Monika Kus-Picco studied at the University of Applied Arts with Adolf Frohner and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Herbert Brandl.

In her work, Monika Kus-Picco researches expired products of the pharmaceutical industry to create vivid experiences with these substances. She needs neither pen nor brush to develop her motifs.  Each work begins with an experimental arrangement. In her paintings, she recycles and repurposes substances ranging from malaria medications to psychotropic drugs and much more. From this she extracts and pulverizes her colors, which are thus closely related to life stories and fates. The pigments that Monika Kus-Picco extracts and then puts on canvas with solvents from medicine, are in this way pigments that are intended to change our lives. Invisible processes and the modes of action of medicines are visualized. The large-format images are reminiscent of cosmic processes and biochemical explosions. In her paintings, the dividing line between natural sciences and art is erased.

Hermann Nitsch about the artist: "monika kus-picco is trained by the abysses of informal painting reaching into the dyonic, by the abstract expressionism of gestural painting. she has achieved an unbelievable looseness through the profound confrontation. she devotes herself to the wide area of the landscape, which she understands according to cosmic depth. the landscapes radiate a cosmic light.... the results of monika kus-picco belong to the most interesting what contemporary art offers."

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