Rebekka Macht

Rebekka Macht is a German visual artist living and working between Berlin and Accra. Her practice, primarily rooted in portraiture and large-scale painting, explores the intimate forms of human connection, vulnerability, and care.

Her work is shaped by a simple yet unresolved question: how do we care for one another, and at what point does care reach its limits? Through fragmented bodies, gestures of contact, and figures drawn from her immediate surroundings, Macht constructs images that are both sensitive and unstable, where tenderness and tension coexist. Her paintings inhabit an in-between space, between presence and distance, attachment and separation, where relationships remain open, fragile, and often impossible to fully define.

Built through layers, from ultramarine underpaintings to extensively reworked surfaces, her compositions blur the boundary between figuration and abstraction. Deep blues, violets, and saturated magentas shift the portrait into a psychological, almost interior register, where intimacy becomes visible without ever fully revealing itself.

Her recent works engage more specifically with masculinity, motherhood, and transmission, informed by her experience as the mother of sons growing up between multiple cultural and racial heritages. In Macht’s work, care never appears as a simple protective gesture: it becomes an exposed territory, caught between love, fear, responsibility, and the social realities that move through bodies.