Dunja is a German-American artist and textile print designer, born in Cologne, Germany.
She studied art and design at the University of Applied Sciences in Hannover and has spent over 20 years creating for the apparel and home textile industries.
She splits her time between California and Europe, where she continues to explore color, form, and texture in her work.
"I approach drawing through a deliberate, minimalist lens, embracing slowness as both method and philosophy. My practice is rooted in a sustained engagement with arid and mountainous landscapes—particularly the Mojave Desert and the Serra de Tramuntana. These environments, with their shifting light and stark topographies, shape my mark-making. I draw from the quiet drama of transitions—from dawn’s stillness to midday’s brilliance and dusk’s saturated tones—to articulate form through restraint.
Each line is a gesture of reverence, distilling the monumental into the intimate. My compositions, often between abstraction and depiction, invite contemplation and evoke the psychological weight of place. Absence becomes as meaningful as presence. Through reduction and repetition, I create visual poems that resonate with symbolic intensity and emotional ambiguity. I consider the landscape not just a subject, but a state of being—defined by solitude, resilience, and deep attentiveness to the elemental."