Cordula Güdemann belongs to the group of figurative artists who, through their expressive style, cross over into abstraction without transition or reservation. In the most recent phase of her work, she reacts to the powerlessness in the face of war and persecution on the edges of Europe: aware that one can hardly capture the inexpressible in a pictorial way, she finds a non-objective pictorial language in small and medium-format gouaches as well as in larger paintings. It is characterized by an eruptive gesture of color, but is not exhausted in the furor of the commission, but also reveals through the formally accentuating brushwork and the subtle palette a painting culture that allows space for the sublime as well as for the horror, which breaks through in an only perceptible materiality. In the untitled painting from 2015, blue and green tones pile up into an acutely jagged triangle that could be interpreted as a mountain, while the flashing bright yellows and oranges and the subliminally smoldering red lend the scene a thundery mood. At the painting's core, the black and the white seem to compete for their respective greater sublimity.