Niklas Wittenberg's work encompasses painting, drawing, objects and installation. Working within the Romantic tradition, he creates highly personal environments where a murky ambiguity is privileged over the bright clarity of day.
Despite these Romantic preoccupations, however, the artist approaches the visual non sequitur with the energy of a snapshot. A delicate drawing might be shown alongside a found object he has crudely reworked, or photographs preoccupied with an airy take on dislocation.
His approach can be claustrophobic, abstracted with self-absorption or erupting without warning into a muted sensuality. His unabashed lyricism - concerned with rapidly shifting contexts, disintegration and visual saturation - is as 21st-century as channel-surfing.