Barbara Djassemi alias Renaissance.soul.art combines art history with digital curiosity.
The art historian, who studied in Germany and Italy, creates multi-layered visual worlds under the name Renaissance.soul.art - sometimes humorous, sometimes poetic, sometimes deliberately irritating. Her works range from classic art collages to digital experiments and AI-supported new creations.
She deliberately refuses to be pinned down to one genre. Sloths appear in baroque scenes, espresso and cakes become pictorial symbols, and pop culture meets art historical depth. She uses artificial intelligence as one of many tools to break up iconic visual worlds, recombine them and bring them into the present.
She finds inspiration in museums, books - and good coffee. "Many of my pictures start with an espresso. Or a quiet conversation with a sloth."