, and to remind us that resilience, at its heart, is a quiet form of love.