Christina Zurfluh, born in Zug (Switzerland) lives in Vienna. The central idea behind Christina Zurfluh's layered paintings is to create the material on the canvas in large masses and in many layers (and concepts) and then, by selectively exposing the complex layers, to create an image that repeatedly refers to its materiality and layering. We can read the picture in a geological or often archaeological sense, as it were. Like models that illustrate or simulate the tectonic shifts of the earth's layers. The layers have specific properties or sometimes also carry art-historical references and the artist works on these in a way that makes the complex functioning between the layers visible. If these layers carry painterly references, then these are not only addressed, but are an intrinsic part of the picture. The selective uncovering, i.e. the actual artistic process, has more of a moderating function between the layers. But this moderation creates order and allows new insights to emerge at every moment. The fact that Zurfluh not only creates surfaces in her paintings, which can under certain circumstances simulate depth, but actual depth and layering, adds an actual historical dimension to the surface of the painting, which can have both the history of image production and the history of painting as its theme. Christina Zurfluh has extracted the self-consistent individual pictures and compositions from the process of image layering and developed her own coherent group of works within her oeuvre, which deals primarily thematically and experimentally with the relationship and effect of color, form and space.