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 the California and Europe, where she continues to explore color, form, and texture in her work.
Dunja approaches drawing through a deliberate, minimalist lens, embracing slowness as both method and philosophy. Her practice is deeply 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, offer a visual and emotional lexicon that informs her mark-making. From the pastel stillness of dawn to the harsh brilliance of midday and the saturated tones of dusk, she draws from the quiet drama of these transitions to articulate form through restraint.
Each line in her work functions as a gesture of reverence, distilling the monumental into the intimate. Her compositions, often suspended between abstraction and depiction, invite contemplation and evoke the psychological density of place. In her rendering of space and silence, absence is as evocative as presence. Through a meditative process of reduction and repetition, Dunja constructs visual poems that resonate with symbolic intensity and emotional ambiguity. Her practice positions the landscape not merely as subject but as a state of being—marked by solitude, resilience, and a profound attentiveness to the elemental.