LANDSCAPE.
MEAT.
CLOSENESS IN DECAY
Created in 2025 during an artist residency in Chemnitz, European Capital of Culture. Figures emerge and recede; bodies remain open; lines capture movement and reveal traces of the painting process. The horse and camel bear the load and convey movement, while the human body appears vulnerable and unfinished.
HOLD ME, BREAK ME | The body as a vulnerable, open state
THE BOUNDARY OF REALITY
The mountain world surrounding Garmisch-Partenkirchen is rendered in intense, artificially heightened color spaces. The familiar landscape oscillates between attraction and distance: Behind the sense of lightness, isolation and boundaries emerge.
CANDY MOUNTAINS | Landscape Between Attraction and Distance
THE BODY AS A CANVAS
The skin becomes a canvas. In the performance, color, body, and space come into direct contact with one another. The works combine body painting, photography, and staging, and explore intimacy, transience, and transformation.
SKIN COUTURE | The Body as the Actual Image Carrier MATERIAL BECOMES THE CARRIER
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Sani Kneitinger’s practice spans painting, drawing, and performative approaches, exploring the body, landscape, materiality, and transformation. In 2025, during her artist residency in Chemnitz, European Capital of Culture, she created the series HOLD ME, BREAK ME. Figures emerge and recede; bodies remain open; lines capture movement and reveal traces of the painting process. Animals and everyday objects provide orientation and bear the burden, while the human body appears vulnerable and unfinished. Painting becomes a field in which states remain in flux.
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CANDY MOUNTAINS transforms the mountain landscape around Garmisch-Partenkirchen into exaggerated color spaces. Behind the apparent lightness of the intense colors lie isolation, boundaries, and the question of how landscape becomes a projection surface for inner states.
This ongoing body of work includes paintings and drawings and is on permanent display at the SANI KNEITINGER GALERIE in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
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HAUT COUTURE brings together Sani Kneitinger’s works at the intersection of body painting, performance, photography, and space. Her early international body-painting practice—including her title as vice world champion—serves as a starting point for her exploration of the body as a temporary canvas.
The skin becomes a canvas; color, body, and space merge in a performative act. In collaboration with cabaret artist Monika Gruber, a project was created that combined language, stage, and painting. Other works, such as *nahLaut* and *Bilderflut*, expand upon this field. In these works, bodies appear as projection surfaces for intimacy, abundance, emptiness, and dissolution.
