Sabine Bachem

Born in Oldenburg (Germany)
Lives and works in Reasfeld (Germany)

Sabine Bachem is a German artist who grew up in Mexico and England. She attended the Michael Hall School in East Sussex, whose core focus is on arts and crafts. As Bachem recalls of those formative years, “This was the perfect place for me having had to learn three languages by the time I was seven and, therefore, finding language an unreliable source of communication, discovered art to be a very safe environment to reap and gather life’s secrets. From that time on, I have made art to understand. Through my work, I examine the structure of the human mind, which continually fascinates me. I search for images that on the one hand reflect the narrative, i.e. the translation of reality into a story, and on the other hand reflect the zone that appears when culture nudges up against nature. Both these states of human psychology create an art-ificial (in German‚ kunst-lich) reality. My media are painting and drawing.”

Sabine Bachem has submitted two drawings for KB17. She writes, “The portraits are images I have downloaded from social media sites that I have paired up with landscapes altered by culture in an attempt to create a narrative.”