"...L'espressione della mia pittura ha le sue radici profonde nella mia coscienza e nell'arte mistica.
L'arte non è mai stata per me un'apparenza superficiale della realtà; è un dialogo sottile e continuo del mistero che si esprime attraverso la creazione.
Questa esperienza dei mondi interiori è trasmessa attraverso le forme simboliche come vuoti e cerchi utilizzando materiali diversi come sabbia, elementi organici trovati in natura, cera, gesso, tessuto che lasciano la mia coscienza, il mio spirito in azione spontanea.
So che l'artista creando le sue opere può guidare il « Regardeur » verso mondi spirituali, mistici intuiti, sentiti dalla coscienza interiore... È una responsabilità¡
When I start a job, a dialogue is established with the materials: they speak to me, they have their own language and prosody and from there a dialogue is combined between me and the materials.
Then begins a type of struggle between the idea that I wish to express and the constraints of the "material" form that I want to give it.
The development and changes are dictated or submitted by the materiality, the very vision of this work.
Thus everything becomes an unavoidable dialogue between the original idea, born from everyday sensation and the materials...."

As a child, Banu Grote was already painted...
In her parents' house, there were always colors and materials that fascinated her from an early age.
The inspiration of her current works extracts the artist from ancient myths and hidden recesses of the human soul.
She feels a deep connection with nature and creates a picturesque dialogue between nature and the psyche.
For Banu Grote, art has a function, it is an instrument for people and a language with which artists and viewers can exchange ideas about souls.
This is why the artist uses themes and materials such as leaves, tree bark, sand, earth, fabric or dust, associated with nature.
She lets her instincts guide her while painting, allowing her gestures, materials and subconscious to flow into the creative process.
Banu Grote has exhibited her works at exhibitions in New York, Boston (États-Unis), Switzerland and Germany ( Basel, Zürich, Baden Würtemberg and various cities in Turkey).
Banu Grote is a Turkish artist living in Germany and working internationally. Discover more by clicking here.

After my graduation from the Department of Fine Arts of Marmara University in 1991, I went to the USA to pursue my art and to deepen my view of the world.
Then I moved to Switzerland, where I am still living and continuing my art on an international basis.
Additionally I did my MAS in 2013 at the Zürich Fine Arts University (ZhdK) in Curating.