For artist Barbara Nies, originally from Berlin, creating art means contemplation and reflection on incoming impressions and images.

Starting from the energetically charged painting of Berlin in the 1980s and 1990s, the focus was originally on exploring the power of color and form, their mutual conditionality and correspondence in the painting process, and the thematization of viewing habits. By delving into the fields of association that emerged during the painting process and their counter-images, a reduction to an almost monochrome style of painting emerged in the 1990s, which described the silence, vibration, and transparency of sensibilities with the most finely tuned color values possible.

Dealing with categories such as stability/fragility and constancy/processuality became increasingly important, and in engagement with the work of artists such as Christian Boltanski, Rosemarie Trockel, and Eva Hesse, spatial designs also became more and more prevalent.

Photography (as a means of "preserving" individual moments) and video (as a means of exploring temporal processes) became important media in this context.

Recently, the theme of belonging has come to the fore, and there has been an increase in works that deal with the metaphor of landscape or architecturally preformed outdoor spaces and that explore the subject of dwelling and emotional location.